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Available
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Publication
DAW (1982), Mass Market Paperback
Description
THE FINAL NOVEL IN SF GRANDMASTER MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S EPIC STEAMPUNK TRILOGY - BACK IN PRINT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 10 YEARS! Bastable encounters an alternate 1941 where the Great War never happened and Great Britain and Germany became allies in a world intimidated by Japanese imperialism. In this world's Russian Empire, Bastable joins the Russian Imperial Airship Navy and is subsequently imprisoned by the rebel Dugashvii, the 'Steel Tsar', also known as Joseph Stalin.
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LibraryThing member iftyzaidi
An entertaining conclusion to the oswald bastable trilogy consisting of more world wars, airship battles, a despotic and messanic stalin leading a cossack revolution against a Menshevik Socialist Russia in the 1940s and of course some anarchist philosophy thrown in for good measure. Despite all
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this weighty content, the plot zips along at a rapid pace and the action never relents. Show Less
LibraryThing member helver
Oswalt Bastable is at it again - this time sending a manuscript to Michael Moorcock (the author, not his grandfather as in prior volumes of the series) relating his third trip across the multiverse and his second experience with the Hiroshima bomb. We, again, encounter Una Persson and Kozeniwski
As far as I could tell, the only serious cameos were Elric as von Bek and Josef Stalin playing the role of Djashavili - a russian socialist revolutionary, egomaniac, and sociopath.
Of the three Bastable stories, I liked this one the best. Perhaps it was simply the fact that there was a definite evil and it retained its identity through to the end - unlike the first book where there was no evil or the second where the evil kept changing.
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(the airship captain) but we also see Dempsey (who originally hooked Bastable up with Kozeniwski) and Elric in the name of Max von Bek who (along with Una Persson and Dempsey) are members of the shadow group - the League of Temporal Explorers. This time, it wasn't Bastable that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima but Dempsey and this story is about how Dempsey, Persson, Bastable and von Bek are trying to right the wrongs caused by the bomb and to contain the evil unleashed upon the multiverse by nuclear war.As far as I could tell, the only serious cameos were Elric as von Bek and Josef Stalin playing the role of Djashavili - a russian socialist revolutionary, egomaniac, and sociopath.
Of the three Bastable stories, I liked this one the best. Perhaps it was simply the fact that there was a definite evil and it retained its identity through to the end - unlike the first book where there was no evil or the second where the evil kept changing.
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Original publication date
1981-12-01
Physical description
6.8 inches
ISBN
0879977736 / 9780879977733