City of the Beast [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New impression edition (April 1, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0450033198
• ISBN-13: 978-0450033193
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,409,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 30, 2007

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This review is from: City of the Beast or Warriors of Mars (Michael Kane, Vol. 1) (Paperback)

Moorcock has written an unapologetic, no holds barred, Burroughsian rip..errr.. riff. :) Complete with the same lack of wardrobe for the characters.

Michael Kane, a physicist, becomes involved with a project that can transport consciousness, it appears. Think Adam Strange sort of thing, complete with limited time of travel.

It also happens, than growing up, he lived near a French fencing master, who gave him many, many lessons.

Needless to say, he ends up projected to Mars, meets a princess, fights Blue Giant armies, has an evil raven haired sorceress femme fatale lust after and want to kill him, after seducing his princess' fiance, no less.

He also happens to rescue a relative, make friends with an enemy, and all that sort of thing.

Pure escapism, and a lot of fun.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite similar to Carson Napier's Cycle from ERB...., September 2, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: City of the Beast or Warriors of Mars (Michael Kane, Vol. 1) (Paperback)

Ever read ERB's (Edward Rice Burroughs)Mars Cycle ? Then you might find some correlation or even similitudes with it.
Anyway, it is still a very good book, great heroic action.
Unless in most of the book from Moorcok, the hero is not a looser from the beginning, he fights his way against all the dangers he might meet.

Read, Read, read..