Earth is a decadent world older than memory, the bloated red sun soon to wink out forever.
In his unique, sardonic prose, SF grandma.
Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu\'s manse where he means to exact a comprehensive and memorable revenge, before the old red sun goes out forever.
Iucounu the Laughing Magician has for the second time magicked Cugel the Clever across the Ocean of Sighs, to faraway Shanglestone Strand.
Earth is a decadent world older than memory, the bloated red sun soon to wink out forever