Happy Birthday Michael Moorcock!

Eddie Jones

Man, Elric is a wild character. He was created as basically anti-Conan. Instead of muscular, tanned barbarian who hates magic, who becomes a king by his own hand and is in charge of his own destiny, he’s an albino twink sorcerer, who inhereted a decaying empire he gives up, who is ultimately just a pawn of fate.

His series is hugely influential-the big obvious modern examples are the Targaryens from GoT being heavily based on his people, or the Witcher (a lot of Elric fans will in fact tell you Sapkowski straight up ripped him off), but just think of all the times you saw an albino guy in fantasy and/or an evil sentient sword, or even the whole Order/Chaos thing, Dnd and Warhammer gets that from Moorcock, who BTW, actually is the one to coin the term Multiverse.

Like I said at the top of this reading, I know nothing about this world. As a person who has spent a lot of time in nerd spaces I am aware OF concepts like pulp magazines and literary magazines and the golden age of fantasy and sci fi and the like. I'm standing six inches away from a yawning hole with no bottom whose magnetism has not yet been enough to pull me under. That being said, just from the issues I read, yea, the character is really something. You can really see the DNA of 100 other beloved stories just beginning to sprout with the depth and talent that made this generations of storytellers so foundational.

The last Emperor of Melniboné

I love old pulp fantasy stories. You could do anything.

There are ancient continents undreamed-of in the ancient past, BUT ALSO there are worlds within worlds reached via deep caverns, BUT ALSO some of those passages lead to Literal Hell, BUT ALSO Hell is coterminous with the black void of space and the universe beyond the glow of the Sun is a nightmare of horrors unimagined, BUT ALSO a guy putting poison on a ring and stabbing a guy with the ring is literally dark sorcery on the same level as summoning aforementioned unimaginable horrors

SCIENCE FANTASY Vol. 20 #60 (Nova Publications, 1963)

This issue contains a fun, interesting piece on Mervyn Peake by Mike Moorcock, as well as a short story by Peake (I didn't know he'd written any short stories 'til I glommed this). Also contains a story by someone called Terry Pratchett (a "young, would-be writer," says editor, John Carnell).

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Young Elric illustration done for a new Michael Moorcock short story in New Edge Sword & Sorcery issue #1

Richard Clifton-Dey - Lord of the Spiders, 1975

What are you reading? Elric of melniBONE?🤔🤨 By Michael More Cock?? 🤔🤨 Hmm, and what does he look like?? 🤨🤨🤨

Hmmm... 🤨 Ok...