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Chamnior " marks enc By Skot Garrick Garrwcock Staff Wrttar The Eternal Champion is one of the longest running series of science-fantasy genre. It is the closing in the serips rhrnnirlint* fh#> w o time-spanning Champion Eternal series by British writer Micheal Moorcook. Moorcook is one of the most durable of fantasy writers, and many ways the most conit: : '' ? ? uwcisicii. oia science ncuon books and short stories fearlessly Oates' d.. tfl.-i. r*i uy morn v/viova 11 Assistant Entertainment I I find my own enthusiasm ab unrestrainable. It seems as if any might ever have possessed has beei total and oersuasive absorntion It even read the book, but more that I li words lifted from the page, beyond 1 a more iconic, visual level. It is as reels within my head like a fragmented, to be sure, yet in o together with utter clarity and sweep Joyce Carol Oates' newest novel continues to grow within me, even w was read. The mental debate rag< tinues toward realization, and like s< a complex consistency emerges, c becomes clear. Son of the Morning rises in a rath( so many fragments dangling in sp mnnf r\f o fnmiliv in \1 infill yjk C& JLCtllllijr to V^icai . 11IU V Vickery, the oldest son of the family the water tower, seeking revenge, se of wild dogs that have long plagued "He waited and it seemed to him th lifted from the river would urge the the breeze and half fancied he coi upon it. He had no doubt thev wou would slaughter them one by one. sooner or later ; if not today, then sui The scene that follows involves a p and the object of desire is one of pas: BAM 1 ti ir- \ a i nt v> Thursd I 7:00 I at the I I Fforn^l c? A JU<kV/A.AAMA VJ\ I of 21-boo attempt to break free of the usua boundaries of literature. The Jerry Cornelius Tetrologj revolves around a James Bond type of character who does drugs is bisexual, listens to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and eventuallj helps to destroy half the humar race. Moorcook began the Champior Eternal series in the early sixties beginning with the character o Elric. The series involved a strean newnc BT Editor out this book nearly ' critical objectivity I i cast to the wind by a ^ seems urmxeiy mai i p ived with it, and that its * literal interpretation to though the entire book spell-binding movie; dd moments merging )ing insight. I, Son of the Morning, eeks after the last word *s on, symbolism con) many links to a chain, * web of relationships 3r perplexing light, like ace, yet the establish 'ickery's. It is Ashton who we now find atop ieking to destroy a pack I the rural community: at the fresh breeze that or true n dogs to him; he sniffed horrifyii jld discern their scent paradox Id turn up and that he Oates It would come to pass not that >altr fAmArrnti; '* nrhn OIA? V-iJ IV1I1U11UW. . . YTI1V aivi rack of a different kind, is poeti< sion rather than hunger entire b Dl I -1; pt U i Hi WS IHr i ID rAK I WITH *NDELi ay, August 30 - 9:00 p.m. WcBrvde Quae iries finale k chronide I of charcaters who are unwitting bodys for the roaming spirit of the ' Champion Eternal. The characters live in different lands and times in , a series of alternate realities. The > main characters in the story are ' Elric of Melnibone, Dorian 1 Hawkmoon, Prince Corum and John Daker. 1 Daker is the central character of , the latest and last in the Champion f series. Daker is a man who lives in i the Twentieth Century but is pulled welbeai /w\i4 T f imrnlirrvf L1 Inn A ofrvn'o irAiinflAt* i 1CW. It I11VU1VCO JL^AOC*, ZlOlUil d ^UUU^Cl 1 lg gang rape in which she is left f< ically now carries the seed of salvation introduces from the very first page ar of the narrator, but a voice of an omni! le understands the workings of all thinj ; and prophetic and weaves itself thi took, allowing Oates to articulate in m i ry i i i i i i :5 j d I I I I I I i I I I I I I I \ (Behind the T llMWIIBimillllMIII* IMIilE I?IW? HI?1 from this world to a Middle Ages stage world to be their ancient Champion, Erokose He can remember another time when he existed in Erokose's to defend the 1 *u:? u..4 u,. puwjiic ui mis wui iu, uui ut: tun also remember the world of the Twentieth Century. Although The Eternal Champion was intended to be the first of the two-book John Daker series, it has been released after the other Daker book. Phoenix in Obsidian. Phoenix, written to be the closing title in the Daker story, was released over one year ago. With the publication of the Eternal Champion, the story has reached a 21-book total. The series has run over three different publishing houses, and the utifully i beautiful way the worki Here is how the siginifi second voice: "The lif< terrible constrictions of spirit as it was fashion pain as the eyelids wer k yells and kicks and squ a to be born . . . Your V blessing upon him . . 1 And <;n Flea rnnrpivp* t to his grandfather at tl voice." a Thus the child, Natha fife God's work. From the creation of a vast evanj t-- Nathan unfolds. The ch; than the standard reha greatly increased with 1 Yet there are enough tw keep even an atheist res Oates draws from a v Nathan's story, especi i/\i 1 mm r f irf K Ki/%11 i - juui iicjr mi UU5" "cl,i *' stretched to every horis sister, and a were trapped in ice, in j Dr dead but chins, even up to their colder than Nathan ha? lother voice, Such hurt jn every brea scient power To gay any m0re on >s. The voice much. As I have s? oughout the pregnation, there is ] a lush and vjsi0n, there is living sj ANIGI WITH >ACH O Fi lAcrlnw Co i u^auu y , s-ic 7:00 p.m. - homos Cooper essential characters have had many cross-overs within the story. The first of the new series of Champion Eternal Books was The Count Brass Trilogy by Dell. Elric followed in his own series beginning in the mid-seventies. Over the next few years, the six-book Elric series, the seven-book Hawkmoon series, the six book Corum series and the two-part Daker series hit the stands at various time intervals. The long-running Champion Eternal Chronicles has finally been completed with the summer's end release ot The Eternal Champion. It is a fitting title, for it sums up the sporadic and somewhat unpredictable schedule the series followed to completion. written ngs of her own stop' icance of the rape is clarified by this ebeat, the jolting of the womb, the the womb's wall, the struggle of his ed into flesh: the lightning flash of e pierced forever . . . screams and awls and now a ruthless impatience creature, with the mark of Your >, yet the child is different claim ing hio ocTo r*f oioht "T'n/\ I 1 i~ < >- ^i6ni., i vc iiearu jcsus s in Vickery, sees his fate destined to i beginnings as child preacher to gelistic empire, the turbulent life of ances of such a story being little less shing of the rise and fall would be writers of lesser stature than Oates. 'ists on the traditional theme here to iding with considerable passion vide range of references in creating ally his visions; one of which, his s straigni out 01 bweaenborg: "ice :on. What was this place? Creatures solid ice . . . to their breasts, to their mouths; it was a coldness ten times d known previously. Ah, such cold! th." Son of the Morning would be to say aid, there are dogs, there is violent glorious birth, there is illustrious alvation, and there is an end 1 HT &PI IKI pt. 4 until I I . I % i: n library J I BMKMI UIBIMIWMMIHWKKBBbwBIBBW