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From: nancy@MIT-HTVAX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: any moorcock fans out there?
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:40:41 EDT
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From: nancy@MIT-HTVAX.ARPA


    I've just emerged from an extended tour of the works of Michael
    Moorcock (the two Corum trilogies, the Elric series, and the Castle
    Brass series), and I found them all quite enjoyable. The story of
    the 'champion eternal' that bridges across all the various series
    was one I was quite captivated by, and I especially liked the way
    that while any individual series dealt with one particular
    incarnation, fate would, at times (and in what seemed to be to be a
    very logical manner, at all times consistent with the 'laws' of that
    particular plane of the multiverse), throw a few of the incarnations
    from other series into the picture.

    I'd like very much to read more sf with this feature (bug? :-)) ...
    can anyone think of what other authors do this, and do it well?

The only one I can think of off hand is a Poul Anderson novel "Three
Hearts and Three Lions".  I can recommend this as a good read as well
as being on the theme you're looking for.  It's about a man who
suddenly finds himself in the world of knights and ladies with no
memory about himself.  It seems he has a job to do, and everyone
around knows who he is (but they don't know what he's planning to do)
and they try to either help or hinder him based on what they know
about him and which side they're on.

Have fun.

Nancy Connor
nancy@mit-htvax