A Celtic fantasy saga of love, battle and tragedy as ancient gods seek to regaincontrol of the human world - volume 10 of the Millennium Editions of Michael Moorcock's fantastic fiction.
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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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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Although this is book ten in the tale of the Eternal Champion, this is also more directly the sequel to Corum.
Years after defeating the Sword Rulers, chaotic gods who treat mortals as playthings, Corum has become withdrawn and loses all joy in life. So, when the descendants of the Mabden descended from his wife beg for his aid in defeating a new peril come upon the land, Corum joins their struggle as much out of boredom as anything else.
The world, however, has changed. Where science and rationality once ruled, superstition, sorcery and magic are now the order of the day. To defeat his new enemy, Corum must come to trust in wizardy and forge strange new alliances...
Where the earlier Corum was woven purely out of Moorcock's own imagination, The Prince with the Silver Hand is a fond pastiche if Celtic Myth, fought against the backdrop of Moorcock's own version of the Multiverse. Both Jhary-a-Conel, Corum's strangely knowledgable sidekick, and Prince Gaynor the Damned, a chaotic reflection of Corum himself, make welcome reappearances as do many other of Moorcock's signature images.
Originally published in three volumes, The Bull and the Spear, The Oak and the Ram, and The Sword and the Stallion, this book will be a joy to those who have enjoyed the other Eternal Champion books, and yet can be enjoyed by those with have yet to experience Moorcock's personal mythos.
With sinister swords, black magic, treachery, heroism, zombies, giants, huge amounts of blood enough snow to make a penguin wince, this has everything that you could possibly want in a fantasy novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Corum stories are Moorcock at his most evidently lyrical, with much more in common with Tolkien or Dunsany than his usual fast and furious sword and sorcery epics. This is a very Celtic sequence, much closer to existing mythology than usual. Moorcock is inclined to invent his own. But this ties his mythology neatly to traditional.
A delicious, delicately-wrought tale of courage and tragedy and strange love. If your impression of fantasy is the crude fantasy-factory stuff of Feist, Jordan and Co. then you should give something like this a go. You might find you do like fantasy, after all! I first came to fantasy through the first Corum series and these remain my favourites, even though Moorcock's literary books, like the Pyat sequence, are my very favourite modern fiction of any kind. For sheer intelligent romanticism, though, this is the best way to treat yourself to a couple of days off!
A delicious, delicately-wrought tale of courage and tragedy and strange love. If your impression of fantasy is the crude fantasy-factory stuff of Feist, Jordan and Co. then you should give something like this a go. You might find you do like fantasy, after all! I first came to fantasy through the first Corum series and these remain my favourites, even though Moorcock's literary books, like the Pyat sequence, are my very favourite modern fiction of any kind. For sheer intelligent romanticism, though, this is the best way to treat yourself to a couple of days off!
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At his best and most lyrical, no fantasy writer living or dead beats Michael Moorcock. The wonderful elegaic tone of this seems to me to confront the Matter of Britain far more rigorously and vividly -- and less childishly -- than LOTR.
If you enjoy fantasy but don't much like pixies and leprauchans and the whole repertory caste of
rural squirearchical forelock tuggers and pseudo-profound pronouncements that don't actually mean anything at all (except to pump up a faltering plot) but do like the atmosphere of, say, The King of Elfland's Daughter, this is for you. Moorcock's influences are Dunsany, White and Peake and all the better for it. Robust, English work which is a welcome relief to all the rafts of LOTR imitations out there. Moorcock is Moorock.
He is unique, both in his approach and in his invention. Great stuff. Fine entertainment and
not an extraneous word in it!
If you enjoy fantasy but don't much like pixies and leprauchans and the whole repertory caste of
rural squirearchical forelock tuggers and pseudo-profound pronouncements that don't actually mean anything at all (except to pump up a faltering plot) but do like the atmosphere of, say, The King of Elfland's Daughter, this is for you. Moorcock's influences are Dunsany, White and Peake and all the better for it. Robust, English work which is a welcome relief to all the rafts of LOTR imitations out there. Moorcock is Moorock.
He is unique, both in his approach and in his invention. Great stuff. Fine entertainment and
not an extraneous word in it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This was like watching the best kind of fantasy movie but with better plots and characters. What amazes me is that nobody's made movies out of these books, which are so totally visual. Maybe they don't need to. Anyway, they really are full of scenes that can't be beaten for sheer scope and beauty. Great plot and one of Moorcock's classically unexpected endings!
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I have a strong feeling for Prince Corum Jhaelen Irsei, because it was 1 of his stories that 1st introduced me to the writings of Michael Moorcock around 40 years ago.
The 2nd series is concerning the descendents of his Mabden wife's people. These people called for him to remove the threat of the Fhoi Myore, people from an icy realm, who are turning this world into another ice world.
With artefacts brought to this world by enemies of the Ice People he defeats them, but his adventures to find these items are full of daring and highly incredible deeds of courage.
3 great stories, 1 magnificent - albeit a reluctant - hero, but without wishing to give any of the story away, these stories come to a sad but natural conclusion.
I'm so glad that I can restock my library again with books like these by Mr Moorcock.
The 2nd series is concerning the descendents of his Mabden wife's people. These people called for him to remove the threat of the Fhoi Myore, people from an icy realm, who are turning this world into another ice world.
With artefacts brought to this world by enemies of the Ice People he defeats them, but his adventures to find these items are full of daring and highly incredible deeds of courage.
3 great stories, 1 magnificent - albeit a reluctant - hero, but without wishing to give any of the story away, these stories come to a sad but natural conclusion.
I'm so glad that I can restock my library again with books like these by Mr Moorcock.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the greatest peices of literature of the last century and makes lord of the rings look like a feeble atempt at a fantasy novel.
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