completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc

David Duffy · 09 Aug 2011, 22:40 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: davidD at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:40:43 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) completed version -  Donaldson, Moorcock etc
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:

> And if we take Moorcock, the use is quite the opposite. He takes a rich deep 
> story and "flattens"  it to suit in some very straightforward way his 
> purposes.

Moorcock's more complex works are the Cornelius novels, _Byzantium 
Endures_ series, _Gloriana_, Dancers At the End of Time_, _Behold the 
Man_, _Warlord of the Air_ and its sequels.  The Elric stuff was written 
at great speed, and it shows (he would write a short novel in three days 
;)).

So, I don't think it's quite a fair comparison.  The allusiveness and 
strangeness of the Cornelius novels is a better place to start, if you are 
looking for depth.

Cheers, David Duffy.

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