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The Golden Barge: A Fable

Michael Moorcock

First published December 1979
Type Novel

<b>From the back cover of the DAW first printing:</b> ""Then the mist eddied. Out of it, purposefully and with dignity, loomed a great golden barge, a barge which glittered with a light of its own. Tallow was astounded. He looked at the towering shape, agape. He was no longer the integrated and impenetrable thing he had been, for he had not taken the golden barge into account before. He became worried that the barge should not escape as it passed. It disappeared into the mist again..." <p>Jephraim Tallow's fantastic quest for the golden barge is the theme that runs through this unique novel. Unique in that it was Michael Moorcock's original novel in whose pages can be found the basic elements that were to emerge in his Eternal Champion novels as well as in his worlds of Jerry Cornellius, Karl Glogauer and Una Persson."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1979 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable Savoy Books Novel
October 1980 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable DAW Books Novel 13
October 1980 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Novel 13
January 1982 Cover Die goldene Barke Goldmann Novel
July 1983 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable New English Library Novel
July 1984 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable New English Library Novel
February 1985 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable New English Library Novel
June 1986 Cover The Golden Barge: A Fable New English Library Novel
May 1989 Cover The Golden Barge New English Library Novel 17
May 1993 Cover Le chaland d'or L'Atalante Novel
November 1993 Cover Earl Aubec and Other Stories Millennium Omnibus 163
November 1993 Cover Earl Aubec and Other Stories Millennium Omnibus 163
1997 Cover Earl Aubec and Other Stories Millennium / Orion Omnibus
November 1999 Cover Earl Aubec and Other Stories White Wolf Publishing Omnibus 168
October 2002 Cover Le chaland d'or Gallimard Novel
April 2013 Cover The Golden Barge Gateway / Orion Novel