The Shores Of Death
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When the sun stops rotating and one half of the Earth is plunged into eternal darkness while the other scorches under relentless light, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction — yet one man, Clovis Marca, cannot bring himself to focus on survival when a far more personal obsession consumes him. The Shores of Death is a classic work of British science fiction that chronicles the last days of a dying civilisation through the lens of one man's desperate, almost nihilistic quest for meaning in a world that has already surrendered to fate. Michael Moorcock, one of the most iconoclastic voices in 20th-century speculative fiction, presents here a novel that transcends the disaster-story genre to argue something far more provocative: that the human drive toward individual passion may be both our greatest flaw and our most defining virtue. Originally serialised in *New Worlds* magazine — the very publication that would reshape British SF during the New Wave movement — this tale illustrates Moorcock's signature blend of philosophical urgency, romantic fatalism, and vivid, almost mythic storytelling. Readers who believe they know how a civilisation ends will find themselves questioning everything once Moorcock is through with them.
Author: Michael Moorcock
Format: Paperback
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When the sun stops rotating and one half of the Earth is plunged into eternal darkness while the other scorches under relentless light, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction — yet one man, Clovis Marca, cannot bring himself to focus on survival when a far more personal obsession consumes him. The Shores of Death is a classic work of British science fiction that chronicles the last days of a dying civilisation through the lens of one man's desperate, almost nihilistic quest for meaning in a world that has already surrendered to fate. Michael Moorcock, one of the most iconoclastic voices in 20th-century speculative fiction, presents here a novel that transcends the disaster-story genre to argue something far more provocative: that the human drive toward individual passion may be both our greatest flaw and our most defining virtue. Originally serialised in *New Worlds* magazine — the very publication that would reshape British SF during the New Wave movement — this tale illustrates Moorcock's signature blend of philosophical urgency, romantic fatalism, and vivid, almost mythic storytelling. Readers who believe they know how a civilisation ends will find themselves questioning everything once Moorcock is through with them.