The Time Dweller
by Michael Moorcock
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Short stories from 1963-1966. A mix of Science Fiction and some horror.Tags
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This is a collection of short stories most of which are independent.
The Time Dweller and Escape from Evening are set in the same timeframe - a far future earth where life on earth is slowly dieing. In the first, we find a man who discovers the secret of living and moving through time. In the second, we meet a moon-dweller who comes to earth seeking the past only to find that he must learn to be content in the present.
The Deep Fix is the story of a man who is both the savior of mankind and its greatest scourge. Trapped in a research lab and completely reliant on drugs to keep him awake and allow him to sleep, he searches for a cure to the madness that he, alone, created and inflicted upon the entire world.
In The Golden Barge, we meet show more Tallow, a man on a quest for the legendary Golden Barge. He gets distracted for awhile by wine, a woman, song and life in luxury. But when his love succumbs to her own temptations, he returns to his quest for the barge. She begs to join him, and she does for a little while until Tallow insists that she go her own way.
Wolf is a little story about a man who hunts other humans - especially women who try to help him.
Consuming Passion is a story about a pyromaniac who finds that he has the power that any pyromaniac would kill to have. And it ends up killing him.
The Ruins was an odd little story about Muldoon - man who loses not only his way, but also his memory. It's hard to find your way home if you don't know where you are, who you are, where you're going or why you're not already there.
The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius appears here in its original form. In the Eternal Champion Omnibus #2, an updated version of the story appears with a Von Bek as the officer in charge of the case, This is the original version but other than changing names to more thoroughly tie in the Von Bek family to the saga of the eternal Champion. An odd little story with Hitler, Einstein, Bismark and Emma Braun.
The Mountain tells of the last men on earth and their travel to the mountain in search of what appears to be another human being. Unfortunately, one of them prefers to take in the view... show less
The Time Dweller and Escape from Evening are set in the same timeframe - a far future earth where life on earth is slowly dieing. In the first, we find a man who discovers the secret of living and moving through time. In the second, we meet a moon-dweller who comes to earth seeking the past only to find that he must learn to be content in the present.
The Deep Fix is the story of a man who is both the savior of mankind and its greatest scourge. Trapped in a research lab and completely reliant on drugs to keep him awake and allow him to sleep, he searches for a cure to the madness that he, alone, created and inflicted upon the entire world.
In The Golden Barge, we meet show more Tallow, a man on a quest for the legendary Golden Barge. He gets distracted for awhile by wine, a woman, song and life in luxury. But when his love succumbs to her own temptations, he returns to his quest for the barge. She begs to join him, and she does for a little while until Tallow insists that she go her own way.
Wolf is a little story about a man who hunts other humans - especially women who try to help him.
Consuming Passion is a story about a pyromaniac who finds that he has the power that any pyromaniac would kill to have. And it ends up killing him.
The Ruins was an odd little story about Muldoon - man who loses not only his way, but also his memory. It's hard to find your way home if you don't know where you are, who you are, where you're going or why you're not already there.
The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius appears here in its original form. In the Eternal Champion Omnibus #2, an updated version of the story appears with a Von Bek as the officer in charge of the case, This is the original version but other than changing names to more thoroughly tie in the Von Bek family to the saga of the eternal Champion. An odd little story with Hitler, Einstein, Bismark and Emma Braun.
The Mountain tells of the last men on earth and their travel to the mountain in search of what appears to be another human being. Unfortunately, one of them prefers to take in the view... show less
The Time Dweller
Escape from Evening
The Deep Fix
The Golden Barge
Wolf
Consuming Passion
The Ruins
The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius
The Mountain
A book of nine short stories dating from 1963 to 1966. I own the novel "The Golden Barge", but I haven’t read the short story before, or any of the others in this book. My favourites were "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius" and "The Deep Fix".
I like the cover picture, which shows a man from the far-future Earth of the first two stories, riding a seal-beast and being menaced by a giant leech!
Escape from Evening
The Deep Fix
The Golden Barge
Wolf
Consuming Passion
The Ruins
The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius
The Mountain
A book of nine short stories dating from 1963 to 1966. I own the novel "The Golden Barge", but I haven’t read the short story before, or any of the others in this book. My favourites were "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius" and "The Deep Fix".
I like the cover picture, which shows a man from the far-future Earth of the first two stories, riding a seal-beast and being menaced by a giant leech!
My edition with same ISBN, 1979
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Michael Moorcock, 1939 - Writer Michael Moorcock was born December 18, 1939 in Mitcham, Surrey, England. Moorcock was the editor of the juvenile magazine Tarzan Adventures from 1956-58, an editor and writer for the Sexton Blake Library and for comic strips and children's annuals from 1959-61, an editor and pamphleteer for Liberal Party in 1962, show more and became editor and publisher for the science fiction magazine New Worlds in 1964. He has worked as a singer-guitarist, has worked with the rock bands Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult and is a member of the rock band Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix. Moorcock's writing covers a wide range of science fiction and fantasy genres. "The Chronicles of Castle Brass" was a sword and sorcery novel, and "Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity" uses the character Karl Glogauer as a different person in different times. Karl participates in the political violence of the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, and a Nazi concentration camp. Moorcock also wrote books and stories that featured the character Jerry Cornelius, who had no consistent character or appearance. "The Condition of Muzak" completed the initial Jerry Cornelius tetralogy and won Guardian Literary Prize in 1977. "Byzantium Endures" and "The Laughter of Carthage" are two autobiographical novels of the Russian emigre Colonel Pyat and were the closest Moorcock came to conventional literary fiction. "Byzantium Endures" focuses on the first twenty years of Pyat's life and tells of his role in the Russian revolution. Pyat survives the revolution and the subsequent civil war by working first for one side and then another. "The Laughter of Carthage" covers Pyat's life from 1920-1924 telling of his escape from Communist Russia and his travels in Europe and America. It's a sweeping picture of the world during the 1920's because it takes the character from living in Constantinople to Hollywood. Moorcock returned to the New Wave style in "Blood: A Southern Fantasy" (1994) and combined mainstream fiction with fantasy in "The Brothel of Rosenstrasse," which is set in the imaginary city of Mirenburg. MoorCock won the 1967 Nebula Award for Behold the Man and the 1979 World Fantasy Award for his novel, Gloriana. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Scar-faced Brooder; Pepin Hunchback; Professor Lee Seward; Jephraim Tallow; Jordan Mennell; Maldoon (show all 7); Minos Aquilinas
- Important places
- South London, England, UK; Berlin, Germany
- Dedication
- For Maeve, Claire, Sebastian and Fabian Peake and in love and admiration for Mervyn Peake, who died 17th November 1968, a generous man in an ungenerous world.
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