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Original Title:	The Black Corridor
ISBN:	1041465300 (ISBN13: 9781041465300)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.multiverse.org/
Series:	Sailing to Utopia #2, The Eternal Champion Sequence #8.2

The Black Corridor (Sailing to Utopia #2) Paperback | Pages: 187 pages

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The Black Corridor is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock, published in 1969, first by Ace Books in the USA, as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series, and later by Mayflower Books in the UK.
It is essentially a novel about the decay of society and the deep personal and social isolation this has caused, and tells of a man fleeing through interstellar space from Earth, where civilisation is collapsing into anarchy and wars. The author uses techniques ranging from straight narrative to entries in the spaceship's log, dream sequences and sixties-style computer printouts.

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Title	:	The Black Corridor (Sailing to Utopia #2)
Author	:	Michael Moorcock
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 187 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1969 by Ace Books (NYC)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy

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A mundanely pessimistic vision of the future, but with the social catastrophe a backdrop for the psychological unhinging of the main character en route to colonize a new planet. Perhaps a more artful prose stylist (like Bradbury) could elevate the material. The novel starts off exceedingly slow and only becomes truly surprising towards the very end. It would've made a better Twilight Zone episode rather than a novel, the narrative is slim and lacks deep insight. Moorcock does get points,

So a Moocock book. After reading the review at Graeme's Fantasy Book Review I decided to buy and read it. In my opinion the book was not as good as he portrayed it. The book is divided in two parts... the first part is the ramblings of Ryan (our main protagonist) as he travels into another galaxy to settle there with his family. Inbetween chapters we learn about their society and why they must do the voyage. The book is quite easy to read but there are a lot of references of Moorcock own

This was pretty classic 1960s sci-fi with a psychological horror element, but it's also more than that. It was also pretty unusual among the Moorcock I've read. For one thing, it really doesn't seem to tie in to the Eternal Champion sequence, or even to the first book in the Sailing To Utopia omnibus.This is about a very long voyage to distant stars, with most of the crew sleeping in stasis. The man on duty (Ryan) starts to notice little things around the ship that are off, and things spin out

Written at a time when the new wave of sci-fi (of which Moorcock was a strong contributor) was starting to gain significant traction, this novel exemplifies much of what it was about. This is not a space adventure where our heroes blast the bad aliens and save humanity (and the good aliens), rather it is a dark psychological story (almost more a horror story), which looks at the character flaws in humanity that would lead (45 years later) to Brexit and Trump.It's a challenging book to read -

I was looking for a little escape in the year of our lord 2017, and then dropped into this fresh hell of all our fears made real. Which isn't to say I didn't like it.The Black Corridor, not to spoil too much, is the chronicle of the world's descent into madness, mirrored in the experience of one man. The entire world is swept by a wave of racism and paranoia and proceeds to tear itself apart, leading one small band of refugees to flee to outer space. Have they really escaped, or have they been

Originally published on my blog here in December 2001.The wonderfully atmospheric first few paragraphs of The Black Corridor immediately make it clear what the purpose of the novel is to be. Science fiction of the fifties and sixties in particular treat space travel as a glorious adventure, mankind (almost always male) against the stars. Here, though, the pioneer is a selfish, paranoid man who wants to save himself from the worldwide descent into 1984-style dystopian states.Ryan is the only