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In the elaborate fictional cosmos Michael Moorcock has created, Elric and the various vonBeks are all aspects of the Eternal Champion who fights for the Balance, preventing both Law and Chaos from dominating the universe and trapping it in either barren sterility or pointless fecundity. Elric, the albino sorcerer and last prince of the inhuman empire of Melnibone, was the creation of Moorcock's adventurous pot-boiling inventive youth, just as the vonBek family featured in the heroic fantasies of his more thoughtful middle-life. 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, Amazon.co.uk Read More

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  • Product Description

    With Hitler on the march, Count Ulric von Bek has been imprisoned by the Nazis until he agrees to relinquish the black sword he inherited from his family. Half dead, he is rescued from Sachsen-hausen concentration camp by a mysterious Englishman and a lovely young woman named Oona. Journeying with them to a strange underground world, he meets a figure known to him only in dreamsElric of Melnibon, the wandering Prince of Ruins. Somehow the same person, yet separate, their very beings fuse spectacularly. Now the never-ending struggle between Law and Chaos must be fought in both their universes. Michael Moorcocks multi-book Elric saga comprises one of the most intricate and beloved series in all fantasy. The original novel, Elric of Melnibon (1972), has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Numerous follow-up novels are available in mass market, trade paperback, and omnibus hardcover editions, but there has been no new Elric novel since The Revenge of the Rose (Ace Books, 1991). Michael Moorcocks more than 80 worksincluding the Nebula Award-winning novella Behold the Manhave also won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Fantasy Award, among others. Moorcock was also the editor of New Worlds magazine, one of the seminal publications of the New Wave of science fiction writing. This is the first of three Elric novels that Moorcock will be writing for Aspect, with the following two appearing in 2002 and 2003.

  • 0446526185
  • 9780446526180
  • Michael Moorcock
  • 1 April 2001
  • Aspect
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
  • First Edition
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