Michael Moorcock

//Michael Moorcock
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  • Book V of The Dancers At The End Of Time. At last!  A self-proclaimed saviour has arrived at the End Of Time, home of the deliciously decadent and frightfully bored. Unfortunately, the last thing they need is a messiah. Especially one like the Fireclown - who offers such unlikely gifts as Madness, Pain and Doom. Still, he does provide a welcome touch of amusement and - dare we say? - conflict to the final days of Man.  Indeed, that impregnable spinster, Miss Mavis Ming, is more than a little charmed by his attention - despite the destruction he might wreak on one and all. Such is the way of love...Cover art by Robert Gould. Published in Britain under the title of The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming.
  • The sequel to Behold The Man. The new divine tragedy of Karl Glogauer - surrogate-Christ - begins in the unlikely locale of Derry and Toms' roof garden. He continues his quest through time and space, searching for Harmony and (if the two are not the same) Freedom From Fear. Cover art by Peter Goodfellow.
  • A miscellany of articles, experiences, people, six new short stories and a long novella. In this volume: Short Stories: Casablanca; The Frozen Cardinal; Hanging The Fool; The Murderer’s Song; Mars; The Last Call. Non-Fiction: Scratching A Living; Mervyn Peake; Harlan Ellison; Angus Wilson; Andrea Dworkin; Maeve Gilmore; Taking The Life Out Of London; The Smell Of Old Vienna; Literally London; People Of The Book; London Lost And Found; Building The New Jerusalem. Pornography And Politics: Who’s Really Covering Up; What Feminism Has Done For Me; Caught Up In Reality; Anti-Personnel Capability; The Case Against Pornography. Fiction: Gold Diggers Of 1977 (Ten Claims That Won Our Hearts). Cover art by Diane Pfister.
  • Book II of a trilogy, coming between Blood and The War Amongst the Angels and which continues the adventures of the von Bek family, of Captain Quelch and Sundry Other Characters. Eleven interlocking tales  free-range throughout the times and places of the twentieth century exploring the myths and dictates by which most of us still  live. Following the careers of Graf Ulrich von Bek, Sexton Begg (Detective Extraordinaire), Albert Begg (Pirate Chaser) and Rose von Bek, the Angel of the Sporting Club Square - an obscure and perhaps magical corner of London that seems oddly immune to the normal effects of time. Cover art by Gustav Moreau: Dead Poet Borne By Centaur.
  • Gloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia. A new Golden Age of peace, enlightenment and prosperity has dawned, in dazzling contrast with the brutal austerity Albion endured under the iron hand of Gloriana's father, King Hern. Gloriana is Albion, and Albion is Gloriana; if one falls, so will the other. Much depends on Montfallcon, Gloriana's Chancellor, and his network  of spies and assassins - in particular cold-hearted Captain Quire, seducer of virtue and murderer of innocence. When the two quarrel and Arabia conceives a plan to ruin Gloriana, a huge intrigue is hatched, threatening to destroy Albion, the Empire and the Golden Age, in a love affair between the Queen of Virtue and the King of Vice. Cover art, detail from Sappho  by Gustave Moreau (1893)
  • Colonel Pyat dreams and schemes his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the ultimate limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of destruction, both human and mechanical, in his wake as he crashes toward an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century. An epic and hilariously comic adventure in which Pyat is sustained by his dreams, and profligate inventions, his determination to turn his back on the realities of his own origins and runs from crisis to crisis creating ever more links in a chain of deceit, suppression and betrayal...yet this thoroughly unreliable narrator becomes a lens for focusing on an uneasy brand of truth.  The third book in the Pyat  series, which began with Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage. Cover art by Peter Dyer.
  • Book III of The Pyat Quartet. Colonel Pyat dreams and schemes his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the degradation of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of destruction, both human and mechanical in his wake as he crashes toward an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.  The third book in the Pyat series, which began with Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage. Cover art by Andrew Hirniak.

  • Volume II of The London Novels. Dennis Dover, son of the last real Londoner to be hanged for murder, is born and raised in Brookgate, inner London. He grows up street-wise and savvy - and deeply attached to his beautiful, brilliant cousin Rose Beck. But neither can foresee the rise of John Barbican Begg - financial genius and unscrupulous schemer, who despite their best resistance, latches onto their lives, As Dennis pursues a dual career of underground rock guitarist and intrepid photojournalist while Rosie uses her intelligence and energies to feeding the poor of the world, Barbican builds a commercial empire of wealth and power that dwarfs that of most nation states. AS the three pursue their different paths they also draw towards a joint resolution of their destinies.
  • Book II of the  Warrior of Mars trilogy. Michael Kane, 20th century scientist travels again through space and time to face the perils of eons-old Mars. I found myself in a tangle of soft yielding flesh that seemed boneless...And the faces! They were vile parodies of human faces and resembled nothing so much as the ugly little vampire bat of Earth, flat faces with huge nostrils let into the head. gashes of mouths full of sharp little fangs, half-blind eyes, dark and wicked...  Originally published as Blades of Mars. Cover art by Tim White.
  • Book III of Warrior of Mars trilogy. Michael Kane, scientist and warrior extraordinary, travels through space and time for the last time to disease-ravaged Mars. 'I saw a man stagger from a house and come stumbling towards us. There was bloody foam on his lips and his face had a greenish patch coming up from his neck to his nose., One arm seemed paralysed and useless, the other waved about as if he was trying to keep his balance. He saw us, and an articulate cry came from his lips.  His eyes were fever-bright and hatred shone from them...' Originally published as Barbarians of Mars.  Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey.
  • Three hospital outpatients all find that they hear voices - the voices of London's past. As they explore the city of their present day, they also explore its recent past and its forgotten people. Through the lives of those on the fringe of society, the reader learns what it is like - and what it has always been like - to live in the great, sprawling, polyphonic, multi-coloured capital. Cover art by Krüdd Art.
  • Book II of Elric of Melnibone. Elric, last of the emperors of a once-mighty land, self-exiled bearer of the sword of power called Stormbringer, found a ship wreathed in mist waiting for him on an alien seashore. When he boarded the mysterious vessel, he learnt from his shadowy captain that he was to serve a strange quest side by side with other heroes from other times. For this ship sailed no earthly waters...These warriors and champions fought sorcerers and demons in a journey spanning seas that seemed to connect not coastlines or continents but whole eras and different worlds. For there were all sailors on the seas of Fate...Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • Book V of Jerry Cornelius. Una and  Catherine - lovers, revolutionaries and time travellers extraordinare - are now flashing through the dimensions in a dazzling kaleidoscope of real and imaginary twentieth centuries, a riotous extravaganza of alternative pasts, presents and futures in a madly unpredictable trip...filled with unruly, catastrophic and fantastic adventures. With Jerry Cornelius and a host of Moorcock creations close at hand, the action is immense! Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • Book II of Sailing To Utopia. The world is sick. The Forces of Chaos have energised the planet. Leaders, Führers, Duces, Prophets, Visionaries, Gurus and Politicians are all at each other's throats. And Chaos leers over the broken body of order. So Ryan freezes his family into suspended animation and sets off for the planet Munich 15040, five years distant. There he will establish Order in a New World - and create a happier, healthier saner and more decent society with the ones he loves. But they are suspended. And they cannot talk. And he is alone in space. And he has been travelling for three years...and he will still be travelling two years hence and he cannot see his destination and he is ALONE and LOST and CRACKING UP... Cover art by Bob Haberfield.
  • Book V of Von Bek. Renark was born to wander under the diamond glare of a myriad suns. He was never alone because he sensed the power of unseen hands which guided the ebb and flow of the universe. Then, after two years of watching and waiting, he was ready for the great journey to the galactic rim and beyond. There he found himself in the arena of the Blood Red Game. Stakes were high. For the human race it meant extinction or rebirth. Cover art by Greg Theakston.
  • The Chronicles of  Castle Brass, Being the Second Volume of the High History of the Runestaff. Dorian Hawkmoon, the invincible, the Eternal Champion, the Duke of Köln, is dying from melancholia. His wife Yisselda, beautiful daughter of Count Brass, has perished in the Battle of Londra - or so the evidence suggests. But somewhere in the caverns of his soul, Hawkmoon knows otherwise and some think him so mad that he will never again leave Castle Brass. When Katinka van Bak, Regent of Ukrania, arrives to seek his help in saving her Bulgar Mountain State from an army of alien demons, voices from centuries past tell him that the key to Yisselda's fate now lies in his grasp. He begins his journey with her, a journey that will take him through time and space and previous incarnations, where as Queen Ilian of Garathorm, he is once again the Champion Eternal of the Black Jewel, friend of the enigmatic Jhary-a-Conel and fabled destroyer of the Dark Empire. Cover art by Bob Haberfield
  • The sequel to The Warhound And The World's Pain. The Ritter Von Bek escapes the terrors of the French Revolution, goes ballooning with the Chevalier de St. Odhran and fights men and demons to find his one true love. Cover art by Robert Gould
  • This omnibus volume contains: An Alien Heat: Enter a decaying far, far future society, a time when anything and everything is possible, where words like 'conscience' and 'morality' are meaningless, and where heartfelt love blossoms mysteriously between Mrs Amelia Underwood, an unwilling time traveler, and Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. The Hollow Lands: Jherek Carnelian, one of the small population of hedonistic immortals remaining on earth at the end of time, is still obsessively in love with Mrs. Amelia Underwood, a reluctant time-traveler from Victorian England. After narrowly escaping death in nineteenth-century London, Jherek again is separated from his love by several millenniums. And so he begins a new, headlong campaign - seesawing through space and time regardless of risk or consequence - to reunite himself with Mrs. Underwood. The End Of All Songs: For the hedonistic immortals who dwell at the End of Time, the return of Jherek Carnelian with Mrs. Amelia Underwood - a reluctant time-traveler from Victorian England - is cause for jubilant celebration. Led by Jherek's mother, the Iron Orchid, the immortals set off on a mad spree of spectacular festivities. And in no time at all, Amelia, with her radiant beauty and quaintly platonic way of looking at things (especially Jherek), becomes the toast of the End of Time. But as the pandemonium progresses, some delicious and long-held mysteries are revealed and some distressing omens appear on the horizon. Due to circumstances beyond their control, immortality - at least as far as the immortals know it - will never be the same again. Cover art by Rodney Matthews.
  • This omnibus volume contains: An Alien Heat: Enter a decaying far, far future society, a time when anything and everything is possible, where words like 'conscience' and 'morality' are meaningless, and where heartfelt love blossoms mysteriously between Mrs Amelia Underwood, an unwilling time traveler, and Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. The Hollow Lands: Jherek Carnelian, one of the small population of hedonistic immortals remaining on earth at the end of time, is still obsessively in love with Mrs. Amelia Underwood, a reluctant time-traveler from Victorian England. After narrowly escaping death in nineteenth-century London, Jherek again is separated from his love by several millenniums. And so he begins a new, headlong campaign - seesawing through space and time regardless of risk or consequence - to reunite himself with Mrs. Underwood. The End Of All Songs: For the hedonistic immortals who dwell at the End of Time, the return of Jherek Carnelian with Mrs. Amelia Underwood - a reluctant time-traveler from Victorian England - is cause for jubilant celebration. Led by Jherek's mother, the Iron Orchid, the immortals set off on a mad spree of spectacular festivities. And in no time at all, Amelia, with her radiant beauty and quaintly platonic way of looking at things (especially Jherek), becomes the toast of the End of Time. But as the pandemonium progresses, some delicious and long-held mysteries are revealed and some distressing omens appear on the horizon. Due to circumstances beyond their control, immortality - at least as far as the immortals know it - will never be the same again. Cover art by Mark Reeve.
  • Book III of The Dancers At The End of Time. Iherek Carnelian, the Hero at the End of Time and his lady love, Amelia Underwood, have unexpectedly travelled to the dawn of the Palaezoic Era, where they enjoy Lower Devonian tea with a company of aliens and the Guild of Temporal Adventurers. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Springer is hot on their trail, so it's back to the end of time - where doom draws near.  If only they could stop the final cataclysm! Or at least, ignore it...Cover art by Robert Gould.
  • The drifting banks of early fog shrouded the cluttered townscape of jagged spires, twisting alleys and ant-heap tenements.  As Jephraim sat by the river bank, studying his misshapen body, the Golden Barge emerged from the glowing mist, burning brightly with inner light, to fade again, unexplained and silent.  And Jephraim knew he had to follow, alone, on a journey deep into the fabled lands of war, famine and enchantment.  He must reach and board the Golden Barge.  He will meet strange and unique characters who will effect changes in him; yet he still yearns to leave humanity behind and follow, ever onwards...and his pursuit of his dream together with his shunning of mankind will come at a cost... This is Moorcock's first novel, written when he was 18 and regarded as the first in the Eternal Champion sequence.  Cover art by Mick Van Houten. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/count-brass-michael-moorcock/
  • Book II of The Dancers at the End of Time. At the world's end, all love is timeless and all age-old disputes irrelevant. But Iherek Carnelian is in danger of taking reality too seriously, and grows tired of his pleasures. Perhaps a hunt for aliens would lift his spirits. Or better yet - a journey through time. Yes, the past! So complicated and strange - especially with its scarcity of a time machine for a return trip.  Cover art by Robert Gould.
  • Volume I: The History of the Runestaff.  The Runestaff held all the secrets of the barren earth. The destiny of Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Köln, Eternal Champion, was forever bound by it.  How was the Black Jewel to twist his fate? Because Dorian regained consciousness with the Black Jewel embedded in his skull and it felt warm, pulsating, comforting.  Then he discovered the terrible truth - the evil black gem was an eye through which his enemies, the Forces of the Dark Empire, could see everything that he saw...all the places he had travelled, all the people he had encountered. And if he refused to carry out their plan to overcome Granbretan, the Black Jewel could be made to come alive...and eat Dorian Hawkmoon's brain.  Cover art by Bob Haberfield.
  • The sequel to The Warlord Of The Air. The world is governed by plague, anarchy and superstition. Bands of diseased mutant brigands despoil the continents while pirate U-boats prowl the oceans. But from this chaos emerges the Black Attila - commander of the African Hordes and wielder of the most terrible weapon ever. It is the Land Leviathan, a ziggurat on wheels, a moving mountain of armoured artillery which enables the realisation, after centuries of oppression, of Black Power on an unimaginable scale.  Cover art by Chris Foss.
  • Book II of The History of the Runestaff. Having braved incredible dangers and hardships, and wearied by his battle against the science-sorcery of the Dark Empire, Dorian Hawkmoon was returning to his adopted homeland of the Karmag. But even worse awaited him there. His betrothed, Yisselda, had been abducted by the Mad God, an evil sorcerer who had usurped the Red Amulet of the Runestaff. The Amulet gave the power of the Runestaff to its possessor and the Mad God was perverting that mighty power to his own evil ends. Even as the destructive shadow of the Dark Empire spread across the world, Hawkmoon knew that only he could rescue Yisselda - and the Red Amulet - from the Mad God. Cover art by Bob Haberfield.
  • Contains all three books of the Oswald Bastable Trilogy: The War Lord of the Air; The Land Leviathan and The Steel Tsar.  In 1903, Captain Oswald Bastable, in charge of a military mission in the Himalayas, enters the Temple of the Future Buddha at Teku Benga. He is catapulted into a brave new world decades in the future - a world where the British Empire is stronger than ever and giant airships rule the air. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.

  • Book II of The Books Of Corum. Prince Corum has defeated the Chaos Lord Arioch. But any peace for him and his faithful Rhalina is brief. His actions have evoked the murderous anger of Arioch's sister, the dreaded Xiombarg. The Prince in the Scarlet Robe must continue his odyssey, face the terror of the Mabden armies, and challenge the might of the Queen of the Swords. Faced with immense powers of evil on all sides, only the legendary City of the Pyramid offers a glimmer of hope. But Corum must get there first, and along the way he will encounter horrifying creatures, strange forms of sorcery, and new planes of existence. Cover art by Bob Haberfield.