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The White Wolf's Son: The Albino Underground (Elric Saga)

by Michael Moorcock

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- Aspect published the previous novel in the series, The Skrayling Tree, in hardcover (0-446-53104-9) in 2003 and in mass market (0-446-61340-1) in 7/04. The prior novel. The Dreamthief's Daughter (Aspect hardcover, 2001, 0-446-52618-5; mass market, 2002, 0-446-61120-4) received praise from the Washington Post, Denver Post, and Locus, where it was featured on the 2001 Recommended Reading list.

- Aspect reissued Moorcock's classic Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen in trade paperback in 8/04. Gloriana won Moorcock the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the British Fantasy Award.

- Moorcock's Elric the Eternal Champion saga has been optioned by Universal Pictures, with Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie) producing.

- Michael Moorcock is a vanguard author, editor, journalist, critic, and rock musician, who is editor of the controversial magazine New Worlds. A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Moorcock has won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Fantasy Award, among others.

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"In British author Moorcock's latest installment in an epic fantasy saga that began in 1965, Prince Gaynor the Damned and his sidekick, Klosterheim, plot the end of the created universe and try to capture a 12-year-old English girl, Oonagh von Bek, to attain their ends. The Dreamthief's daughter, Oona (who's Oonagh's grandmother); Elric of Melnibon; and others who constantly fight to restore, maintain and sometimes destroy the Cosmic Balance seek to protect the girl and, eventually, another youngster kin to Elric and Oona. Told from the viewpoint of young Oonagh and filtered through her later adult perspective, the adventure starts in Yorkshire then spans the multiverse and several versions of Mirenburg to reach its climax in the Dark Empire of Granbretan. Informative philosophizing by various characters adds to, rather than impedes, the complex and entertaining plot. In lesser hands such intrusions as Una Persson's spiel on Elric's Dream of a Thousand Years probably wouldn't work, but from the ever original, vastly influential Moorcock (The Dreamthief's Daughter), they only enhance a triumph of mature talent and imagination. Agent, Howard Morhaim. (June 13)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

The multiple award-winning author of "The Dream Thief's Daughter" and "The Skrayling Tree" delivers a stirring new novel in his beloved Elric the Eternal Champion saga.
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Dead Air, October 1, 2008 (view all comments by Dead Air)
Moorcock claims this will be not only the last novel he writes in the Elric Saga, but it will be the last Eternal Champion novel period.

Of course David Bowie has been claiming he won't sing "Ziggy Stardust" anymore since the '70s as well...

In any case, it's a good novel, if definitely more of an EC story than specifically an Elric one. In fact, it reads on some levels a bit more like one of the Jerry Cornelius novels than an Elric one. But then how can you end an "eternal cylce" without writing from a post-modern perspective?

Despite that, there's also a major sub-plot with a child protagonist in the person of Oonagh von Bek traveling through the Moonbeam Roads in a decidedly Alicesque manner. Her companion, Reynard the talking fox is an absolutely wonderful character as well, who really comes into his own in this book.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780446577021
Subtitle:
The Albino Underground
Author:
Moorcock, Michael
Publisher:
Aspect
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Fantasy - Series
Subject:
Fantasy - Epic
Subject:
Albinos and albinism
Subject:
Swordsmen
Copyright:
2005
Series:
Elric Saga
Publication Date:
June 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
339
Dimensions:
9.10x6.32x1.27 in. 1.18 lbs.
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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "In British author Moorcock's latest installment in an epic fantasy saga that began in 1965, Prince Gaynor the Damned and his sidekick, Klosterheim, plot the end of the created universe and try to capture a 12-year-old English girl, Oonagh von Bek, to attain their ends. The Dreamthief's daughter, Oona (who's Oonagh's grandmother); Elric of Melnibon; and others who constantly fight to restore, maintain and sometimes destroy the Cosmic Balance seek to protect the girl and, eventually, another youngster kin to Elric and Oona. Told from the viewpoint of young Oonagh and filtered through her later adult perspective, the adventure starts in Yorkshire then spans the multiverse and several versions of Mirenburg to reach its climax in the Dark Empire of Granbretan. Informative philosophizing by various characters adds to, rather than impedes, the complex and entertaining plot. In lesser hands such intrusions as Una Persson's spiel on Elric's Dream of a Thousand Years probably wouldn't work, but from the ever original, vastly influential Moorcock (The Dreamthief's Daughter), they only enhance a triumph of mature talent and imagination. Agent, Howard Morhaim. (June 13)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Synopsis" by , The multiple award-winning author of "The Dream Thief's Daughter" and "The Skrayling Tree" delivers a stirring new novel in his beloved Elric the Eternal Champion saga.
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