What book are you reading at the moment? Part 2

[Doc]

Just finished Blood. What a mindblower, I'm going to have to re-read MM's Multiverse and maybe The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Starting Fabulous Harbors.

Outstanding! Jack is probably my favorite eternal champion. I read the Second Ether before I read MM's Multiverse, but it turns out the Jack K in my head looks a whole lot like Simonson's. Sam--a little less so.

[thingfish]

Having just read The LSD Dossier(which was excellent)

Well, just you be sure to let Mike know that, tf. I agree with you, it's one of my favourite Moorcock novels - and my favourite Nick Allard novel - even though Mike himself doesn't have a very high opinion of it (or at least he didn't before it was put online; I don't know if he's read it since then).

Will do Brother M

[Kevin McCabe]

Thanks for the tips, Doc. This really was a great book. Took me a while to catch on to the interface between the pulps and the narrative, but it paid off in the end.

[johneffay]

Kevin, if you get through the Second Ether series and find yourself wanting more, you might want to give Mad Scientist/Carter Kaplan's Tally Ho Cornelius! a go for further adventures of the Chaos Engineers, although in a slightly different vein.

Now read on...

[Doc]

Thanks for the tips, Doc. This really was a great book. Took me a while to catch on to the interface between the pulps and the narrative, but it paid off in the end.

I agree. At first, the only thing I could figure was that Mike included the Corsair stories to show some of Sam's quirks. Then I got it. That aspect gets even more important in The War Amongst the Angels.

I also like Rose a great deal in this series.

I also have to agree with johneffay... Carter's take on the Corsairs of the Second Ether extends Mike's ideas without feeling toothlessly derivative. It is a lot of fun, as well as a genuinely thought-provoking read.

Keep us posted!

[thingfish]

Just rattled through Warlord in the air this afternoon,am away to open Land Leviathan tonight!!

[Kevin McCabe]

Half way or so Fabulous Harbors. Thanks for the pointer on MS work, Doc and John. I'll be looking that up!

[Governor of Rowe Island]

Just finished Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress and (dare I say it?) you can tell Elric of Melniboné was written to fill in a back story. That's not to detract from the story itself, which races along and keeps you turning the pages (as did The Sleeping Sorceress itself.) Nevertheless, the feeling remains after reading it that if Mike had written the series from start to finish, he would have had things begin very differently to end up where it did. It was strange feeling to realise that.

Back to the Haggard now with Ayesha: The Return of She. The omnibus itself is published by an Indian company and there are just enough typos in She to keep me wondering whether I was getting it as it was meant to be. The second story hasn't started out well in that respect; the introduction by the 'Editor' was mixed up with only the first and last pages in the right places! Fingers crossed for the rest of the text.

Spinrad's 'Iron Dream' is lined up next.

[Kevin McCabe]

So Gov, the part I was taking about

occurs on pp 286-289. Elric and Rackhir are fighting the three demons Pig, Snake, and Thing. All three demons ferociously cling to their individuality by shouting their names. Thing, who is the last to be dispatched, dies uttering what I assume is his real name: Frank.

Cornelius?

[Governor of Rowe Island]

So Gov, the part I was taking about

occurs on pp 286-289. Elric and Rackhir are fighting the three demons Pig, Snake, and Thing. All three demons ferociously cling to their individuality by shouting their names. Thing, who is the last to be dispatched, dies uttering what I assume is his real name: Frank.

Cornelius?

Oh yeah, I forgot, Kevin. Yep, that's how I understood it too. I do like those little bits like that.

Like where the Nhadragh sorceror (I forget his name and I did an index job on the Swords trilogy for the Wikiverse!), in The King of the Swords, summons a demon called Yyrkoon.

But...! Who made up the other parts? Elric thought there were about three people in there!

[Kevin McCabe]

Maybe Jerry and Catherine?

[Doc]

So Gov, the part I was taking about

occurs on pp 286-289. Elric and Rackhir are fighting the three demons Pig, Snake, and Thing. All three demons ferociously cling to their individuality by shouting their names. Thing, who is the last to be dispatched, dies uttering what I assume is his real name: Frank.

Cornelius?

And such a Cornelius family theme-- playing games of identity...

[Kevin McCabe]

My thoughts exactly, Doc. Though maybe its Harlequin?

[Doc]

Well, there it is, Kevin-- Who IS Harlequin at any particular moment...

I also have to think,

does that make Pig and Snake some combination of Jerry and Catherine?

[Kevin McCabe]

Well, Doc, I'll have to have another look (no mean feat, as I packed up the library today - painting/flooring next couple of weeks). I need to see if

Elric was thinking there were at least three people solely in Thing