Prince Corum is the last of the Vadhagh, his family and people brutally slain by the Mabden. Vowing to wreak vengeance on the killers, Corum sets out on his terrible quest only to fall in love with a beautiful Mabden woman, and to confront the fury of the Lords of Chaos. For they fear that he is the hero who could tip the balance in their cataclysmic war with the forces of Law and free his world from Chaos's vicious grip.
His epic struggle against them and his ultimate victory is only bought at a considerable price. Moorcock's evocation of a rich, dark world, a time of magic, phantasms, cities in the sky, oceans of light and wild flying beasts of bronze is one of the pinnacles of modern imaginative literature.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK (Londres, 1939) es un prolífico escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía británico-estadounidense. También es editor, periodista, crítico, compositor y músico de grupos de rock como Hawkwind. Moorcock es particularmente conocido por sus novelas sobre el personaje de Elric de Melniboné, que fueron una influencia seminal en el campo de la fantasía en las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Como editor de la revista New Worlds impulsó la nueva ola de la ciencia ficción en el Reino Unido e indirectamente en los Estados Unidos, contribuyendo al desarrollo del ciberpunk.
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