Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull

Michael Moorcock

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Fantasy legend Michael Moorcock won hundreds of thousands of readers with his vast and imaginative multiverse, in which Law and Chaos wage war through endless alternative universes, struggling over the fundamental rules of existence.

Moorcock's heroes of the multiverse have been lauded as some of the most influential characters in fantasy. Among the Eternal Champions, Dorian Hawkmoon is one of the most loved. In the far future, Hawkmoon is pulled unwillingly into a war that will eventually pit him against the ruthless Baron Meliadus and the armies of the Dark Empire. Antique cities, scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines serve as a backdrop to this high adventure.

Dorian Hawkmoon, the last Duke of Koln, swore to destroy the Dark Empire of Granbretan.  But after his defeat and capture at the hands of the vast forces of the Empire.  Hawkmoon becomes a puppet co-opted by his arch nemesis to infiltrate the last stronghold of rebellion against Granbretan, the small but powerful city of Kamarang. He's been implanted with a black jewel, through whose power the Dark Empire can control his every decision. But in the city of Kamarang, Hawkmoon discovers the power inside him to overcome any control, and his vengeance against the Dark Empire is filled with an unrelenting fury.

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1 COUNT BRASS
Count Brass, Lord Guardian of Kamarg, rode out on a horned horse one morning to inspect his territories. He rode until he came to a little hill, on the top of which stood a ruin of immense age. It was the ruin of a Gothic church whose walls of thick stone  were smooth with the passing of winds and rains. Ivy clad much of it, and the ivy was of the .owering sort so that at this season purple and amber blossoms .lled the dark windows, in place of the stained glass that had once decorated them.

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Rob  rated it  
Oct 19, 2011
Still remains one of my favourite sagas..... ...more
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Mike (the Paladin)  rated it  
Nov 21, 2010
Maybe not quite as good as Elric, form a "coldly logical" point of view, but I have a real soft spot for the Hawkmoon novels. This is close to the edition I read first (same cover but I read it in '74). These novels (2 Hawkmoon series) could be called the culmination of the Eternal Champio ...more
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Pepper  rated it  
Aug 29, 2010
This book is perfectly balanced. Just enough action to keep it light and fast paced, just enough character to make you care. If I had a scale of 1-10 instead of just five, this book would get a full ten. ...more
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MICHAEL MOORCOCK is a prolific English science fiction and fantasy writer. He is the author of the Eternal Champion books, including the Elric, Corum and Hawkmoon series, as well as the literary novel Mother London. He lives in Texas.

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Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull
Michael Moorcock

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January 2010
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