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Elric, the albino sorcerer, last prince of the inhuman empire of Melnibone, was the creation of Michael Moorcock's adventurous pot-boiling inventive youth, just as the vonBek family featured in the heroic fantasies of his more thoughtful middle-life. Yet, in the elaborate fictional cosmos Moorcock has created, Elric and the various vonBeks are all aspects of the Eternal Champion who fights for the Balance which prevents both Law and Chaos from dominating the universe and trapping it in either barren sterility or pointless fecundity. In The Dreamthief's Daughter, he brings together Elric and Ulric vonBek, last scion of the family, and we finally learn the sin for which the perpetual villain Gaynor the Damned was doomed; Nazi occultists are searching for the Grail and the Black Sword, and must be prevented from attaining them. Ulric seeks allies wherever he can find them, including Oona, who wanders through dream realities and with whom he falls in love. This is fast-moving phantasmagorical stuff with ambiguously virtuous heroes and baddies whose villainy and charm is total. Moorcock's immensely powerful visual imagination and sense of the innate drama of crucial scenes make this a breathtaking read. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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First in a new trilogy of Elric of Melnibone, Moorcock's most famous character; Both Elric of Melniboine and Ulrich von Bek feature in the first of this new series from the master of fantastical fiction. The surreal landscapes of Elric's world, the First and Second World Wars and the rise of Nazi Germany are melded together in a novel which has both the gusto of Moorcock's early fantasy novels and the measured brilliance of Mother London and his later books. Here, we learn the origin of Stormbringer, Elric's black, soul-stealing runeblade, and Mournblade, its sister sword...
Elric, the albino sorcerer, last prince of the inhuman empire of Melnibone, was the creation of Michael Moorcock's adventurous pot-boiling inventive youth, just as the vonBek family featured in the heroic fantasies of his more thoughtful middle-life. Yet, in the elaborate fictional cosmos Moorcock has created, Elric and the various vonBeks are all aspects of the Eternal Champion who fights for the Balance which prevents both Law and Chaos from dominating the universe and trapping it in either barren sterility or pointless fecundity. In The Dreamthief's Daughter, he brings together Elric and Ulric vonBek, last scion of the family, and we finally learn the sin for which the perpetual villain Gaynor the Damned was doomed; Nazi occultists are searching for the Grail and the Black Sword, and must be prevented from attaining them. Ulric seeks allies wherever he can find them, including Oona, who wanders through dream realities and with whom he falls in love. This is fast-moving phantasmagorical stuff with ambiguously virtuous heroes and baddies whose villainy and charm is total. Moorcock's immensely powerful visual imagination and sense of the innate drama of crucial scenes make this a breathtaking read. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Synopsis
First in a new trilogy of Elric of Melnibone, Moorcock's most famous character; Both Elric of Melniboine and Ulrich von Bek feature in the first of this new series from the master of fantastical fiction. The surreal landscapes of Elric's world, the First and Second World Wars and the rise of Nazi Germany are melded together in a novel which has both the gusto of Moorcock's early fantasy novels and the measured brilliance of Mother London and his later books. Here, we learn the origin of Stormbringer, Elric's black, soul-stealing runeblade, and Mournblade, its sister sword...
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