burton (07/02/82)
This is a trivia quiz, based on excerpts from the book
'The Eternal Champion' by Michael Moorcock. In the book,
the hero Erekose has dreams about 'other incarnations'
of the Eternal Champion. Try to identify as many of the
heroes, and the books they are taken from:
Part I: Dreams
1) I saw towers and marshes and lakes and armies and lances
that shot flames and metallic flying machines whose wings
flapped like those of gigantic birds. I saw monstrously
large flamingoes, strange masklike helmets resembling
the faces of beasts.
2) I saw dragons -- huge reptiles with fiery venom, flapping
across dark, moody skies. I saw a beautiful city tumbling
in flames. I saw unhuman creatures that I knew to be gods.
I saw a woman whom I could not name, a small red-headed man
who seemed to be my friend. A sword -- great, black sword
more powerful than the one I now owned -- a sword that perhaps,
oddly, was myself!
3) I saw a world of ice across which strange, great ships with
billowing sails ran and black beasts like whales propelled
themselves over endless plateaux of white.
4) I saw a world -- or was it a universe? -- that had no horizon
and was filled with a rich, jeweled mosaic atmosphere which
changed all the time and from which people and objects emerged
only to disappear again. It was somewhere beyond the Earth,
I was sure. Yes -- I was aboard a spaceship -- but a ship that
traveled through no universe conceived of by Man.
5) I saw a desert through which I stumbled weeping and I was alone --
lonelier than any man had ever been.
6) I saw a jungle -- a jungle of primitive trees and gigantic ferns.
And through the ferns I saw huge, bizarre buildings and there was
a weapon in my hand that was not a sword and was not a gun, but it
was more powerful than either.
7) I saw Earth, but this was an Earth without a moon, an Earth which
did not rotate, which was half in sunlight, half in darkness
relieved only by the stars. And there was strife here, too, and
a morbid quest that as good as destroyed me. A name -- Clarvis?
Something of that sort.
8) I saw Earth -- a different Earth again, an Earth which was so old
that even the seas had begun to dry up. And I rode across a murky
landscape, beneath a tiny sun, and I thought about Time... Another
name -- the Chronarch. Then it faded.
9) I stood in a city beside a large car and I was laughing and there
was a strange sort of gun in my hand and bombs were raining from
planes and destroying the city. I tasted an Upmann cigar.
10) I walked, insane and lonely, through corridors of steel and beyond
the walls of the corridors was empty space. Earth was far behind.
The steel machine in which I paced was heading for another star.
I was tormented. I was obsessed with thoughts of my family.
Part II: Names
Give the full name, and the story or novel that each name is taken from:
1) Aubec
2) Byzantium
3) Cornelius
4) Colvin
5) Bradbury
6) London
7) Melnibone
8) Hawkmoon
9) Lanjis Liho
10) Powys
11) Marca
12) Elric
13) Muldoon
14) Dietrich
15) Arflane
16) Simon
17) Kane
18) Allard
19) Corum
20) Persson
21) Ryan
22) Asquiol
23) Pepin
24) Sewart
25) Mennell
26) Tallow
27) Hallner
28) Koln (with an umlaut over the 'o')
29) Carnelian
30) Bastable
Mail your answers to me, inuxc!burton, and I will post the answers
on the net in a couple of weeks, along with the name of the winner.
Doug Burton
Bell Labs, Indianapolis