- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition of Revised edition edition (6 Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752809067
- ISBN-13: 978-0752809069
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 546,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins, moves to it's awesome conclusion -with the whole of the natural and supernatural world in mighty conflict - the final conflict, Armageddon. Elric holds the key to the future: the new age which must follow the destruction.To turn that key he must sacrifice all that he loves and risk his very soul.
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Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I first became aware of Jim Cawthorn in the early sixties -- he must have been the first person to do pictures for Lord of the Rings and the few examples I still have show a remarkable similarity to modern versions! Cawthorn is a patchy artists -- he seems to lose confidence in his own strengths sometimes -- but at its best this version of Michael Moorcock's classic fantasy has all the wild, romantic vigour of the book. Tremendous battle scenes -- wonderful visions as Chaos engulfs the world. Hard to get this stuff, and I'd imagine much of Cawthorn's ouevre is even rarer than some of Druillet's, but it's worth tracking down. He illustrated a lot for Moorcock's New Worlds and did a lot of children's
illustration, but it's in books like Stormbringer that he excelled. And check out those Lord of the Rings pictures, if you get a chance. One or two, by no means the best, are currently on the Fantastic Metropolis site, off the SF.Site, to illustrate an early interview with The Professor Himself.
illustration, but it's in books like Stormbringer that he excelled. And check out those Lord of the Rings pictures, if you get a chance. One or two, by no means the best, are currently on the Fantastic Metropolis site, off the SF.Site, to illustrate an early interview with The Professor Himself.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Moorcock is a major influence on most contemporary fantasy but presumably Tolkien's publicity machine is more efficient and his characters a bit more 'common-reader'-friendly! If you were bored by the Lord or just a bit disappointed or want something a tad grittier but just as intense an epic, then Stormbringer is for you. Moorcock, like Tolkien, lasts on the superiority of his language and the vitality and originality of his plotting. This fantasy was created without any influence from Tolkien but a great deal from Peake and Dunsany, both of whom preceded publication of LOTR, as well as 1930s pulp poets like Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. What helps keep Moorcock in JRR's shade, is his temperamental disposition to use his fantasy, as Peter Ackroyd says, 'as a divining rod for the century's most urgent concerns', rather than provide comfortable escape. He never uses juvenile or animal central characters and his heroes and heroines have genuine, if rather sensational, adult relationships. What is missing in Tolkien, you'll find in Moorcock. Stormbringer, some of it written before the author's 21st birthday and the epic completed before his 23rd, is engaged with a world Tolkien could scarcely imagine, let alone tolerate and Mr Moorcock's baffled, tormented protagonist has genuine crimes and betrayals on his conscience with which we can all, to some degree, identify. This remains the best and, with Tolkien, the biggest influence on modern international fantasy. There is no ending better!
Great stuff, well worth rereading if you haven't looked at it lately. I was pleasantly impressed.
Great stuff, well worth rereading if you haven't looked at it lately. I was pleasantly impressed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I've just finished reading the two volumes of Elric stories from Elric of Melnibone onwards. I must say they build and build until the final, cataclysmic ending. The ending is stunning. I knew enough about the books to expect them to be different, but not THIS different. These are so much better, richer, smarter than the run of fantasy fiction that there really is no comparison. Moorcock is a genius! I can't recommend this series enthusiastically enough.
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