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Thys,lundi 13 juin 2005, 10:26 a écrit :A ta place j'essaierai Hawkmoon... Thys

tasslehoff,mercredi 29 juin 2005, 19:11 a écrit :Au passage, quelq'un pourrait me dire ce qu'est The War Amongst Angels?

The universe is Michael Moorcock's playground in this picaresque "autobiography" of his putative relation Rose von Bek. Rose, born in London in the mid-20th century to Sir Arthur and Lady Eleanor Moorcock, learns her love of wandering from the gypsies who gather near her father's estate. At 7 she decides on a career as a highwayman, at 17 she marries the not-entirely-respectable Count von Bek, and soon thereafter she meets her lover and companion-in-arms Sam Oakenhurst. Rose quickly discovers that she can enter the Second Ether and travel at will between the conventional world and a rollicking, quasi-infinite multiverse where the Chaos Engineers hold sway. At the same time, Sam's friend Jack Karaquazian and the beautiful Colinda Dovero conduct a romantic tragedy on a cosmic scale. It's Scaramouche meets Douglas Adams as Rose and her friends fight the War in Heaven against the Dark Angel Lucifer.

SynopsisIn a career that spans more than five decades, Michael Moorcock has done more than any writer to demolish the confines of genre in English Literature. His prodigious output has made an indelible impact on the science fiction of the golden age and the literature of the counter-culture. More recently his work has radically revised the London of our shared experience and created startling new readings in the history of the last century. Now Moorcock introduces an anthology of breathtaking scope and ambition iin which he seeks out new connections between the fiction, poetry and journalism that has informed and covertly constructed the imaginative landscape in which we live. From creation of the Yellow Book to the radical feminism of Andrea Dworkin, from teh mars of Edgar Rice to plans for an inland sea in the heart of the Sahara, from the high modernism of the mid-century to Moorcock's Miscellany is an anthology unlike any before conceived. The Miscellany is both a personal guide to the literature that has inspired one of our greatest writers and a history of our times seen through a study of its unacknowledged legislation.