The Bull and the Spear
core novel 1973 The Eternal Champion
Record
| First published | 1973 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (1,745 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 159 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780583129848 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Bull and the Spear opens the Silver Hand trilogy roughly a thousand years after the first Corum trilogy, with Corum having lived out a long peaceful life beside Rhalina until her death from natural human old age. Grieving and plagued by strange recurring dreams, Corum is summoned across time to a future world where the Mabden face an existential threat from the Fhoi Myore, giant, cold-bringing beings intent on conquering their lands, and where the desperate Mabden have come to regard him as a returning demigod who can save them. Unlike his more passive role in the earlier trilogy, Corum must now actively seek sacred artifacts, the spear Bryionak and the bull Crinanass, to lead resistance against the Fhoi Myore, all while wrestling with what he owes people who worship him as something he knows he is not.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Eternal Champion
- Series: The Silver Hand Trilogy core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael Moorcock
Notes
- From the series record (The Silver Hand Trilogy): Corum's second trilogy, set generations after the Swords Trilogy.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Silver Hand Trilogy: position 1 of 3: next The Oak and the Ram (1973)
- Internal chronology, within The Eternal Champion: position 17 of 30: previous The Runestaff (1969) · next The Weird of the White Wolf (1977)
Sources
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