The War Amongst the Angels - Softcover

Moorcock, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380780798 ISBN 13: 9780380780792

Publisher: Avon Books, 1998

Synopsis

Follows the struggles of Rose von Beck, her lover Sam, and friends Colinda and Jack, who, on an alternate Earth, engage in the ongoing conflict known as the great War in Heaven during which the nature of reality itself is at stake. Reprint.

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Review:

The universe is Michael Moorcock's playground in this picaresque "autobiography" of his putative relation Rose von Bek. Rose, born in London in the mid-20th century to Sir Arthur and Lady Eleanor Moorcock, learns her love of wandering from the gypsies who gather near her father's estate. At 7 she decides on a career as a highwayman, at 17 she marries the not-entirely-respectable Count von Bek, and soon thereafter she meets her lover and companion-in-arms Sam Oakenhurst. Rose quickly discovers that she can enter the Second Ether and travel at will between the conventional world and a rollicking, quasi-infinite multiverse where the Chaos Engineers hold sway. At the same time, Sam's friend Jack Karaquazian and the beautiful Colinda Dovero conduct a romantic tragedy on a cosmic scale. It's Scaramouche meets Douglas Adams as Rose and her friends fight the War in Heaven against the Dark Angel Lucifer.

About the Author:

Michael Moorcock and his wife have homes in the United States and Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0380780798
• ISBN 13: 9780380780792
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298