Stormbringer
Volume 2: The Sleeping Sorceress, The Revenge of the Rose, The Bane of the Black Sword, and Stormbringer

With Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock brings a superior fantasy series to a to formally effective and emotionally satisfying 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 but rarel......more

"I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas." -Michael Moorcock With this simple sentence, Moorcock reveals something troubling and endemic to the fantasy genre: that not enough fantasy authors start out with fantastical ideas. There are......more

The epic tale of Elric of Melniboné, albino prince of ruins, moves to its awesome conclusion. The whole of the natural and supernatural world is in mighty conflict, Armageddon has come and all of existence clashes in a storm of death and chaos. Elric holds the key to the future: the new age which mu......more

The saga of Elric of Melnibone has its highs and its lows - mostly highs - but it really does go down on a good note indeed. Nightmarish apocalyptic visions, terrible bloody battle, and dramatic irony and great tragedy. Even a few good character moments, though it's not Moorcock's strong point. I wis......more

When I was a student at Cambridge during the late 70s, the Cambridge University Science Fiction Society had an evening every week at one of the local pubs. They were sufficiently well-known there that they had managed to persuade the bartenders to add a few SF-themed cocktails to their repertoire. Th......more