Phoenix in Obsidian: Being the Second Book of 'The Eternal Champion' (Mayflower Science Fantasy) [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mayflower Science Fantasy | Publication Date: April 22, 1971

Reprinted UK edition, 1976 by Granada Publishing Ltd. by Michael Moorcock - second book in "The Eternal Champion" series

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (April 22, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0583118003
• ISBN-13: 978-0583118002
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,288,809 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 John Daker and the Black Sword, August 7, 2008

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This review is from: Phoenix in Obsidian: Being the Second Book of 'The Eternal Champion' (Mayflower Science Fantasy) (Paperback)

John Daker knows no peace, and after having made, as Erekose, a VERY questionable thing (see The Eternal Champion), maybe serves him right. or maybe he was a pawn of Higher Powers in the Multiverse? He finds himself in a world similar to that of The Ice Schooner, but much more dreary. He is evoked as Ulrik Von Skarsol, and he doesn't find his summoner. Certainly it's not the lecherous, paedophilic Bishop Belphig, a man of unspeakable vices who rules as Lord Spiritual ( a not so veiled mockery of the Catholic Church, I think) a hellish City of Decadence. Bishop Belphig abandons him during a hunting expedition, where Daker is urged to find the Black Sword (none other than Stormbringer, says the dwarf Jermays the Crooked) Daker doesn't want no black sword, he only wishes to return to his Eldren love Ermizhad. He will find his summoner and learn more of the nature of the Multiverse and of Eternal Tanelorn; his ordeal will continue in The Dragon and the Sword.
The adventures of John Daker are a crooked, crazed existential metaphor that's pure Moorcock as its best.

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

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This review is from: Phoenix in Obsidian: Being the Second Book of 'The Eternal Champion' (Mayflower Science Fantasy) (Paperback)

Also called the Silver Warriors, Erekose made his choice, and fought against humanity. With them destroyed, he has no choice but to find solace with the Eldren.

There is no rest for the Eternal Champion though, and again he changes, Urlik Skarsol is now Erekose and Erekose is Urlik, prince of the Southern Ice. He just wants to get back to his lover, but fate has other plans.

He also now has the Black Sword, the stealer of souls, and it has much work to do before Erekose can rest.