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The Mad God's Amulet

The Mad God's Amulet

The Mad God's Amulet is a fantasy novel by English writer Michael Moorcock, first published in 1968 as Sorcerer's Amulet. The novel is the second in the four-volume The History of the Runestaff.


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“The hardest compromise to make is when you decide to appear to compromise. Often the deception becomes the reality long before you realize it.”

Michael Moorcock book The Mad God's Amulet

Source: Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160), The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

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“I would waste my rhetoric if I tried, for men are greedy and will not see the truth for the gleam of coin.”

Michael Moorcock book The Mad God's Amulet

Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160)
The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

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