to: navigation , search John Holbrook Vance (born August 28 , 1916 ) is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Five Gold Bands (1950) 1.2 To Live Forever (1956) 1.3 The Languages of Pao (1958) 1.4 The Dragon Masters