Moorcock Michael » Elric of Melnibone

Elric of Melnibon? is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the Elric saga, of which Elric of Melnibon? is the first installment. The book's namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of Melnibon?, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 ...

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