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Michael Moorcock (b. 1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s. As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction “New Wave” in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He is also a successful recording musician, contributing to the band Hawkwind, and his own project.

1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction “New Wave” in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.

Howard's Conan of Cimmeria is generally credited with starting the boom in heroic fantasy that began in the late 1920s and has been with us ever since e spawned lots of imitators, lots and lots of imitators… In any event, after thirty years of Thongors, Elaks, Kyriks, Duars, Donters, Braks, Whacks, Thugs and Thwacks, readers were sick of it Somewhere along the way the writers (with the exception of the redoubtable Fritz Leiber) had forgotten all about the sorcery part of the equation, leaving the basic plot being the lumbering oaf facing off against the frail but far smarter and more powerful sorcerer, who in some act of hubris would manage to screw everything up and wind up with his head in a bag.

O save us all, a young man from England arrived on the scene in the rather unlikely place of the pages of John Carnell's Science Fantasy Michael Moorcock wrote stories about a character that, without his soul-drinking sword, was too weak to raise himself off the couch eaders had never seen anything quite like the albino prince before and initially weren't sure what to make of him.

Playing on the theme of the Ultimate Outsider, Moorcock's protagonist wasn't even human in the strictest sense y the time the second novella saw print the readership had made up their minds: they loved Elric! Lancer Books brought out a two-volume set of Elric stories in 1967.

Ne featured the novel Stormbringer, and the other book, Stealer of Souls, gathered up the short stories More Elric work followed, such as The Sleeping Sorceress, The Weird of the White Wolf, and numerous other short stories, novellas and novels ow, for the first time, the titles, contents, and order of the Elric stories appear exactly as Michael Moorcock has long intended, making the editions (ultimately 9 volumes, with a tenth volume of archival artwork) the most definitive sets of these books ever made available Information on Elric of Melniboné.

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• Elric of Melniboné (Giant Size). Centipede Press page for Elric of Melniboné (Giant Size)
• Michael Moorcock (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Michael Moorcock