The earth has grown old, her landscapes mellow, her people lost in a brooding dream. Relentlessly, the armies of the Dark Empire ravage and destroy once peaceful states. None is able to resist - until Hawkmoon; Hawkmoon who must join a quest of wonder and evil to seek the Runestaff.
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Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.
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Although not an Elric book, this is (IMHO) one of the best moorcock Eternal Champion books. placed in "Europe", Grandbretan takes the evil empire part, and you can imagine what it was like to live in europe during and after WWII... together with Corum and Elric, the best trio for a real Moorcock lover.
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By Donal Garvey
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The Hawkmoon books are perhaps less ambitious and definitely less 'quirky' than most of Moorcock's books but this does not take from their quality. As a narrative they are particularly successful and the writing is stylish. I recommend this as an introduction to Moorcock.
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Moorcock wrote each of the four books in this volume in three days each. Which is twelve days for the whole thing. Which, given its incredible influence and endurance, with all kinds of spin-offs and imitations, is pretty good going. It is a rich, baroque, dark world Moorcock gives us and it's won't surprise anyone I was a Goth when I first came across this (now I'm just an academic) but in spite of the speed at which it was written (almost faster than you can read it!) it has a wonderful consistency, great over the top language and a momentum that can't be matched by anyone in any genre. Moorcock originally wrote these books to finance the avante garde magazine New Worlds, which published everyone from Ballard,
D.M.Thomas, John Sladek, James Sallis and M.John Harrison, so he was running a very sophisticated literary magazine while writing these. Much of that sophistication is what underpins these splendid supernatural adventure stories and makes them one of the very best of their kind, equal to the best Howard and making most that has come since look fairly pale and bloodless in comparison. Viva Moorcock and the Dark Empire of Grand Bretagne.
D.M.Thomas, John Sladek, James Sallis and M.John Harrison, so he was running a very sophisticated literary magazine while writing these. Much of that sophistication is what underpins these splendid supernatural adventure stories and makes them one of the very best of their kind, equal to the best Howard and making most that has come since look fairly pale and bloodless in comparison. Viva Moorcock and the Dark Empire of Grand Bretagne.
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A great bargin
Exactly what I wanted for my trade paperback collection and in good, well read, condition. It was also at a great price.
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Sardonic fable
People who don't 'get' Moorcock don't get his sardonic or ironic tone. The books are fast-moving narratives but, like a good rock and roll song, they have a complementary harmony. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2002
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Outstanding. And there's jokes, too!
Fast, furious and full of invention, this series has fueled half the fantasy epics on the shelves -- but it always has something extra. Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2002
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The Eternal Champion lives again in Hawkmoon.
If you havn't read any of Moorcock's work before, Hawkmoon is a good place to start. The story is set in a world of the far future, where civilisaton has undergone a dramatic... Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2001
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one of Moorcock's Best
even though not an Elric book, this is one of my favorite in the Eternal champion serie. for once it's a true novel, and not short stories. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2001
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