The Eyes of the Overworld [SEP] series
The Eyes of the Overworld
The Eyes of the Overworld is a fantasy fix-up novel by American writer Jack Vance, published by Ace in 1966, the second book in the Dying Earth series that Vance inaugurated in 1950. Retitled "Cugel the Clever" in its Vance Integral Edition (2005), the book features the self-proclaimed Cugel the Clever in linked stories.
The components of the fix-up were five short works published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" from December 1965 to
of the novel "The Eyes of the Overworld" in 1966 without any prior magazine appearance. "Cil", the second chapter, was later published as a stand-alone novelette in 1969 in the collection "Eight Fantasms and Magics". "The Eyes of the Overworld" has seven chapters because the last in sequence of the separately published novelettes, "The Manse of Iucounu", has two sections, which become two separate chapters in the book.
1. "The Overworld", "F&SF" December