Ok, so my fabulous box of Michael Moocock books arrived at my house finally and low and behold out of 58 there were bound to be duplicates of ones i already had and also there were some duplicates of series within the box itself
SO,
I have free books for some lucky people
2 sets of The Swords Trilogy to give away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swords_TrilogyThe Swords Trilogy is a series of fantasy novels by Michael Moorcock about Corum Jhaelen Irsei, an aspect of the Eternal Champion. It consists of three books published in 1971: The Knight of the Swords, The Queen of the Swords, and The King of the Swords. In the UK the trilogy has been published under the titles The Swords of Corum, Corum, and most recently Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe (volume 30 of Orion's Fantasy Masterworks series). The Swords Trilogy is the original title in the US where it has more recently been published as Corum: The Coming of Chaos. It is followed by a second trilogy about Corum, The Prince with the Silver Hand (US title: The Chronicles of Corum).
2 sets of The Chronicles of Corum
Sequel to the above.
1 x The Warhound and the World's Pain
This is probably my absolute single favorite Michael Moorcock Book.
The War Hound and the World's Pain is a 1981 fantasy novel by Michael Moorcock, the first of the "von Bek" series of novels.
The book is set in Europe ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. Its hero Ulrich von Bek is a mercenary and freethinker, who finds himself a damned soul in a castle owned by Lucifer. Much to his surprise, von Bek is charged by Lucifer with doing God's work, by finding the Holy Grail, the "cure for the world's pain," that will also cure Lucifer's pain by reconciling him with God. Only through doing this can von Bek save his soul.
1 x Warlord of the Air, Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar (set)
The Warlord of the Air is a 1971 British alternate history science fiction novel written by Michael Moorcock. It concerns the adventures of Oswald Bastable, an Edwardian-era soldier stationed in India, and his adventures in an alternate universe wherein the First World War never happened. It is part of Moorcock's 'A Nomad of the Time Streams' trilogy and, in both its use of technology extrapolated from the Edwardian era (such as airships) and a cod-Victorian / Edwardian era writing style, is generally considered a precursor to steampunk fiction.[citation needed] The novel was first published by Ace Books as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series.
The story of Oswald Bastable's continuing adventures "trapped forever in the shifting tides of time" is framed with the conceit of the book being a long lost manuscript, as related by Moorcock's grandfather. The elder Moorcock travels to China in an attempt to track down Bastable, meeting Una Persson of the Jerry Cornelius novels on the way.
Bastable's story takes in a post-apocalyptic twentieth century, where Western Europe and the United States have been devastated by accelerated technological change, which led to a prolonged global war, causing their reversion to barbarism and savagery. By contrast, South Africa is ruled by Gandhi, apartheid never happened, and is an oasis of civilisation, as are an independent China and India, which stayed out of the conflict, and are affluent, technologically advanced nations in this alternate, anti-imperialist twentieth century. To restore civilisation and social order in the afflicted Northern Hemisphere, a 'Black Attila' leads an African army to beneficent if paternalist conquest of Europe and an apocalyptic war against the United States featuring the "vast, moving ziggurat of destruction" of the title.
Martin Wisse noted that the book "is quite obviously a commentary on the "yellow peril" and "black peril" novel of the late 19th and early 20th century, with its unthinking racism, love of superweapons and willingness to commit genocide of the "lesser races". Here the formula is inverted, and the sympathies of the writer and reader are with Gandhi and the "Black Attila", shown as a genuinely good man." They are contrasted with the impoverished, tribalised white supremacists of the devastated former United States, which has reintroduced African American slavery.
The Steel Tsar is a novel by Michael Moorcock [1]. It is the final part of a trilogy which has been seen as an example of steampunk fiction. It is a sequel to The Warlord of the Air and The Land Leviathan and is also published in the compilation volume A Nomad of the Time Streams.
It was first published by Granada in 1981. In a story introduced by the ubiquitous Una Persson, the hero, Oswald Bastable, finds himself in an alternative twentieth century in which the Great War never happened. Britain and Germany became allies instead, as France declined, in a world menaced by Japanese Imperialism. Oswald joins the Russian Imperial Airship Navy and is imprisoned by the rebel Dugashvili, the 'Steel Tsar' of the title who is known to the real world, of course, as Joseph Stalin. While imperialism and racism in nineteenth century "heroic" fiction were deconstructed in its predecessors, this final book deals with the benefits of socialism and anarchism in a third alternate twentieth century where there were no effective social democratic parties in Western Europe and Australasia, as in our world.
1x Dancers At The End of Time, The Hollow Lands
Probably my second favorite series from Moorcock. Only have copies of the first two in the first trilogy. sorry. They do stand alone quite well though so you won't really miss the third book.
The Dancers at the End of Time is a series of science fiction novels and short stories written by Michael Moorcock, the setting of which is the End of Time, an era "where entropy is king and the universe has begun collapsing upon itself".[1] The inhabitants of this era are immortal decadents, creating flights of fancy using power rings which draw on energy devised and stored by their ancestors millions of years prior. Time travel is possible, and throughout the series various points in time are visited and revisited. space travelers are also common, but most residents of the End of Time find leaving the planet distasteful and clichéd. The title of the series is itself taken from a poem by a fictitious 19th Century poet, Ernest Wheldrake, which Mrs. Amelia Underwood quotes in The End of All Songs.[2]
Reunited at the end of Time, Jherek and the other inhabitants of the End of Time have returned to their preferred amusements of parties and games. They are interrupted by a ship of alien musician/pirates, the Lat. Hunted by the Lat, Jherek stumbles into a subterranean school built centuries ago to protect the last children of that era from the tyrant director Peckinpah. The time in the school is constantly recycled by a robot nanny so old she has started to break down, and as a result is recycling the same week repeatedly. The teacher-robot mistakes Jherek for one of her children as she has forgotten that there is anything outside her school, and keeps him. When she realizes her mistake, she agrees to send him back to 1896; her ability to recycle time means that she can function as a time machine.
Returned to the 19th century, Jherek heads for Bromley, where Mrs Amelia Underwood lives. On the way, Jherek meets H.G. Wells and explains that he is a time traveller, but is met only with Wells's ironic disbelief. Jherek is finally reunited with Mrs Underwood but also forced to confront her husband Mr Underwood. Mr. Underwood is so suspicious of their story that a reluctant Mrs Underwood runs away with Jherek. Chased by the police, the two are rescued by a journalist, Mr Jackson who, like Judge Jagger, bears a strong resemblance to Lord Jagged.
I also have nine Elric books. But because the publishing history of those is rather labrynthine, I will have to really pore over them to see what I have already read. I know I can at least give away the first book, but will want to see how many of them I can give away as a set before i let individual books go.
I also have a LOT of his science fiction, much of it I have NEVER HEARD OF, much less read. So I will need to see what's been published as what titles on what side of the Atlantic before I let those go.
So publicly claim a series and PM me your address if interested
