I just joined the website yesterday and I am overjoyed to be able to exchange thoughts with the great Moorcock. Ok, now to my question. How far in earth's future (beyond the 20th century) does the Runestaff series take place ? :?:
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I'm just starting the Runestaff series and have a question
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Hi, CeeTee.
I always saw the series to be set in a mythical past, but such is the brilliance of the multiverse that there is much room for interpretation. I can't speak for the man himself, but that was what I thought. :)
Welcome to the forum!Call me cockey, but if there\'s an alien I can\'t kill, I haven\'t met him and killed him yet!
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OK, I was just trying to get across that life in the multiverse doesn't follow a linear path. As Mike once mentioned, trying to add linearity to the multiverse can cause all sorts of problems. What he's suggested: 'if we think of space as a dimension of time, we get an altogether different understanding which allows a broader ability to negotiate these dimensions.'
So you see, it could very well not be 'in the future', but on a different plane altogther.
P.S. I never stated it as fact, but merely what I thought.Call me cockey, but if there\'s an alien I can\'t kill, I haven\'t met him and killed him yet!
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Hi, CeeTee -- I did set the Hawkmoon series in 'our' future, but if you'll forgive me plugging a forthcoming book, you'll see in The White Wolf's Son that Hawkmoon's world could even, under certain conditions, exist contemporaneously with Elric's...
The time in our future would be at least a couple of thousand years.Pre-order or Buy my latest titles in Europe:
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Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles - Kizuna: Fiction for Japan - Modem Times 2.0 - The Sunday Books - The Sundered Worlds
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I'm afraid you;ll never know the whole story because I don't know it!
Sorry, pard.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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free ourselves from pedantic rhetoricists everwhere :)
Originally posted by Michael MoorcockI'm afraid you;ll never know the whole story because I don't know it!
Sorry, pard.
:lol:
Did I forget any mythical place set apart from this world? Indubitably! You forgot Utopia and.. ..
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the Runestaff and the Castle Brass books are maybe the best "starting point" into the whole story - somehow i have the feeling that it all ist understandable best with "The Quest for Tanelorn" - reference point for all sthe stories imho. and it surely has to get involved in the Elric film and get a prominent place in the ultimate Elric omnibus edition - which i hope will be edited.
the multiverse is, after all, one - therefore a universe. we may discover much out there, but after all, the really important things are in us - and it all comes from and leads to the one - the highest good, the highest principle, our origin and the goal of all our strive. beauty, love, truth. the human being, a free being, all actions either leading through nihilism into destruction, or through passion into felicitousness - our highest destiny, we all now of somehow, but we keep searching as long as we ask, as long as we are on the way. just a short summary (no completeness intended) on the whole thing as i understand it. :)
also congrats on the completition of the cycle. you are the Balzac of the 21st century now :D
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The beauty of the EC cycle is that so much is left to the reader's imagination. Other authors might give you glossaries and footnotes and extensive histories- MM gives you what you need to know to understand the story and lets you fill in the rest yourself (with just a few tantalizing glimpses here and there into the mythical underpinnings of his creations). Hawkmoon could be in our world's future, it could be one of many futures for our world, or a world tangent to ours. And given that time flows in many directions across the multiverse (for example, an event that Corum remembers as being in his past, occurs in Elric's future), there isn't really any reason to exclude the idea that the Runestaff cycle occurs in our past, especially if this-Hawkmoon's world could even, under certain conditions, exist contemporaneously with Elric's
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Originally posted by MadGodIn The sword of the Dawn, when Hawkmoon and D'averc travel to Yel to seek Mygan (IIRC) there are discussions about 'posion air'.The cat spread its wings and flew high into the air, hovering to keep pace with them as they moved cautiously toward the city. Then, as they climbed over the rubble of what had once been a gateway and began to make their way through piles of weed-grown masonry, the cat flew to the squat building with the yellow dome upon its roof. It flew twice around the dome and then came back to settle on Jhary's shoulder. - The King of the Swords
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