Melbourne’s Middle Future
Tom Shippey, 7 January 1988
The Dragon in the Sword
by Michael Moorcock.
Grafton, 283 pp., £10.95, July 1987,0 246 13129 2 Show More
by Michael Moorcock.
Grafton, 283 pp., £10.95, July 1987,
Fiasco
by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel.
Deutsch, 322 pp., £11.95, August 1987,0 233 98141 1 Show More
by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel.
Deutsch, 322 pp., £11.95, August 1987,
“... than just passively ‘reflecting’. The centre of Turner’s book is a cry for more information. Michael Moorcock’s The Dragon in the Sword has nothing at all to do with any of these concerns, and on the face of it, it is hard to see how the two books could belong in the same genre. Perhaps Moorcock’s should be reclassified as fantasy, for it is ... ”