Oswald Bastable

Oswald Bastable is a fictional character in:

The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, New Treasure Seekers and Oswald Bastable and Others, by E. Nesbit.^[1]
The Warlord of the Air , The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar, and other stories by Michael Moorcock.^[2]

In The Wouldbeassgoods, his birthday is stated to be the 15th of August 1887. In The Warlord of the Air, Bastable travels in time, and between alternate histories;^[2] he is also an opium user, with opium playing somewhat the same role for him that Stormbringer does for Elric in Moorcock's "Elric sequence" novels.

References

^ Streatfeild, Noel (1958). Magic and the magician: E. Nesbit and her children's books. E. Benn. pp. 82–89.
^ ^a ^b Jaffery, Sheldon (1987). Future and fantastic worlds: a bibliographical retrospective of DAW Books, 1972-1987. Starmont reference guide. 4. Wildside Press. pp. 63,173. ISBN 1557420025.