, partially done in an attempt to retire the character so that Moorcock could move on to other work. The final four novellas were written together as a conclusion for Elric's narrative, ending the run of stories with a sequence that sees not only the destruction of Elric but of his entire world Moorcock wrote short novellas featuring Elric in Science Fantasy magazine from 1961-1964: Some Publication History & Context Science Fantasy #47, Elric's first appearance.Įlric was initially a pulp character, conceived by Moorcock as a subversion of the normal sword & sorcery tropes and meant to be a direct inverse of Conan the Barbarian. The old Michael Moorcock's Multiverse Wiki In getting into Elric myself, I found some invaluable resources for sorting this whole mess out:Įd Chang's Terhali's Particular Satisfaction Blog (a.k.a. This is going to be a long, long post, so buckle up. I've been lurking on this subreddit for a bit, but I think it's time I made my first post This is my attempt to present a guide to what Elric content exists and where it's been published in book form. Further complicating matters is the sheer number of different attempts to compile all of the Elric material for re-release by different publishers. There seems to be quite a lot of confusion regarding where to start reading the Elric books and what order to read them in, as Michael Moorcock wrote them sporadically over a period of four decades.
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