Against his will, he is once again forced to choose between one of two races to sacrifice for the benefit of the other. He unwillingly takes on the mantle of Count Urlik Skarsol of the Frozen Keep. Just when Erekose finally seems to have found peace at the cost of sacrificing his former comrades and loved ones, he is yet again summoned to another parallel dimension in the multiverse in another body where he is forced to wage yet another morally questionable battle against an unfamiliar force. Haunted by nightmares and the voices of other incarnations of the Eternal Champion, he struggles to stay sane and to remain in his current body. Suffering from severe guilt and depression from his unforgivable crime, he struggles to find comfort in the arms of his lover Ermizhad. Just when Erekose finally seems to have found peace at the cost of sacrifi After abandoning his past identity as John Daker, Erekose made a choice to destroy humanity for the sake of preserving the last remaining Eldren. For Moorcock completists.moreĪfter abandoning his past identity as John Daker, Erekose made a choice to destroy humanity for the sake of preserving the last remaining Eldren. Lovers of literary introspection, rejoice! Lovers of genre fiction, avoid! Still, the novel is a stylish one. I recommend this book to those lovers of literary fiction where the protagonist engages in tireless, tiresome hand-wringing and soul-searching from cover to cover. Too bad this novel drips like a faucet, drip drip drip, the pace is as glacial as the world itself, the hero is drippy as well, so much whining and mooning about and drip drip drip.
The writing is often lovely and evocative, the names are certainly striking, the ideas are striking as well. He takes a strange schooner to travel the salty sea, to hunt, to befriend pirates, to finally meet the enemies of mankind, to use the ancients' old devices, to fly over seas to a fallen Moon, to solve mysteries and to protect the slowly dying cities of this sad counter-Earth. He sleeps, he contemplates, he longs after his lost love Ermizhad and his lost world of the Eldren, he wonders why and wonders why and wonders why. Here he is Lord of the Frozen Keep and off to Rowenarc the Obsidian City he goes, to meet the obese & evil Bishop Belphig the Lord Spiritual, to meet the ascetic & probably not-evil Shanosfane the Lord Temporal. As Ulrik he goes to a world of ice, another Earth, an Earth at the end of its days, the sun hanging red and swollen and low in the sky. And having slain my race, I was happy.He was John Daker and then he was Erekosë, he was Erekosë and then he was Ulrik Skarsol, he is the Eternal Champion, he moves through the dimensions of man when called. Here he is Lord of the Frozen Keep and off to Rowenarc the Obsidian City he goes, to meet the obese & evil Bishop Belphig the Lord Spiritual, to meet. Women: You've gotta love the way his trousers fit, plus-įlynn: Hold that thought girls.And having slain my race, I was happy.He was John Daker and then he was Erekosë, he was Erekosë and then he was Ulrik Skarsol, he is the Eternal Champion, he moves through the dimensions of man when called.
Women: There's nobody who's bolder, nobody as fineįlynn: There's no-one with a smoulder half as good as mine Guards: (alternating) And 2! 5! 8! And 10! Guards: The man is public menace number one
We're gonna rip him to bits, as soon as we can You see my posters around, I bet you're a fanĪnd when we catch that double-crossing snake Left a million ladies needing smelling saltsīut with your stolen gold, and stolen hearts I've swiped a dozen treasures, robbed a hundred vaults
0 kommentar(er)
