Michael Moorcock in general

I have a young son who is a keen reader and is currently reading through the Harry Potter series of books, ( probably for the third or fourth time). I have read the first two of them myself and do find them an engaging and clever read. However, they are aimed at a young audience and I would hope that his taste for magical 'sword and sorcery' will eventually lead him into reading the books of the great science fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. Moorcock has written prodigously, he has constructed entire worlds in which the protaganists are strange people of other worlds, and yet are, wonderfully, quite believable when the book is being read. Moorcock has ...

This review is not about any one book by Michael Moorcock, but about all of his works of fiction. If you have ever read any of this author's works, you will have some idea what I am talking about. If you haven't, well, read on. All of Moorcock's works share a common theme, although this is not always evident. This theme is ' The Eternal Champion'. All of Moorcock's heroes are actually incarnations of a single persona or entity, "The Eternal Champion", although many of these heroes know anything of any of their other incarnations. Some remember snippets of other lives, as if dreams, barely remembered yet vaguely familiar. ...