Nomad of the Time Streams (Michael Moorcock's The Eternal Champion Series, Volume 1) (Hardcover)

by Michael Moorcock (Author)

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Strange worlds occupy the infinite multiverse. They are worlds very much like the Earth we know--worlds that but for a vew differences could be our own. Visit an Earth where historical fact is turned on its head; slavery remains a practice in the United States. This is the fourth volume in the epic. Includes The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, and The Steel Tsar. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 484 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; Subsequent edition (December 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565041798
• ISBN-13: 978-1565041790
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #690,392 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cautionary Socialist Recasting of History, March 26, 2002

By	Mark D Burgh "Music, Writing, Art, Film, Hist... (Fort Smith, AR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: A Nomad of the Time Streams (Paperback)

Michael Moorcock's Nomad of the Timestreams is a political statement of deep profundity wrapped in an imperialist candy-coating of red uniforms, zeppelins, and ripping yarns.

Moorcock's multiverse is never better here. Oswald Bastable, ripped from his home in the Railway Children Series by E. Nesbitt, is part of the British Empire in 1902. Like a Kipling story, he finds himself doing the dirty work of imperialism unthinkingly. He is punished by being sent into an alternate history seventy-odd years in the future. There he tries to reassemble his life, but finds his sense of social justice is too much, and ends up working for anti-imperialist terrorists. The books are rife with real historical figures turned into their ugliest form, and in each racism is the central conflict, and no matter what he does, or what his good intentions are, Bastable always ends up at the forefront of mass destruction namely twice dropping nuclear weapons.

This is a work on the 1970's with its politicals worn bravely on its sleeve, still, Moorcocks vision is soaked with justice and through the adventures in various apocalyptic landscapes, one is as much entertained as educated.

Brilliantly written, well-researched, a dazzling performance equaled only by his Dancers at the End of Time series.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Steampunk Eternal Champion, September 12, 2001

By	Chino Fernandez "techtor" (Quezon CIty, Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Nomad of the Time Streams (Paperback)

I have the Millenium edition of this collection.

Moorcock has brought the Eternal Champion into almost every sub-genre of speculative fiction - sword and sorcery, post-apocalyptic, time travel, space opera, and with this one, steampunk. I count the steampunk Eternal Champions as among the more exotic heroes in the genre, and they are all made colorful by Moorcock's fast-paced storytelling and extensive imagination.

Oswald Bastable was an ordinary British officer. He just did his job. Then he got knocked out in an Asian temple. When he wakes up and walks out, he finds himself in a new reality: airships rule the skies, land fortresses roll over the plains and airplanes were a revolutionary concept in air combat. A totally new world, and he still must play his role in it as a servant of the balance. Like any Eternal Champion book, this is an essential.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Moorcock's most enjoyable EC volumes., December 15, 2003

By	M. Keisler "PhilosophyMusicMan" (AZ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: A Nomad of the Time Streams (Paperback)

This is a book that mixes political commentary with fantastic voyages. Being more of prone to reading sword and sorcery types of novels, I was a bit apprehensive going into this one, but it kept me turning the pages until the end.

Our hero is thrust through a series of alternate realities for how our world might have turned out if certain turns of events were different. There isn't really anything magical or fantastic about these alternate realities, which is what makes it exciting. You feel like things could have been that way.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable departure from dark sorcery and demons of other Eternal Champion novels - not that I don't love those!