Really good Sword & Sorcery tales and I enjoyed them thoroughly. The first two stories are very much in the style of the original Elric Saga, short, fast paced and to the point. This story is set during the "The Bane of the Black Sword" which is book five of The Elric Saga, more precisely in between "Kings in Darkness" and "The Flame Bringers" - despite the back of the book claiming otherwise! This is all nice and dandy but it also presents a small problem which I'll get to in a minute. The novel is separated it three parts, which is quite common for the Elric saga but their vibe is kinda different. With that being said I quite enjoyed this return to the character. This is possibly the last Elric novel and the thought is bittersweet indeed. "We are the Veterans of a thousand Psychic Wars, you can hear the footsteps falling as the Winds of Limbo roar." In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his Second Ether fiction. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ.
A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.ĭuring this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
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