The Knight of the Swords (Corum Series #1)

by Michael Moorcock

Overview

The ancient races, the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, are dying. By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear.
 
Prince Corum is the last remaining Vadhagh. He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos. Along the way he will barter with his soul for the limbs of gods to repair his mutilated body, and will encounter a member of the very race who caused the mutilation, the irresistible Rhalina...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783291656
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	05/05/2015
Series:	Corum Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	436,498
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters. In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Editorial Reviews

Moorcock's novel is fantasy of the high kind: faraway and long ago and weirder than you expect it to be…As the first in a series, the book has a lot of track to lay, and Moorcock does it ably, giving depth with a litany of names, variants, lore, adding in the color and shading until he achieves a kind of faraway, never-ever quality to the fantasy.

The New York Times Book Review - Charles Yu

"Corum’s story spans multiple planes of existence and includes gods, demigods, and elements of older flavor of mythic fantasy." - Barnes & Noble

"Despite the new races, strange names, and exotic locations it is incredibly easy to be swept away into the adventure." - Portland Book Review

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