Yes, Hawkwind. It is absolutely impossible to get a grip on teh totality of the Eternal Champion thing, but the links are more metaphorical than plot-based - characters recur in different guises as incarnations of themselves (it happens outside Moorcock - Buffy is the Eternal Champion to a T). I've never managed to get through Elric myself. But you should really try the bastable trilogy (starts with Warlord of the Air), the Cornelius Quartet and the Dancers at the End Of Time sequence.
oswald Bastable - possibly the grown-up hero of E Nesbit's books - is a cavalry soldier who, in "our" 1904, finds himslef transported to a variety of alternate 1974 - the first is where the Pax Brittanica still holds, another where prester John invades the USA - and gets involved with the League of Temporal Adventurers (yeah, Alan Moore is to Moorcock what Oasis are to the Beatles).
The Cornelius quartet is '60s psychedelic scifi, hugely influential on cyberpunk, utterly insane.
Dancers at the end of time is a weird fin-de-seicle fantasia, again massively influential, in which a decadent fop from the End of Time falls in love with a Victorian woman-about-town. It's beautiful.
Talking from a position of 'a long time ago I used to know a very little bit about French literature' my impression is that Racine is very very French. Moliere is broad comedy that translates well; Racine, not so much.
I also studied German, admittedly in a half-assed fashion, for 2 years in college and cannot think of a single German playwright, excepting whatsisname, Mr. Mack the Knife, and do musicals count? Maybe the Germans do not write plays.
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Of course Brecht! Duuuuuuuh. Bad brain, no biscuit.
One need only glance at this anthology's [Cravings] lineup of authors to know that it's bound to be loaded with kinky, creative sex. And indeed, that's exactly what Hamilton delivers in "Beyond the Ardeur," which uses the setting of a wedding to bring back virtually the entire cast of characters from her popular series about necromancer Anita Blake. While Hamilton's fans will enjoy revisiting these night creatures, some may be disappointed to find that this tale is all sex and no slaying; the only mystery is which paranormal hunk(s) will satisfy Anita's ardeur.
Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh dear.
Betsy, I saw that book at Barnes & Noble over the weekend -- LKH's name is writ large on the cover, so I was compelled to at least see if it was Anita Blake or Merry Gentry.
When I read the description, I put the book down and backed away, giggling.
So is it fic if the original author is ficcing her own series?
