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Stormbringer : Elric
  

Stormbringer : Elric (Paperback)

by Michael Moorcock (Author)
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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: D A W Books Incorporated (1 Nov 1977)
  • ISBN-10: 0879978422
  • ISBN-13: 978-0879978426
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,979,343 in Books (See Bestsellers 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest ending in all fantasy fiction!, 11 Nov 2001
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I could not believe this when I first read it!
This omnibus has almost all the best Elric stories, including Revenge of the Rose, which with Dreamthief's Daughter, the latest, and Stormbringer itself are the very best, containing the same elements of tragedy and characterisation which make Moorcock the only serious challenge to Tolkien. This is rich, dark, heady stuff and it won't appeal to you if you really just like cuddly hobbits and wise old wizards because there is never much that's reassuring about Moorcock. Which is no doubt why so many people who like his imitators like David Gemmell and Robert Jordan don't actually like him. This is the full-strength version and it's like the difference between a night of passion and a night at a lap-dancing club. Nobody, nobody does it better!
If you read no other fantasy book, read this.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Thing, 30 Jan 2002
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Marvellous stuff, still streets ahead of anything out there -- but Philip Pullman has the same sort of mindset. Elric, exiled traitor and wife-killer, proud Prince of Ruins, adept sorcerer and swordsman, who carries the bewitched runesword Stormbringer, begins this book in a series of early adventures, clearly written as individual novellas, but then you start getting into the real meat -- Revenge of the Rose is a superb fantasy, head and shoulders above any of its contemporaries, and offers us, as well as poetic parodies and the like, wonderful images of the Gypsy Nation, perpetually trundling round the world and speaking the rhetoric of freedom while having become a total orthodoxy, the gigantic clock made up of human beings who will perish if any one of them makes a mistake -- and Moorcock is off at full throttle. Every scene has ironic meaning. A couple of minor stories (Kings in Darkness, The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams) and we're into the lush, manic rush to Armageddon that is STORMBRINGER! Still the greatest plot on the planet and the best ending in all fantasy fiction! Long before Pullman won the Whitbread Moorcock was offering this mad, bad and thoroughly humane fantasy to the world. He remains a giant. One word of advice -- buy this and not the Fantasy Masterworks edition, which is not good value and doesn't really give you the build-up which Moorcock artfully introduced with intermediary books, all relentlessly leading that dark, astonishing ending. You might want to stop off after Caravan of Forgotten Dreams and read The Dreamthief's Daughter, the latest singleton where Elric takes on the Nazis!
You'll believe it when you read it!
Wonderful energy. Marvellous ideas. Tremendous landscapes. Massive emotions. Yet somehow reality is never far away. In a great British tradition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars SARDONIC HUMOUR, 11 Feb 2002
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There is very little Moorcock which doesn't have a bit of irony. His work has had this same sardonic humour from the very beginning, as you can see from the earliest work in this book which otherwise contains the three best Elric novels out of four and the fourth is The Dreamthief's Daughter. Elric himself has the same sardonic self-mockery. That's what appeals to me. There aren't many modern fantasy writers who can even begin to approach that tone. It's why he remains the best antidote to sentimentality with that self-knowing wink of his.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant completion
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. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2002 by gordian26

5.0 out of 5 stars Farewell friend, I was a thousand times more evil then thou
Moorcock's Eternal Champion Books are a parody unto themselves: on the one hand they are repetative and often tedious, but on the other they are highly imaginative, profound,... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2002 by C. W. Bell

5.0 out of 5 stars Word-play more than world-building
While Moorcock's multiverse is very, very easy to visualise, given its dimensions (or lack of them) there's another element in his work which few people seem to mention -- and... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Knocks LOTR off the mountain!
This is amazing stuff. A richer, perhaps slightly more oriental culture than Tolkien's Middle Earth, but just as interesting, just as convincing, and frankly a lot more... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A major influence
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! Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2001 by jugadora

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Moorcock - Classic Elric
This is a wonderful end to Moorcock's saga of Elric of Melinbone (aka Kinslayer).

If you're. like me, one of those people who had the old Elric saga completed, you may not... Read more

Published on 15 May 2000 by grigoripeck

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I've read
I don't want to say anything about the plot but if you've read the Elric saga then you need this to complete it. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 1999

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