The Sword of the Dawn Dorian Hawkmoon's quest to destroy the Dark Empire leads him onto the path of a man who possesses a rare ring that allows men to travel through time. 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. This omnibus collects The Sword of the Dawn and The Runestaff, two novels in Moorcock's acclaimed Hawkmoon series. 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. Darker in tone than other volumes in the series, the novel offers eight alternative catastrophes in a world of chaos and barbarous collapse. Each of the books into which the novels of the tetralogy are divided is prefaced with an excerpt from The High History of the Runestaff, passages which. Ĭornelius is the "English Assassin" of the title, although he spends much of the book near death himself. The Time of the Hawklords series was written with Michael Butterworth. The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming is also known as A Messiah at the End of Time. Persson and Catherine was originally titled The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century. Subtitled "A romance of entropy" it was the third part of his long-running Jerry Cornelius series. The Runestaff is also known as The Secret of the Runestaff. 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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