Dying Earth is a subgenre of science fantasy or science fiction set in the far future, at either the end of life on Earth or the end of time itself, when the laws of the universe begin to fail. Its dominant themes include world weariness, lost innocence, idealism, entropy, the heat death of the universe, and the exhaustion or depletion of resources, tempered by a hope of eventual renewal; a related subgenre set in the distant future of entropic decay is known as entropic romance.
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Notable ExampleThe Dying Earth by Jack Vance 1 Defining TraitDeals not with catastrophic destruction but with the entropic exhaustion of Earth, giving it a melancholic tone 1 Defining Trait Connections
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1. Dying Earth (genre) - Wikipedia
Section: Genre, paragraph on Jack Vance
The collection had several sequels and gave the subgenre its name.
Section: Genre, first paragraph
in that it deals not with catastrophic destruction, but with entropic exhaustion of Earth.
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Dying Earth is a subgenre of science fantasy or science fiction which takes place in the far future at either the end of life on Earth or the end of time, when the laws of the universe themselves fail.
Subgenre Of: Science Fantasy, Lead paragraph
is a subgenre of science fantasy or science fiction
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