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Hawkmoon (Eternal Champion #3)
Experience Michael Moorcock's infamous multiverse and the journeys of the Eternal Champion. Hawkmoon chronicles the fate of yet another aspect of the Eternal Champion, Doriam Hawkmoon, Duke of Koln. This collection of stories features revised text and a new Introduction by the author. "Five hundred pages of the best heroic fantasy you'll ever find."--S.F.
Paperback, 646 pages
Published
October 2nd 1995
by Millennium
(first published January 1st 1992)
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Hawkmoon was much more straightforward, and thus somewhat less interesting but also less annoying, than Von Bek or The Eternal Champion. It's a four-part novel, and very much a straight lone-hero-against-evil-empire adventure. One of the problems I have with Moorcock in general (at least in this multiverse) is that because the villain is always Chaos, it has zero subtlety - the villains rape and torture and perform hideous experiments because they're the villains, not out of any sort of serious...more
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• While this book was exceedingly entertaining, I find myself a little more confused about the Eternal Champion as a whole. In the small sections in between books, The High History of the Runestaff kept referring to Hawkmoon as an aspect of the Eternal Champion. He obviously was not the same person as John Daker and Erekose. He had no mention of Ermizhad, and, in fact, he fell in love with someone else. While these stories have only the smallest strings connecting them to anything to do with the...more
May 09, 2012
Nev Percy
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This isn't 'review' writing as such, but I just wanted to say this here... Moorcock paints a vivid scene, engages the action and resolves it -- achieving his effect with remarkable economy of words, and therefore allowing rich events to proceed at a cracking pace.
Hawkmoon is strongly reminiscent of Elric and Corum, which is a bit too recognisably formulaic (nobles of lost cultures, possessed of special power, but which is not strictly under their control and comes at a price) and invoking the E...more
Hawkmoon is strongly reminiscent of Elric and Corum, which is a bit too recognisably formulaic (nobles of lost cultures, possessed of special power, but which is not strictly under their control and comes at a price) and invoking the E...more
The serbian edition of Hawkmoon, translated as "The Knight of Destiny", ,sporting a barbarian wielding a flail by Frazzeta on the cover, probably in order to attract more buyers. I think the fact that Moorcock wrote the adventures of Hawkmoon in three days explains everything about the book: the superficial characters, the random deus-ex-machina driven plot, the mediocre villains. Still Moorcock succeeds in creating an interesting steampunk atmposhere in this post-apocalyptic fantasy setting, fl...more
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/runestaff.htm[return][return]This is a collection of Moorcock's series of four mid-1960s novels, The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God's Amulet, The Sword of the Dawn and The Runestaff, originally collected in 1992 as Hawkmoon and now repackaged as part of Gollancz' Fantasy Masterworks series. It comes with a foreword to the 1992 edition by the author which aims to lower the reader's expectations: he modestly dismisses any idea that there is a "sophisticate...more
The future events of the tragic millennium transform the world. Harold Wilson and Winston Churchill are distantly remembered only as gods by the inhabitants of Great Britain who transform their ancient love/hate relationship with the mainland by penetrating her with a giant bridge and ravishing Europe repeatedly.
Hawkmoon, the Duke of Cologne, defeated in his first rebellion against the beast mask wearing British, is the champion of the runestaff. Fated to fight to preserve order and unwilling to...more
Hawkmoon, the Duke of Cologne, defeated in his first rebellion against the beast mask wearing British, is the champion of the runestaff. Fated to fight to preserve order and unwilling to...more
This third volume in the Eternal Champion cycle is a nice escapist swords and sorcery plot set in a distant-future-post-apocalyptic Europe which is slowly being taken over by the Dark Empire of Granbretan. There is plenty of over-the-top swordsmanship and heavy use of Deus Ex Machina, but within Moorcock's framework of the eternal champion and the cosmic balance/runestaff I think it works. The narration was for the most part less cynical and preachy in this storyline than in the first two Eterna...more
Consisting of The Jewel in the Skull; The Mad God's Amulet; The Sword of Dawn; The Runestaff.
This was blase, really. Nothing Hawkmoon faced seemed overwhelming, nor was he really likable like Corum, nor ultra-tragic like Elric. And then he doesn't die in the end. It felt like a thin vegetable soup
This was blase, really. Nothing Hawkmoon faced seemed overwhelming, nor was he really likable like Corum, nor ultra-tragic like Elric. And then he doesn't die in the end. It felt like a thin vegetable soup
To say anymore than that it's great and I loved it would require another spoiler warning, so I won't I suppose. I'll just say that some will think that again the writing is a little weaker than in the Elric stories, but I don't think so. It's a bit more abrupt, a bit more plot driven, but it's one of my favorites. It's also still a somewhat "light" page turner (at least in some ways. There is depth, but it doesn't jump out at you)as are most of the Eternal Champion Cycle.
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No es exactamente esta edición la que tengo, creo que es una bastante más antigua que incluye todos los libros, aunque parece que esta también los incluye.
I was pretty disappointed in this - that's tough for me to say about a Moorcock book, and usually my expectations are pretty much dead on about what's delivered, but in this case this one just wasn't that much fun to read. It was okay, I didn't hate it, but the story is moved forward almost entirely by deus ex machina (which is a phase I never thought I'd actually use), so after a while there's really no suspense or excitement, because you know some crazy random thing will happen which saves eve...more
Nov 25, 2012
Carlos Serrano Nouaille
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Mucho mejor en su inicio y en su tramo final. Moorcock dispone las piezas de una forma magistral en el primer volumen (La Joya en la Frente) y la batalla final transcurre de un modo apasionante e hipnótico en el último (segundo y tercer libro de El Bastón Rúnico). Entre medias, la historia flojea y se vuelve algo más aburrida, pero el ciclo conserva en su totalidad el sabor de una gran novela de aventuras. El placer del pulp contado con una capacidad de síntesis y de invención nunca igualada. Qu...more
A favorite of my youth. Tastes change. Seems to contrived now.
Enjoyed this much more than 'Von Bek' and 'The Eternal Champion' though slightly surprised by the rushed ending.
Recommended by Ken as an intro to Moorcock.
What more do I need to say-it's vintage Moorcock, part of his Eternal Champion Cycle-set in a post-apocalyptic future earth. Not nearly as doom and gloomy as some of his other works, it also reads pretty quickly.
A steam punk Elric with wicked visuals.
really great fantasy book, i've only just started with Moorcocks work but i loved this. very rushed and crammed with ideas but still great- similar to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that it's like a game of spot-the-reference (took ages to get that Narleen is New Orleans) and there's loads in here that i haven't figured out yet. i would recommend this to fans of Alan Moore and probably fans of Hawkwind too... very good, on to the next now!
Great fun and your standard fantasy setting either.
Viihteellistä Moorcockia parhaimmillaan. Suoraviivainen, maraton-kuntoinen, rasvaprosentti tasan nolla. Pelkkää asiaa: sankari, tehtävä, suoritus, tulos. Matkalla siistejä vihollisia ja parilla vedolla upeasti toteutettuja sivuhahmoja.
Dec 22, 2012
Alexander Case
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Very well done post-apocalyptic Fantasy novel. Hawkmoon is a much better, and much more likable protagonist then Elric of Melnibone is.
OMG - this was awful. Note to self - read with caution book recommended by husband.
Classic Moorcock with lots of swashbuckling, tragedy and mad fantasy ideas.
Hawkmoon is my favorite iteration of the eternal champion.
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Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956,...more
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Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956,...more
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