Von Bek by Michaek Moorcock

[Rahl Windsong]

I was at the library the other night, just kind of browsing, then I checked out Von Bek by Michael Moorcock and I have barely been able to put it down since! The story is about a man, Captain Von Bek, who's soul has been damned to Hell. He strikes a deal with Lucifer to release his soul if he can retrieve the Holy Grail. Lucifer thinks the Grail will cure the world's pain and if he can cure the world's pain perhaps God will notice him and begin the process towards salvation, Lucifer wants back into heaven

Excellent read I highly recommend it!

Rahl

[Tsujigiri]

It's sat on my shelves, and is indeed an excellent book, but I am a Moorcock fan anyway

[Rahl Windsong]

Aye did Moorcock also write of Conan the Barbarian? This seems to ring a bell.

Rahl

[Alia]

Nope, he didn't. Robert E. Howard wrote Conan the Barbarian.

[fungi from Yuggoth]

Well, lots of people wrote of Conan the Barbarian, including Robert Jordan and Harry Turtledove. These were all pastiches though, and are, with a few exceptions, mostly trash. The originals were written by pulp maestro Robert E Howard during the thirties.

Michael Moorcock wrote of Elric, Corum, Hawkwind, Jerry C, and many others. But never Conan.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by fungi from Yuggoth

Well, lots of people wrote of Conan the Barbarian, including Robert Jordan and Harry Turtledove. These were all pastiches though, and are, with a few exceptions, mostly trash. The originals were written by pulp maestro Robert E Howard during the thirties.

Michael Moorcock wrote of Elric, Corum, Hawkwind, Jerry C, and many others. But never Conan.

Well, yes and no. Actually, he did write some Conan material in his early career, though I don't believe any of the actual stories have been published. He was asked by Ted Carnell to give him a sword and sorcery hero like Conan, so he wrote Conan. When Ted responded he was looking for something in the genre, but with a twist, Moorcock decided to go as different as he could, and thus Elric was born. He also scripted, with Roy Thomas, two issues of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian comic (#'s 14 and 15) bringing Conan and Elric together, along with Prince Gaynor the Damned and Xiombarg of Chaos. So -- he did and he didn't.