(urth) NPR Results

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Fri Aug 12 02:02:05 PDT 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lane Haygood 


> Moorcock was a very subversive counterculture figure in the 60s and 70s 
> and his books reflect it. Elric was written as the Anti-Conan, a sickly 
> intellectual who concerns himself too much with ethics and turns to violence 
> and demonology only as a last resort. 

The Hamlet of Swords and Sorcery?


> I recommend all of the Eternal Champion books, actually. 

I have maybe a blind spot for Moorcock.  The Jerry Cornelius and related stuff turned me off, and much of the rest seemed slight.  Probably I should take another look.  

I actually liked his non-SF effort, _Mother London_.

- Gerry Quinn
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