Michael Moorcock The White Wolf's Son hardcover Elric Eternal Champion

Description: The White Wolf's Son by Michael Moorcock (2005 Warner Books / Aspect) Item Condition: Used. Book has light wear on dust jacket. Top of page edges have yellowed from time. Bottom of page edges have a marker line. Interior is free of writing and highlighting. Description: This is the third installment of the Sleep of a Thousand Years offshoot of the original Eternal Champion sagas and a direct outgrowth of the Elric of Melnibone novel, "The Fortress of the Pearl". Moorcock's invention of the Gods of Chaos and Law, and the Balance represents one of the great fantasy innovations in the post-Tolkien era. Writing the initial works in 60s England, his work represents a rejection of the Good vs. Evil paradigm and by extension the Cold War political basis. Quotes like the following remind us that there is more to a well-crafted fantasy than storytelling: "During one of my spells I spent in the carriage we rode by towns which were in ruins, some from the recent battles and some from earlier conquests of the Dark Empire, whose policy was to attack from the air, killing anything that moved before landing its troops. I had only ever looked at scenes like these on the TV. And then it had always been our side making most of the ruins, and I'd felt differently about it - often angry, sometimes guilty, but not like this. This was a feeling of furious frustration and a deep hatred of the cowardly people who did this, flying out of the clouds to bring destruction to whole families." In these later and more expanded works Moorcock is asking us to think what a Balanced world might look like and how it would be achievable in our own world without magic and religion. They are also demanding that we see our reality in all its naked glory and shame. It is hard for me to see how a new reader could start with these novels despite the significant in-story "histories" relayed to new characters in each of these novels, however, given the size of the early Elric novels catching up is not an impossibility. I am envious of new readers' first steps into the world of the Eternal Champions but I am also glad more works are being produced by Mr. Moorcock. If you purchase multiple items, use Ebay's shopping cart - I use their shipping calculator to calculate postage. See the About page of the store for more details.

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