The Bull and the Spear Dramatized Ad..., Michael Moorcock
The Bull and the Spear Dramatized Ad..., Michael Moorcock
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The Bull and the Spear [Dramatized Adaptation]

Author: Michael Moorcock

Series: Corum #4

Narrator: Nora Achrati, Bradley Smith, A Full Cast, Christopher Graybill, Lawrence Redmond, Nanette Savard, Andy Brownstein, Kenyatta Rogers, Tracy Olivera, Colleen Delany, Tim Getman, Andy Clemence, Chris Genebach, Matthew Keenan

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: GraphicAudio

Published: 06/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

In the ancient Castle Erorn, Corum of the Scarlet Robe dwells in isolation and sorrow. He has out-lived his great love, Rhalina, and is tormented by voices in his dreams—a crowd of shadowy figures chanting his name. Unable to ignore their calls for help any longer, he will travel through eons of time to an age of tragedy, where the people of Tuha-na-Cremm Croich, descendants of Rhalina, are persecuted by the giant gods of the Cold Folk.
A great black bull has the power needed to defeat the monsters of a new age. But to tame the bull, the Eternal Champion must travel to the fatally beautiful island of Hy-Breasail to find the invincible and magical Spear Bryionak...

About Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on July 11, 2024

This book was published in 1973, my copy dates from 1976, and I acquired it from a second-hand book shop in 1979 (for 10 pence - the cover price is 50p). This is a slim book that makes my own relatively short debut seem positively bulky. I estimate it at 50-60,000 words, and given that Moorcock could......more

Goodreads review by Bill on August 03, 2019

The second Corum trilogy begins with our aging one-eyed, one-handed hero being summoned into a future world (which looks a lot like ancient Ireland) to battle seven powerful interlopers from another plane. Echoes of old Gaelic mythology abound, and—as usual—the writing is brisk, the tone is brooding......more

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on July 04, 2019

Loved everything about this story. The continuation of Corum’s saga is well thought out, consistent, and fitting; Moorcock doing a wonderful job setting up our champion’s emotional state at the beginning of the tale the seamlessly inserting him into a new environment with shadowy villains, who are e......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 13, 2022

Contains some spoilers for the previous books in this series! Corum is now worshipped as a legendary hero after his successful battle against the sword rulers, the gods of law and the gods of chaos. The influence of crooked higher beings has been completely severed from his realm and everyone in his......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on September 15, 2021

This trilogy is a much darker trilogy that the first (and that's saying something) In these if you're familiar with Irish folklore I think you'll recognize a retelling of the Nuada or Silver Arm or Silver Hand, (King of the Tuatha Dé Danann) legend. Corum not being human has had to face the fact that......more