Michael Moorcock

Gloriana;

The Eternal Champion;

Elric of Melnibone, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Weird of the White Wolf, The Vanishing Tower, The Bane of the Black Sword, Stormbringer, Elric at the End of Time;

The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God’s Amulet, The Sword of the Dawn, The Runestaff;

Count Brass, The Champion of Garathorm, The Quest for Tanelorn;

The Swords Trilogy, The Chronicles of Corum.

(18 Books) By Michael Moorcock.

I was introduced to Moorcock when I borrowed a bag of sci-fi and fantasy books from our cousin Billy.

I was so taken with the Swords Trilogy I never returned it, effectively stealing it. God, I confess my sins: I was such a book thief, of which I most heartily repent. I was a trifle misled about the general tenor and tone of Moorcock’s work, though. Corum is by far the most virtuous of his heroes; most of his others tend to be … otherwise. I followed the various series (his conceit is that all his heroes are one hero, aspects of the Eternal Champion, an archetypal figure, and that all realities converge at the mystical city of Tanelorn) for quite a while, tried to read some of his other, more ‘serious’ novels, then concluded that this ‘anti-Tolkien’ and his ideas were not worth any more of my time or treasure. Still, these are amusing entertainments. I have the comic book adaptations that were done for “The Swords Trilogy”.

Ranking: Keepers.

File Code: Fantasy. Novels. Paperbacks.