![]() ![]() Joanna Russ described the novel as "less vividly raw" but "sadder, stranger, more crafted, sometimes more beautiful, and far more complex" than the series' opening volume. ![]() ![]() The usual glittering array of supporting characters such as the anarchist Una Persson, the occasionally evil Miss Brunner, Professor Hira and the grotesque Bishop Beesley make their appearances amid the rubble of swinging London with the rest of Jerry's colourful clan-his blousy mother, villainous brother Frank and the doomed angelic Catherine. Take That: The Dark Empire is arguably Moorcock's take that against the mainstream British culture of the 60s, with its smugly self-satisfied attitude and its nostalgia for the faded glories of the empire. Darker in tone than other volumes in the series, the novel offers eight alternative catastrophes in a world of chaos and barbarous collapse. Ĭornelius is the "English Assassin" of the title, although he spends much of the book near death himself. Subtitled "A romance of entropy" it was the third part of his long-running Jerry Cornelius series. The History of the Runestaff is made up of four novellas: The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God’s Amulet (also published as Sorcerer’s Amulet ), The Sword of the Dawn, and The Runestaff, all of which recount Dorian Hawkmoon’s struggle against the Dark Empire. The English Assassin: A Romance of Entropy is a 1972 novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, first published in the UK by Allison & Busby and in the US by Harper & Row. ![]()
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