List Based On Books The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #4)
Title | : | The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #4) |
Author | : | Michael Moorcock |
Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
Published | : | September 15th 1987 by Ace (first published 1970) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Heroic Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Science Fiction Fantasy. Dark Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy |
Michael Moorcock
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.97 | 8239 Users | 110 Reviews
Description During Books The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #4)
Elric of Melniboné, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World's Edge, the golden-skinned Kelmain hordes, King Urish the Seven-fingered with his great cleaver Hackmeat, the Burning God, the Sighing Desert, and the terrible stone-age men of Pio. Although Elric holds within him a destiny greater than he could ever know, and controls the hellsword Stormbringer, stealer of souls, his task looks hopeless - until he encounters Myshella, Empress of the Dawn, the sleeping sorceress...Details Books As The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #4)
Original Title: | The Vanishing Tower |
ISBN: | 0441860397 (ISBN13: 9780441860395) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | The Elric Saga #4, Elric Chronological Order #5 |
Characters: | Corum Jhaelen Irsei, Moonglum, Elric of Melniboné, Erekosë, Theleb K'aarna, Myshella, Jhary-a-Conel |
Rating Based On Books The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #4)
Ratings: 3.97 From 8239 Users | 110 ReviewsNotice Based On Books The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #4)
I am not very well-versed in the tropes of heroic fantasy, but Elric , the albino emperor of Melnibone, seems an unusually morose protagonist for such a genre. Not that he is without reasons for feeling down. He is, more properly speaking, the ex-emperor of Melnibone, and he saw to its destruction himself. Stormbringer, his mighty runesword that seems to have a mind and appetite of its own, has taken the life of his one true love, and he has lost other lovers and companions along the way. AsSo, three novellas, structurally identical, wherein each the same lame antagonist threatens something that Elric wants preserved simply because he hates the antagonist, who returns from prior installments with new armies (one for each novella here) and new versions of the Fell Sorcery, only to be--surprise!--countered by Elric & Co., when they very luckily accidentally find a useful numinous object or when they very originally and unintuitively invoke the aid of some divine patron or other,
Elric mopes his way into a fourth book in pursuit of the sorcerer who escaped him in the third. At this point I'm pretty sure Elric's superpower is making things worse for himself. Probably comes from carting around that sword all the time. Worse than the One Ring, that thing.The Vanishing Tower has some good ideas and nice imagery, but I could reprint most of my critique of the last book and it'd be just as valid. At least Elric gets a vacation for a while.
I liked this somewhat less than a few of the previous books in the Elric Saga, but only because it had less of the nearly meta-multiple-worlds eternal hero/villain in it except for the last tale. The rest of it seemed very natural for a sword and sorcery adventure and rather plain. You know, a mysterious woman, albeit overpowered and in need of more overpowered help, almost throwing herself at evil (debatable) albino Elric after he avows he needs nothing, not even a reason to do whatever he
Elric of Melnibone makes his return in what will no doubt be acclaimed as one of the very best chapters in the saga of the doomed albino prince. While many of you may recall reading this installment in the series as The Vanishing Tower, Mr. Moorcock has made substantial alterations to the text.Signed edition is limited to 300 copies, each signed by Michael Moorcock, Tyler Jacobson, and Walter Mosley.
beware voilodion ghagnasdiak! you have stuumbled upon one of the great works of written artsome of best stuff ever written in fighting fantasywould be 10movie series and best box office if made into film without social justice bs addedthere is enuf moralizing trust meThe Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Elric, #2)by Michael MoorcockU 50x66Jackvanc3gmail.Com's reviewSep 11, 2016 editit was amazingRead in January, 1988ever meet your clone from another of the universes in the multiverse? and have to
I was disappointed with book 3, but this one was as good as the first 2.
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