The Land Leviathan Author:Michael Moorcock Seeking to unravel the mystery of his circumstances, Captian Oswald Bastable visits the Temple of the Future Budda and is flung through time into a different 20th Century, where an appalling global war, masterminded by the Chilean inventor O'Bean, has plunged the world into anarchy, plague, and savagery. — Bastable finds himself caught up in espi... more »onage, piracy, and war-mongering. He tastes the joys of racial harmony in South Africa under Gandhi's regime, but then falls in with Black Attila, bent on establishing Negro supremacy throughout the world. Bastable accompanies him on his invasion of America. After an epic air and sea battle with the Austrailian-Japanese fleet, the African Hordes reach America, now governed by superstition, disease and the Ku Klux Klan. Here Bastable sees in action the most terrible weapon ever devised as the Black Attila conquers New York and Washington. It is the Land Leviathan, a ziggurat on wheels, a moving mountain of armoured artillery which finally enables the realization of Black Power on an unimaginable scale.
Unimaginable, that is, by anyone but Michael Moorcock, who in this sequel to "The War Lord of the Air" has rewritten the history of the 20th Century in his own totally original sytle. Aficionados will recognize at once the biting satire and astonishing imagination of this master story-teller in the creation of his lastest fantasy-world; new readers will relish the discovery.« less