Best known in the US as a science fiction and fantasy writer, Michael Moorcock proves in Byzantium Endures both his versatility as a fiction writer and the mastery of his craft. He achieves a fine and penetrating irony in the creation of his narrator, an anti-Semitic Jewish-Cossack Russian expatriot picaro…. More than just a readable historical novel—although it is that too—Byzantium Endures is a portrait of war from its chaotic and senseless underside and a humane, if often comic, anatomy of what it takes to survive in wartime as well as of the costs of such survival.

A review of "Byzantium Endures: A Novel," in Choice (copyright © 1982 by American Library Association; reprinted by permission of the American Library Association), Vol. 19, No. 9, May, 1982, p. 1242.