Michael Moorcock

//Michael Moorcock
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  • 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 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.

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • It is nearly three decades since the discovery of the sub-spacial alternates - twenty-four lumps of matter hanging in a limbo outside space and time, each sharing the name of Earth. Now there are only fifteen of them - the rest blown to extinction by the ruthless attacks of the D-squads. Even the surviving plants are doomed to a cruel, mutilated existence. Professor Faustaff's life is dedicated to fighting the merciless demolition teams, trying to correct the Unstable Natter Situations they create. But he feels it is a battle he cannot win.
  • 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.
  • In the towering City of Switzerland, after a century of peace, political power was deadlocked between the Solar Referendum Party and the Radical Liberal Movement. Until the laughing Fireclown arrived. His jovial personality, grotesque appearance and powerful speeches in favour of a return to Nature:  all these excited the masses- and struck fear into the ruling elite. Was the Fireclown merely a romantic anachronism, a potential vote catcher, an issue with which to distract the populace from Earth's real problems? Or was he a genuine threat to humanity's future? Only Alan Powys and Helen Curtis tried to understand what the Fireclown was really saying...Cover art  by George Underwood.

  • 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.
  • 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.