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Title: Sailing to Utopia (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 8) by Michael Moorcock, Rick Berry ISBN: 1-56504-183-6 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Four Voyages
Comment: White Wolf Publishing did a superb job in collecting Michael Moorcock's fantasy work into these beautiful omnibus editions. This volume, eight in the series, contains three novels and one short story, none of which have any obvious connection to the "Eternal Champion" theme. The tales do have some common elements, however; all four pieces feature a group of travelers fleeing a crumbling or decaying society and looking for solutions elsewhere, or "elsewhen."
The Ice Schooner depicts a future Ice Age. A small civilization is established on the ice fields, cities are built into crevasses, and trades and whalers ply the frozen oceans in their ice ships. Konrad Arflane, a typically moody and grim Moorcock hero, undertakes a quest to New York to discover why the ice is melting and his civilization possibly coming to an end. A rare example of pure SF from Moorcock; well told and atmospheric, with a perhaps too hasty resolution.
The Black Corridor, written with Moorcock's then-wife Hilary Bailey, reads more like a Robert Silverberg novel than Moorcock piece. A group of space travelers in cryogenic freeze are fleeing an Earth where xenophobia and war are destroying civilization. One man remains awake to operate the spaceship, and reflects on his final years on Earth, as the world crumbles around him. This is one of Moorcock's best works, taut, suspenseful, evocative, and horrifying. I've read this one three times since it originally appeared in 1969, and it still has an impact... and I'm not sure I completely understand it.
The Distant Suns, a collaboration with British artist and author James Cawthorn, appears in this volume for the first time in the U.S. Again, civilization is crumbling and a trio of space explorers set out to find an answer. (The characters are Jerry, Frank, and Catherine Cornelius, but names aside, they have no apparent connection to the Cornelius characters of Moorcock's other stories.) Written in a hyperventilating pulp style, the purpose here is perhaps to satirize pulp SF clichés, but the authors mimic the purple prose of the 40s too closely for my taste, and I quickly tired of this one, skimming through the last hundred pages to get a general idea of the plot. This ranks as one of Moorcock's misses for me... or perhaps I just missed the point.
Flux, a short story written with Barrington J. Bayley, describes a near future Europe, again facing imminent destruction, which sends an operative into the future to discover a solution. Anyone familiar with Bayley's work will not be surprised to find this story brimming over with madcap ideas. While not as polished as Bayley's later writings (to say nothing of Moorcock's) this is an enjoyable and thought-provoking tale.
Recommended for anyone who enjoys Moorcocks' early SF and fantasy works.
Rating: 5
Summary: Doubting my own sanity!
Comment: This review is mainly concerning The Black Corridor.
I just read it (mostly yesterday and finished it in the bath). It's a shortish story which starts off harmlessly enough, almost blandly, and yet slowly draws the reader in. But by the end...
Put it this way, right now I'm surfing around trying to find somewhere or someone I can discuss this story with, ask their opinion, what does it mean? What did they think? Where was the line between reality and madness?
How strange that something so short and seemingly unimportant can generate such an emotion. Maybe I need to take some Proditol (read it).
I read it, it greatly stirred my emotions, five stars, enough said.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sailing to Utopia is a fabulous way to spend an evening....
Comment: Sailing to Utopia is definately one of Moorcock's best works. It's sparse language and epic plot lines will leave you terrified, yet at the same time you are completely fulfilled. Each story in the novel is fabulous, even though they don't tie in to each other. Moorcock has written concurrent stories with other Eternal Champion novels (Hawkmoon, Corum: the Coming of Chaos), you can't let this influence you in any way of how intense this book is. Instead of having a concurrent plot line throughout, Moorcock's places themes behind his stories that tie them together as one. However, each story is so enriched with life that each one can definately stand alone as an extraordinary piece of writing.
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Title: The Roads Between The Worlds (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 6) by Michael Moorcock, Michael Mourcock ISBN: 1565041976 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Kane of Old Mars by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 1565049888 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Von Bek (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 2) by Michael Moorcock, Janet Avlisio ISBN: 1565041925 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Elric: Song of the Black Sword (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 5) by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 156504195X Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Hawkmoon (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 3) by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 1565041933 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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