Hawkmoon : The Eternal Champion

Hawkmoon : The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781857984378.

The earth has grown old, her landscapes mellow, her people lost in a brooding dream: an age of antique cities, scientific sorcery, crystal machines, great flying engines with mechanical wings. And relentlessly the armies of the Dark Empire, mile by brutal mile, ravage and destroy the once-peaceful city states. None is able to resist – until Hawkmoon... The Dark Empire has humiliated and mutilated Dorian Hawkmoon, but it cannot rob him of two consuming passions – his love for Yisselda of Brass and his hatred of her ruthless suitor Meliadus. But first, he must seek the secret of the mysterious Runestaff, a quest that will send him into barbaric wonder and perverse evil, desperate to avert the doom of all the world. The third omnibus volume, complete and fully authorised, of Michael Moorcocks great fantasy sequence, The Tale of the Eternal Champion. Containing: The Jewel in the Skull The Mad Gods Amulet The Sword of the Dawn The Runestaff