‘A Nomad Of The Time Streams’

A Nomad Of The Time Streams

London: Millennium, 1993 (March 11th) hardcover and simultaneous trade-sized paperback;
part of the Tale Of The Eternal Champion (U.K.);
original prices: £14·99 (h/c), £10·99 (p/b);
iv + 457 pages;
I.S.B.N.s: 1-85798-033-6 (h/c) & 1-85798-034-4 (p/b);
cover artist: Mark Reeve.

A Nomad Of The Time Streams is an omnibus of Moorcock’s proto-steampunk trilogy featuring Oswald Bastable, the Nomad of Time, which (like the Cornelius books) tackles head-on the legacies of British imperialism; Empire gone sour. It is a revised retitling of an earlier omnibus, The Nomad Of Time (1982), both collecting The Warlord Of The Air (1971), The Land Leviathan (1974) and The Steel Tsar (1981). A Nomad Of The Time Streams featured the first U.K. appearance of uncensored text for The Warlord Of The Air, as well as a substantial expansion/revision of The Steel Tsar; it was also, in 2013, title-reverted back to The Nomad Of Time.

London: Orion, 1996 (June 10th) mass-sized paperback;
sub-titled “A Scientific Romance” on title page;
original price: £6·99;
iv + 549 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-85798-448-X;
contains minor textual amendments.

**Trade paperback (simultaneous 1st ed., not to scale).**

First American edition: Clarkston, GA: White Wolf hardcover, 1995 (June);
sub-titled “A Scientific Romance” on title page;
part of the Tale Of The Eternal Champion (U.S.);
edited by John Davey;
original price: $19·99;
viii + 424 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 1-56504-179-8;
cover artist: Chris Moeller (also interior).

**States “revised”, but** (in this instance) **should be more accurately ‘containing minor textual amendments’.**

**Clarkston, GA:** **White Wolf trade-sized paperback, 1997 (April);**
original price: $14·99;
I.S.B.N.: 1-56504-194-1;
with (further) **minor textual amendments/corrections.**

Contents (first editions):-
p. iii: untitled introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 1: The Warlord Of The Air (as The First Adventure: The Warlord Of The Air on title page);
p. 157: The Land Leviathan (as The Second Adventure: The Land Leviathan on title page);
p. 299: The Steel Tsar (as The Third Adventure: The Steel Tsar on title page).

Contents (American editions):-
p. vi: Introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 1: The Warlord Of The Air (as The First Adventure: The Warlord Of The Air on title page);
p. 147: The Land Leviathan (as The Second Adventure: The Land Leviathan on title page);
p. 277: The Steel Tsar (as The Third Adventure: The Steel Tsar on title page).

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