Phoenix in Obsidian (includes spoilers)

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#1

Phoenix in Obsidian (includes spoilers)

12-18-2003, 05:00 AM

Wow. This one was just as good as the first Erekose book. Just a few of my favorite things:

1) Urlik Skarsol wielding Stormbringer!
2) Bladrak Morningspear: a great character
3) The entire City of Moon sequence
4) The plot twist ending, with the death of the Lady of the Chalice
5) Shanosfane, another great character

So far, none of the books I've read of yours, Mike, disappointed me. I'll probably read the Sundered Worlds next.

-Jack
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#2

12-18-2003, 06:43 AM

Thanks, pard.

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#3

12-18-2003, 08:53 AM

Re: Phoenix in Obsidian (includes spoilers)

Originally posted by Jack

So far, none of the books I've read of yours, Mike, disappointed me. I'll probably read the Sundered Worlds next.

-Jack

If you're reading the Sundered Worlds, I'm sure you're not gonna be disppointed.

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Samael Son of Nergal

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#4

02-12-2011, 03:08 PM

Where to find???

Is there any publisher that is currently printing the Phoenix in Obsidian?? It is one of the EC series I have not had the pleasure of reading!!!

Samael
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02-12-2011, 03:52 PM

I daresay John Davey can help you out with a reasonably priced copy, Samael. Just drop him an email.

_"For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless.
_For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him.
_And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished.
_He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."
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02-14-2011, 03:31 PM

In a way 'Terraphiles' is the Sundered Worlds I wish I'd written!

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02-14-2011, 03:48 PM

Given your comment above Mike ("'Terraphiles' is the Sundered Worlds I wish I'd written") and in light of the fact that the 1992 Roc paperback edition of Sundered Worlds was emblazoned with the legend "The First Book of the Multiverse", would you suggest Terraphiles as a potential 'jumping on' point* for the EC saga for new readers?

*Alongside The War Hound and the World's Pain and The Eternal Champion, naturally.

_"For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless.
_For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him.
_And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished.
_He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."
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02-14-2011, 05:20 PM

Sure! Jim Cawthorn cover!

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02-16-2011, 07:31 AM

Dear Mr. Moorcock,
Just saw the cover for the Sundered Worlds, and let me say that Renark von Bek is one guy I don't want to mess with. Of course, he is a hero of mine. Oh, how I wish I was him, I say with jealousy.
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Nathaniel

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#10

02-16-2011, 12:51 PM

On an only tenuously related note: I want one of those space hats!
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02-16-2011, 02:17 PM

Originally posted by Michael Moorcock View Post

Jim Cawthorn cover!

Not George Underwood?

_"For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless.
_For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him.
_And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished.
_He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."
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Michael Moorcock

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02-17-2011, 12:29 PM

It's from a detailed rough which I'm sure Jim did, though it could have been me, too! Wrecks, of course, is Jim. I wanted Penguin to use all Cawthorn artwork on their covers but someone there didn't agree. That said, our roughs were used by the art dept when commissioning the other covers.

Pre-order or Buy my latest titles in Europe:
The Whispering Swarm: Book One of the Sanctuary of the White Friars - The Laughter of Carthage - Byzantium Endures - London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles - Kizuna: Fiction for Japan - Modem Times 2.0 - The Sunday Books - The Sundered Worlds

Pre-order or Buy my latest titles in the USA:
The Laughter of Carthage - Byzantium Endures - London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction - The Sunday Books - Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles
Kizuna: Fiction for Japan - The Sundered Worlds - The Winds of Limbo - Modem Times 2.0 - Elric: Swords and Roses
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#13

02-22-2011, 10:39 AM

When the White Wolf Omnibus came out, and had the order of:
The Eternal Champion
The Sundered Worlds
The Phoenix in Obsidion
...I had never considered that. I reread them in that order and thought that they worked perfectly that way!

Honestly, 2 of my alltime favorite books are the Sundered Worlds and The Phoenix in Obsidian. Honestly two of your best books, I think, Mike. I'm really looking forward to Terraphiles (it's on the "vacation list", so it's about 5 months away or so.) Obviously we all have some books that fire on more cylinders than others for us, and those two really sat well with me. And thus they are some of the few that I made time to reread.

"Self-discipline and self-knowledge are the key. An individual becomes a unique universe, able to move at will through all the scales of the multiverse - potentially able to control the immediate reality of every scale, every encountered environment."
--Contessa Rose von Bek, Blood part 4, chapter 12
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