Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone
10 best books like Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone (Roy Thomas): Elric of Melniboné, The Ruby Throne, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Stormbringer, The Eternal Champion, The Bane of the Black Sword, The Weird of the White Wolf, Elric: Tales of the White Wolf, Hawkmoon, Elric: Stormbringer
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441203981 |
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody....He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery...
| Author | Julien Blondel |
| ISBN | 1782761241 |
Elric, the albino emperor, has ruled Melniboné for millennia - a feat made possible through magic and various herbs that serve to strengthen and prolong his life. However, Elric's empire is crumbling before him and now his envious cousin and prince of Melniboné, Yyrkoon, plots to claim the Ruby...
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0586208771 |
Holy crap! I, Mark Lawrence, have read an entire book in 4 hours!
Admittedly I picked it up after discovering that it was only 24,000 words long, or 1/2oth of a George Martin epic.
EDIT: over the long grind of this summer holiday I've been writing a "short" story that I'm being paid to write...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441787541 |
With Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock brings a superior fantasy series to a to formally effective and emotionally satifying conclusion.
I love the Elric series, and sometimes wonder if I rate the books too highly. After all, the prose, ranging from workmanlike to vigorous, is often evocative...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0425095622 |
You are John Daker. You are a resident of 20th century Earth. You are a sophisticated, intelligent fellow - urbane, socially conscious, left-leaning. You do not believe in binary thinking; you do not believe in Good vs. Evil. You do not support war; you don't even know how to use a weapon.
You...
The Bane of the Black Sword
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441048854 |
This slim fifth volume of the Elric saga contains four separate novellas, the first three starring our princely albino hero and the fourth featuring one of his old companions, Rachir the Red Archer, now Defender of Tanelorn.
The three Elric tales are all fine adventures, and rather sunny...
The Weird of the White Wolf
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441888054 |
"We must be bound to one another then. Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then - let it be thus so - and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melnibone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind - produced by an age which has deserted...
| Author | Edward E. Kramer |
| ISBN | 1565041747 |
This isn't a review, just a note as to why I didn't go forward with reading this. The anthology was a flea market purchase several years ago; I'd never read any of Moorcock's Elric series (or any of his other work), and I thought this might be a good introduction to the character and world(s). Unfortunately,...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1565041933 |
This series of stories was written in the dark days of declining Britain before the countries of Europe took mercy upon that wild and lonely Goddess and invited her in off her storm tossed Atlantic rock into the EEC.
In this future, unity has failed, Europe is a patchwork of tiny, frequently warring...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1569713367 |
There was a time when great movement fell upon the earth and above it, when the destiny of men and gods was hammered out upon the forge of fate, when monstrous wars were brewed and mighty deeds were designed. Greatest of these heroes was a doom-driven adventurer who bore a runeblade that he loathed. His...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441116302 |
Aaaaah...Conan!
I struggled with my star rating for Conan because, despite any mitigating factors, I really love the character of Conan, particularly in the hands of his progenitor, Robert E. Howard.
Howard had a fiercely creative mind and a burning work ethic that enabled him to...
When his people are mercilessly massacred, Elric, the albino former Emperor of the ancient island of Melniboné is cast out into the world. However, fate brings him into the possession of Stormbringer - the fabled, bloodthirsty demon-sword that will sustain him and dominate his destiny.
Elric...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0886772168 |
In Michael Moorcock’s vast and imaginative multiverse, Law and Chaos wage war in a never-ending struggling over the fundamental rules of existence. Here in this universe, Dorian Hawkmoon traverses a world of antique cities, scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines as he pulled unwillingly...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441860397 |
Elric of Melniboné, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World's Edge,...
The Fortress of the Pearl
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441248667 |
The seventh installment in the prolific Moorcock's series about warrior Elric of Melnibone is set early in the warrior's career, opening as the Lord Gho Fhaazi seeks the principal seat on the ruling Council of Seven of the city of Quarzhasaat. He lures Elric into seeking the Pearl at the Heart of the World--the...
