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title=lhaygood@gmail.com href="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com">Lane Haygood</A>
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<DIV>> Moorcock was a very subversive counterculture figure in the 60s and
70s </DIV>
<DIV>> and his books reflect it. Elric was written as the Anti-Conan, a
sickly </DIV>
<DIV>> intellectual who concerns himself too much with ethics and turns to
violence </DIV>
<DIV>> and demonology only as a last resort. </DIV>
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<DIV>The Hamlet of Swords and Sorcery?</DIV>
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<DIV>> I recommend all of the Eternal Champion books,
actually. </DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I actually liked his non-SF effort, _Mother
London_.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>