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Tag: Michael Moorcock

Light touch, heavy themes

I inhabit a timeline in which the definitive version of Michael Moorcock’s huge fantasy sequence is The Tale of The … More

A Nomad of the Time Streams, Michael Moorcock, Oswald Bastable, The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar, The Tale of the Eternal Champion, The Warlord of the Air

Warts and all

I’m on a long-term project to read all of Michael Moorcock’s classic fantasy-fiction, which comes together under the general rubric … More

Flux, Hilary Bailey, Jerry Cornelius, Max von Bek, Michael Moorcock, Philip James, Sailing to Utopia, The Black Corridor, The Distant Suns, The Eternal Champion, The Ice Schooner, The Tale of the Eternal Champion

One face in a thousand

In Rhetorics of Fantasy, her important structural taxonomy of fantasy literature, Farah Mendlesohn identifies four key types of fantasy, defined … More

Corum, Corum Jhaelen Irsei, Farah Mendlesohn, Joseph Campbell, Michael Moorcock, Rhetorics of Fantasy, The Eternal Champion, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The King of the Swords, The Knight of the Swords, The Queen of the Swords, The Swords Trilogy, The Tale of the Eternal Champion

Energy and entertainment

My long-interrupted project to read or re-read all of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion books has at last been resumed, after … More

Hawkmoon, Michael Moorcock, The History of the Runestaff, The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God's Amulet, The Runestaff, The Sword of the Dawn

A humane document

Mother London was something of a surprise to me, inasmuch as it’s something I needed to read, something that should … More

Michael Moorcock, Mother London
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