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Eternal Champion, The [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)
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  • Publisher: Mayflower (1974)
  • ASIN: B000LTOICQ
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The real beginning to Moorcock's Eternal Champion series. 11 Sep 1999
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Although published as the second volume in Moorcock's Eternal Champion series, this is really the foundation for all the other works.

The plot, about a modern day man inexplicably sucked into a parallel world of sword and sorcery, sounds like typical pulp fanatasy hokum. Fortunately, it is far from being that. John Daker becomes Erekosë, the Eternal Champion, destined to forever wander the worlds of the multiverse as a pawn in the battle between law and chaos. What makes these three volumes fascinating however, and raises them above the level of similar books, is Moorcock's focus on the psychological torment of his hero.

This is some of Moorcock's earliest writing, and, lacking in the complexities of his later work, it is an easy and enjoyable read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The beginning of the most ambitous fantasy saga ever 9 Jan 2002
By "jugadora"
Format:Paperback
This is a very good book to get if you're interested in where it all started. While the stories themselves aren't necessarily the best Mr Moorcock ever wrote, they are amongst the most important. In this particular edition, which varies quite a bit from the UK omnibus, we get The Sundered Worlds, the book which first offered the world the idea of the multiverse, Black Holes and many other ideas since become standard in science and sf. This is my favourite edition of this book, since it also has a splendid portrait of the Champion himself. Great value, even though, come to think of it, Moorcock wrote most of this before he was 21. I am collecting these editions. They are without doubt the best.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Can be seen as the start of the Eternal Champion cycle 16 Aug 2010
By Mark Poles
Format:Paperback
Review of the first book of this compilation:

As you might guess, this is another Eternal Champion book, the first in the Erekose series. It's also in many ways the first of the whole Eternal Champion cycle. It was published in 1962, but mostly written as early as 1955, making it pretty much a contemporary of Lord of the Rings.

It sits with 'The Warhound and the World's Pain' as something of an introduction to the Eternal Champion series. In the foreword to this edition, Moorcock describes this first novel as one of his least complex and least ambitious. I can see what he means - in many ways it's a straight fantasy novel - but it has a rather stronger moral commentary than most fantasy. Stephen Donaldson's 'Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever' shares the idea of a real world human transported to a fantasy setting as the reincarnation of a legendary hero. Certainly Erekose and Covenant take a different approach to their roles as saviour, but if you read both series, you'll appreciate when they make the same decisions. And when they don't.

It occurs to me that Covenant would probably work as an incarnation of the Eternal Champion. But I'm sure Moorcock would hate that idea.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Erekose Books Review 5 Feb 2012
By M. Boulger
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It was truely wonderful to reread the first 2 stories of Erekose again after well over 30 years, and to be reaquainted with von Bek in The Dragon and The Sword was an unexpected treat.

All 3 stories give full details without going too slow to bore the reader, and by the end of the 1st story I was once again feeling empathy for our hero, who was bearing the guilt of genocide of his own race on his mind and soul.

This said all 3 stories show what I would class as the human condition, and that is to conquer all who do not think the way that they do, and of course Erekose is the counter balance to this condition.

3 different stories, 1 hero, and all excellently written, but it should not surprise anyone that eventually Erekose comes back to his own world as John Daker to resume his greatest adventure, his own life not his dream life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Where it all began 18 April 2009
By Paul Sheridan
Format:Paperback
When this was written (back in the 70s, I think), it helped define 'modern' fantasy (or what was described as Heroic Fantasy at the time). Moorcock is the grandfather of British fantasy but his influence has been international. This book gives us the start of the Eternal Champion narrative, even though it is the second in the sequence. Like Tolkein's work, Eternal Champion should be read with a certain respect. You will begin to see how he's influenced current big name authors and begin to understand those authors more. And you'll see where new fantasy subgenres have stemmed from e.g. the metaphysical fantasy subgenre spearheaded by the British fantasy author A J Dalton, with Necromancer's Gambit Necromancer's Gambit: Book one: Book One of the Flesh and Bone Trilogy
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3.0 out of 5 stars Erekose among the paranoids 30 July 2008
By Ventura Angelo
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This is the very beginning of the "Eternal champion" saga. John Daker, as Erekose, is summoned, much like Corum will be, by humans of another Universe, who need him to defend them from the "threat" of the Eldren, an elfin-like race inhabiting a continent of that alternate Earth. Erekose, still staggering, is instructed at lenght about the evil of the Eldren, in a language reminding us of the language used by Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler; Erekose later sees that the war techniques emploied by those humans are no different than those allegedly emploied by the "evil Eldren". And at the end Erekose will find a "final solution", having learned the truth...
As a moral tale it's bluntly overt and more than disturbing, and a bit too predictable, as there is no question as who are the bad and the good guys. Mr Moorcock was young when he wrote this, and had to learn to be subtle. Still, this novel is important as the very beginning of the Eternal Champion saga.
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