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.