Series
Oswald Bastable
Michael Moorcock · 3 novels · 2 short stories · 1971–1981
Oswald Bastable follows an Edwardian-era British soldier flung into a series of alternate futures where the First World War never happened, opening with The Warlord of the Air (1971). Across the trilogy he drifts between rival empires and airship wars, an early and influential example of what would later be called steampunk. Michael Moorcock's A Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy sits within his wider multiverse of linked worlds and recurring avatars of the Eternal Champion.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Oswald Bastable at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s4
- 1980s1
Shape
3 novels · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:alternate historywaralternate earthearly 20th centuryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Land Leviathandarkest · calmest
- The Warlord of the Airbrightest · most intense