Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived at the Geek Compound.
Doctor Who: Coming of the Terraphiles
by Michael Moorcock
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Miggea – a world on the very edge of reality. The cusp between this universe and the next. A point where space-time has worn thin, and is in danger of collapsing. And the venue for the grand finals of the competition to win the fabled Arrow of Law. The Doctor and Amy have joined the Terraphiles – a group obsessed with all aspects of Earth’s history, and dedicated to re-enacting ancient sporting events. They are determined to win the Arrow. But just getting to Miggea proves tricky. Reality is collapsing, ships are disappearing, and Captain Cornelius and his pirates are looking for easy pickings. Even when they arrive, the Doctor and Amy’s troubles won’t be over. They have to find out who is so desperate to get the Arrow of Law that they will kill for it. And uncover the traitor on their own team. And win the contest fair and square. And, of course, they need to save the universe from total destruction.
Doctor Who in the Multiverse! Yeah, buddy!
The Sunday Books (Les Livres du dimanche)
by Michael Moorcock
Illustrated by Mervyn Peake
Promo copy:
(The following originally appeared in French on the publisher’s site. It was translated using Google.)
In 1946, Mervyn Peake, novelist, poet, illustrator of Treasure Island, Alice, The Hunting of the Snark, and author of the Gormenghast trilogy, moved with his family to the island of Sark. Against the boredom of Sunday Island, he introduces the ritual of Sunday Books, notebooks in which he drew for his two sons, improvising the illustrations for stories full of fantasy.
Sixty years later, Michael Moorcock, a giant of English letters, friend of Peake and promoter of his work, reinvents the rhymes, limericks and the extravagant adventures that formed the soundtrack of those lost images. Two great minds and players interact through time and a family treasure is returned to us intact in its magic.
Beautiful book that sadly only exists in this French language edition.
Sojan the Swordsman and Under the Warrior Star
by Michael Moorcock and Joe R. Lansdale
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Planet Stories presents two science fantasy adventures in one volume from literary legends Michael Moorcock and Joe R. Lansdale!
Moorcock’s Sojan the Swordsman revisits the author’s very first published character, the original incarnation of the Eternal Champion. Rewritten and expanded from its original appearance, this is the tale of the hero Sojan Shieldbearer as he travels across the planet Zylor encountering strange races and even stranger monsters in a fast-paced adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett.
In Lansdale’s never-before-published novella Under the Warrior Star, Olympic fencing contender Braxton Booker is hurtled into universe in miniature, where he must lead the inhabitants of the forest world of Juna against their oppressive overlord—a tentacled, mind-probing monstrosity known only as The One.
The less said about this cover, the better.