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Corum - The King of Swords
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The old races have perished. Across the fifteen planes of reality, the ceaseless struggle between Law and Chaos continues. Corum, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe, has destroyed two of the company of Chaos, but Mabelode the Faceless will not see his actions go unpunished.
The Eternal Champion must call upon the power of other incarnations—Elric, and Erekosë—and travel to the last five planes to defeat the King of the Swords. At stake: not only the balance of forces at the crux of existence, but also a personal vendetta, since the captain of the enemy army is the same Mabden who slaughtered Corum’s family...
The Eternal Champion must call upon the power of other incarnations—Elric, and Erekosë—and travel to the last five planes to defeat the King of the Swords. At stake: not only the balance of forces at the crux of existence, but also a personal vendetta, since the captain of the enemy army is the same Mabden who slaughtered Corum’s family...
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“Michael Moorcock’s The King of Swords (1971), the third volume in the The Swords Trilogy (also known as The Chronicles of Corum), delivers a dark, surreal, and myth-soaked conclusion to the saga of Prince Corum. Moorcock leans fully into his talent for blending Celtic myth with sword-and-sorcery, giving us a tale both tragic and dreamlike. The book’s strength lies in its atmosphere and strange, otherworldly imagery—the landscapes Corum travels through feel alive, hostile, and uncanny.
The plot can sometimes feel more symbolic than straightforward, with Moorcock favouring mood and theme over clear narrative structure, but the sense of doom and inevitability fits the Eternal Champion cycle. As in much of Moorcock’s work, the prose swings between poetic brilliance and pulpy excess, but at its best it’s haunting and memorable.
If you enjoy grim, mythic fantasy with a touch of the surreal, The King of Swords is a fitting, if unsettling, climax to Corum’s tale less heroic adventure, more elegy for a fading world.”
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“3,5 para el libro que cierra esta saga. Cierto es que han pasado unos años desde que terminé el anterior y me ha costado un poco meterme de nuevo en la historia y si a eso le sumamos el tema del multiverso y que no paran de saltar de uno a otro durante todo el libro, cuesta un poco centrarse.
Los personajes están bien. Solo eso. Teniendo en cuenta que esta saga tiene más de 50 años y que el estilo narrativo es el de aquel momento, la imaginación de Moorcock era brillante. Me ha parecido que en toda la saga el escritor mama mucho de la mitología griega con sus grandes odiseas donde los dioses se mezclan con los humanos y los ponen a prueba continuamente.
Es una saga viejuna, pero disfrutable. Y fíjate tú que por momentos me ha recordado mucho a ciertos saltamundos muy de moda ahora dando vuelta de aquí para allá...
En definitiva, algo para leer, pero tampoco para recomendar insistentemente.”About Michael Moorcock
Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters. In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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