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The Champion of Garathorm
The Quest for Tanelorn
The avatars of the Eternal Champion - Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon, Erekose and others - must pool their swords, their enormous wisdom and courage, to bring about the Conjunction of the Million Spheres, the most mighty change in the entire Multiverse. For the great war between Law and Chaos is about to reach its Zenith, when the fates of a whole universe will be decided on a single swordstroke... and the tragic tale of the Eternal Champion just may be doomed to repeat itself, unknowingly, on and on, through all the cycles of the vast Multiverse until the end of Time itself…
The fourteenth omnibus volume, complete and fully authorised, of Michael Moorcock's great fantasy sequence, The Tale of the Eternal Champion; the supreme achievement in modern imaginative literature. 'The inventive, image-sparkling quality of Moorcock's writing is there on every page' New Statesman
'[He] writes like an angel. A mod, apocalyptic angel' Daily Telegraph
'This column intends to collect the set, and urges you to do likewise' Time Out
'A figure of revolutionary fervour of the British literary world for nearly 30 years' John Clute' Observer
'A master fantasist' Tribune
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)
Behold the Man Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ - a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, then who will take his place? 'Glogauer is as eloquent an ambivalent figure as SF has coined, swimming through self-doubt and illusion to the core of religious belief. This is the most accessible of Moorcock's best work'. Gregory Benford
'The Time Machine as Wells would never have dreamed it ... In its psychological portrait of Glogauer, Behold the Man is a superbly written mainstream novel concerned with how character is determined by event and vice versa’ Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree
'He is so easily able to move from contemporary realism to futuristic fantasy; both worlds share the colour of dreams and follow an imagination that conceives the world in symbolic terms ... (he has) a mythic, romantic sense of life' Peter Ackroyd, The Times
'Can gleefully give you all the formulae of every kind of story there ever was, because he's tried and tested all of them ... the master story-teller of our time' Angela Carter
'Here is a writer of rare talent who has stumbled on an idea so dangerous and brilliant that scarcely any living writer could do justice to it' Guardian
'Writes like an angel. A mod, apocalyptic angel' Daily Telegraph
'One of the most original authors of our time' Sunday Telegraph
'Exhilarating and disturbing' Observer
'Brilliant, fantastic talent!' Sunday Times
'A great novelist ...original and ambitious ...resolutely British' The Modern Review
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)
Gloriana Or The Unfulfill'd Queen Winner Of The World Fantasy Award
A Golden Age of peace and prosperity has dawned. Gloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia. Maintenance of the delicate balance that keeps her empire thriving falls on Montfallcon, her Chancellor, and on his network of spies, in particular Quire, cold-hearted seducer and murderer. When Quire falls out with Montfallcon, he conceives a plan to ruin Gloriana, destroy Albion, and end the Golden Age.
The masterly evocation of Gloriana’s secretive palace and the superb realisation of a vibrant London make this one of Moorcock’s most powerful and memorable novels. `Outstandingly written . . . a remarkable book, teeming with extraordinary life and complexity.’ Peter Ackroyd, Spectator
`Spellbinding . . . the image of Gloriana’s vast maze of a palace is an original and genuine invention: Sunday Times
`Vastly entertaining . . . a labour of love, and a triumphant one’ William Gibson
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)
Elric Elric of Melnibone, the haunted, treacherous and doomed albino sorcerer-prince, is one of the great creations of modern fantasy. An introspective weakling in thrall to his soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, he is yet a hero whose bloody adventures and wanderings lead inexorably to his decisive intervention in the war between the forces of Law and Chaos.
This volume brings together The Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer, the two earliest books of Elric’s adventures, and confirms Michael Moorcock’s place as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time. Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others shaped modern fantasy. 'Extraordinary and exuberant' Angela Carter
'If you are at all interested in fantastic fiction, you must read Michael Moorcock. He changed the field single-handedly: he is a giant' Tad Williams
`A work of powerful and sustained imagination which confirms Moorcock as the most important successor to Mervyn Peake and Wyndham Lewis... The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author’s remarkable talents’ J.G.Ballard
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