The Warlord Of The Air is the first volume 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.
‘Benediction: Excerpt From The Warlord Of The Air’ first appeared (under that title) many years after the original novel, and comprises the second half of Book Three, Chapter Five: ‘The Coming Of The Air Fleets’.
First appearance: Steampunk
San Francisco: Tachyon, 2008 (May) trade-sized paperback;
edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer;
original price: $14·95;
x + 373 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-892391-75-9;
cover artist: Ann Monn;
introduction by Jess Nevins.
Foreign (i.e. non-English language) editions:-
Steampunk as Steampunk, Poland (2011); Steampunk!, Italy (2014); Steampunk, Spain (2017).
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