Second Ether Series by Michael Moorcock

The world is swirling with entropic decay, opening pockets of chaos that draw unsuspecting souls into a paralled universe. Blood tells the heartbreaking story of two pairs of star-crossed lovers caught between the old world, a lawless society ruled by gamblers and riverboat captains, and the new reality called the "Second Ether" in the first novel of a new fantasy trilogy.

In eleven richly detailed and interrelated stories, Michael Moorcock returns us to the remarkable expanding multiverse imagined in BLOOD - and to an imperfect world somewhat better than our own. We fly at dizzying altitudes from London squares, across high turbulent seas, to the far Sahara and beyond, all the while privy to the myriad adventures of various Beggs and von Beks, separate limbs of a family eternally rooted to the Grail in all its forms... moreIn eleven richly detailed and interrelated stories, Michael Moorcock returns us to the remarkable expanding multiverse imagined in BLOOD - and to an imperfect world somewhat better than our own. We fly at dizzying altitudes from London squares, across high turbulent seas, to the far Sahara and beyond, all the while privy to the myriad adventures of various Beggs and von Beks, separate limbs of a family eternally rooted to the Grail in all its forms. Here captive virgins shudder in impregnable towers protected by Hell and history, angels rain down from the heavens, and brilliant detectives track the heroes, villains and monsters who walk the worlds...or between them. Jerry Cornelius is here; and the mysterious, spectral Rose von Bek; the Clapham Antichrist; Elric, the brooding, albino prince of ruins - as well as the notorious White Pirate, Captain Horace Quelch, champion of sterile Law in its ongoing war against raging Chaos - players all, conscious or otherwise, in the great Game of Time. less

In the latest dazzling example of a lyrical literary genius that defies categorization, The War Amongst The Angels carries the reader across the mystical thresholds viewed from afar in Blood and Fabulous Harbors to reveal the mighty destinies and secret histories of some of Michael Moorcock's most beloved and intriguing characters... moreIn the latest dazzling example of a lyrical literary genius that defies categorization, The War Amongst The Angels carries the reader across the mystical thresholds viewed from afar in Blood and Fabulous Harbors to reveal the mighty destinies and secret histories of some of Michael Moorcock's most beloved and intriguing characters. It is the story of the incomparable Rose von Bek and her adventures on an alternate, Earth and in the Second Ether -- an infinitely wondrous place where time has no bounds and life is a river of endless reinvention. Here, also, is the love of her life, the volatile and enigmatic Sam Oakenhurst, as well as the ill-fated lovers Colinda Dovero and gambler Jack Karaquazian, who join Rose -- along with a host of exceptional companions -- to fight shoulder-to-shoulder against the agents of evil and stagnation in the ongoing conflict some call the great War in heaven; a struggle whose outcome will determine the very nature of reality itself. less

The Michael Moorcock Collection continues with this trilogy of novels featuring some of his greatest characters, and the terror of the Second Ether. Across the centuries of the human experience and the unimaginable reaches of the Second Ether, Rose Von Bek and Jack Karaquazian travel. They live by a strict moral code, gambling their sanity or their lives on the turn of a card or the roll of a dice.But the Second Ether contains a fault, a crack through which inexhaustible power flows... moreThe Michael Moorcock Collection continues with this trilogy of novels featuring some of his greatest characters, and the terror of the Second Ether. Across the centuries of the human experience and the unimaginable reaches of the Second Ether, Rose Von Bek and Jack Karaquazian travel. They live by a strict moral code, gambling their sanity or their lives on the turn of a card or the roll of a dice.But the Second Ether contains a fault, a crack through which inexhaustible power flows. Power and something else ... Something which might threaten the entire multiverse ...Contains BLOOD: A SOUTHERN FANTASY; FABULOUS HARBOURS; and THE WAR AMONGST THE ANGELS. less