Count Brass [Omnibus]
by Michael Moorcock
Chronicles of Count Brass (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 1-3), Hawkmoon (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 5-7), The Eternal Champion (Collections and Selections — Hawkmoon novels 5-7)
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This 15th volume of The Eternal Champion series contains the novels of the Chronicles of Count Brass: Count Brass, The Champion of Garathorm and The Quest for Tanelorn. In the epic saga, we find Dorian Hawkmoon and his beloved Yisselda five years after the defeat of the evil empire of Granbretan. They have rebuilt Kamarg, the land once ruled by the now dead Count Brass. But the dead count returns and seeks to avert the death he met in the Battle of Londra by slaying the one who led him there show more -- Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Koln. This is the final volume in the acclaimed Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock. The series has collected, in newly edited and rewritten form, all the tales of various incarnations of this fantasy master's most famous meta-character, the Eternal Champion. show lessTags
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Michael Moorcock would have you believe that the Eternal Champion is the pawn of Chaos, or Law, or the Balance, or some other supernatural force. Well, it turns out that this so-called supernatural force is actually the whims of the author himself.
In Count Brass, there are collected the latter three Hawkmoon books: Count Brass, The Champion of Garathorm, and The Quest for Tanelorn. Moorcock forces poor Dorian Hawkmoon to face all manner of trials, including the loss of his wife, the loss, once again, of his dear friends, the loss of his children, and even the loss of his identity.
While the end of each novel takes away a huge chunk of hope, Moorcock also leaves the reader with a glimpse of hope. And eventually, he leaves the Champion show more with more control of his own destiny than he’s ever before had.
This volume marks an excellent bookend to the chronicles of the Eternal Champion, and while it seems an end, we all know that if there is a wildly successful story or intriguing cast of characters, the story is never truly over. show less
In Count Brass, there are collected the latter three Hawkmoon books: Count Brass, The Champion of Garathorm, and The Quest for Tanelorn. Moorcock forces poor Dorian Hawkmoon to face all manner of trials, including the loss of his wife, the loss, once again, of his dear friends, the loss of his children, and even the loss of his identity.
While the end of each novel takes away a huge chunk of hope, Moorcock also leaves the reader with a glimpse of hope. And eventually, he leaves the Champion show more with more control of his own destiny than he’s ever before had.
This volume marks an excellent bookend to the chronicles of the Eternal Champion, and while it seems an end, we all know that if there is a wildly successful story or intriguing cast of characters, the story is never truly over. show less
Nice if overlong wrap-up to the entire Eternal Champion saga that focuses primarily on Dorian Hawkmoon. The first offering of the three here is the best with the last being way too drawn out. Still, you can never get too much Elric, Hawkmoon, Urlik, John Daker, Erekose, Corum, and not to forget Von Bek.
I actually have both the US and UK editions of this one.
I actually have both the US and UK editions of this one.
Count Brass: http://www.librarything.com/review/25450659
The Champion of Garathorm: http://www.librarything.com/review/26456558
The Quest for Tanelorn: http://www.librarything.com/review/26456581
So I grabbed the three books contained in this volume as I headed out for a two week vacation on the other side of the pond. I had recently finished up the first four Hawkmoon books and thought that I'd just go ahead with the Hawkmoon cycle. It wasn't until the end of [The Quest for Tanelorn] that I realized that this wasn't just the end of the Hawkmoon cycle, but the end of the entire Eternal Champion cycle. I probably should have read them in order, but I just didn't know what kind of problems I'd be causing by jumping out of sequence.
Oh well - show more I guess I need to go backfill my Eternal Champion reading now. show less
The Champion of Garathorm: http://www.librarything.com/review/26456558
The Quest for Tanelorn: http://www.librarything.com/review/26456581
So I grabbed the three books contained in this volume as I headed out for a two week vacation on the other side of the pond. I had recently finished up the first four Hawkmoon books and thought that I'd just go ahead with the Hawkmoon cycle. It wasn't until the end of [The Quest for Tanelorn] that I realized that this wasn't just the end of the Hawkmoon cycle, but the end of the entire Eternal Champion cycle. I probably should have read them in order, but I just didn't know what kind of problems I'd be causing by jumping out of sequence.
Oh well - show more I guess I need to go backfill my Eternal Champion reading now. show less
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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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Chronicles of Count Brass
3 works (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 1-3)
Hawkmoon
7 works (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 5-7)
The Eternal Champion
63 works (Collections and Selections — Hawkmoon novels 5-7)
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- Canonical title
- Count Brass [Omnibus]
- Original title
- The Chronicles of Castle Brass
- Alternate titles
- Count Brass
- Original publication date
- 1993 (Collection) (Collection); 1973 (Count Brass) (Count Brass); 1973 (The Champion of Garathorm) (The Champion of Garathorm); 1973 (The Quest for Tanelorn) (The Quest for Tanelorn)
- People/Characters
- Dorian Hawkmoon; Count Brass
- Epigraph
- Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of man in his last years...
&n... (show all)bsp; - The History of the Runestaff
And when this history was done there followed it another. A romance involving the same participants in experiences perhaps even more bizarre and awesome than the last. And again the ancient Castle of Brass in marshy Kama... (show all)rg was the centre for much of this action...
- The Chronicles of Castle Brass - Dedication
- To all those Nomads, especially Ian, Dave, John and Maureen, and, of course, Shane, Paul, Ed and Moe - for all their good friendship, support and enthusiasm over the years.
- First words
- It had taken all these five years to restore the land of Kamarg, to repopulate its marshes with the giant scarlet flamingoes, the wild white bulls and the horned great horses which had once teemed here before the coming of t... (show all)he Dark Empire's bestial armies.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This ends the long story of the Eternal Champion.
- Original language*
- Englisch
- Disambiguation notice
- This book is the Omnibus of Count Brass books, and should not be combined with the single book 'Count Brass'.
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