The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation]

Name: The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation]
Brand: Graphic Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Michael Moorcock
ISBN: 9781648793646

Author: Michael Moorcock

Series: Corum #1

Narrator: Nick DePinto, A Full Cast, Bob Payne, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Patrick Bussink, Nanette Savard, Todd Scofield, Ken Jackson, Tracy Olivera, Andy Clemence, Eva Wilhelm, Chris Genebach, Thomas Keegan, Matthew Keenan, Evan Casey

Unabridged: 5 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: GraphicAudio

Published: 06/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

The ancient races, the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, are dying. By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear.

Prince Corum is the last remaining Vadhagh. He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos. Along the way he will barter with his soul for the limbs of gods to repair his mutilated body, and will encounter a member of the very race who caused the mutilation, the irresistible Rhalina...

About Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on September 30, 2019

This first volume in the Corum series is entertaining, in its own bleak Moorcockian way. I can tell already that this is my kind of fantasy, where the world is not necessarily benign and the heroes have something alien and superior in their very souls instead of being just regular guys with magical......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 19, 2023

I started reading about Corum in the second trilogy The Bull and the Spear / The Oak and the Ram / The Sword and the Stallion. So, this trilogy felt like a prequel / origin story. The start of Corum's story is really brutal. People talk about grimdark fantasy and the level of gore on show, but Moorco......more

Goodreads review by SVETLANA on July 20, 2023

This is my first Mookcock's book, but I hope it is not the last one. This was a time when there were living Goods and big changes in the world. Vadhagh and Nhadragh are ancient people that are under extinction. Mabden new mankind that takes over the world. And in this unstable situation, Vadhagh Prin......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on June 23, 2021

Every Elric/Corum book I've ever read is cool as shit. I know Moorcock is pretty famous, but I still feel he's one of the most underrated fantasy writers out there.......more

Goodreads review by Tony on April 06, 2018

Another reading: when I feel the need, I return to Moorcock, it’s like coming home. This re-read reminded me of my impressionable teen years when I believed I was going to be a rock star; that will now have to wait until I retire. I can wait. Meanwhile I am going to enjoy this series once again and......more