In “The City in the Autumn Stars,” Ulrich Von Bek’s descendant, Manfred Von Bek, has fled the bloody and terrible French Revolution, seeing both sides as fanatical and morally bankrupt.

But there are those enlisted in Hell’s ranks that do not agree with Lucifer’s decision and seek only the destruction of their changed master and his champion Along with his newfound ally, the young swashbuckler Sedenko, General Von Bek must journey into another realm known as the Mittelmarch and quest for the Grail. To help bring this about, he chooses Von Bek as his champion to find the lost Holy Grail in order to unite all opposing cosmic forces. Satan himself has turned repentant for his aeons-old insurrection and seeks reunion with God. The first novel, “The War Hound and the World’s Pain,” which in my opinion is the best of this collection, tells the story of Ulrich Von Bek, a general in Germany’s during the Thirty Years War when gruesome religious battles are tearing Europe apart in the 17th Century. This volume includes the novels “The War Hound and the World’s Pain,” “The City In the Autumn Stars,” “The Dragon in the Sword,” and the short story “The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius.” Ulrich Von Bek is one incarnation of the Eternal Champion, a warrior called from many dimensions to fight for the Cosmic Balance in the neverending war between the forces of Law and Chaos.

Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris.“Von Bek” is the second volume in the collected White Wolf editions of Michael Moorcock’s “Eternal Champion Cycle, released in the mid-90s. He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature.

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