Humans have fled Earth after a nuclear apocalypse – humanity’s worst fears had become realized.  But leaving Earth had one benefit … it meant leaving behind the dreaded Paratwa. The Partwa were genetically modified killers that inhabited two bodies but were controlled by one mind. But it’s been two hundred years and humanity has adapted Continue reading

I have all of the Elric books sitting on a shelf near my desk, and I’ve been looking at them for a couple of years, wanting to give them a re-read.  But my reading schedule has been filled with ARCs. How fortuitous then that Gallery/Saga Press had put together this new volume of the Elric Continue reading

WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD Michael Moorcock’s The Weird of the White Wolf, now considered to be the fourth (or is it the 5th?) book (chronologically) in the Elric saga, is a collection of three shorter works (novellas? novelettes?). In ‘Book One’ – “The Dreaming City” – Elric’s actions come back to haunt him.  At the end Continue reading

Elric, the albino king of Melniboné – a once great kingdom now in decline – is away from his kingdom, hoping to learn more about the world outside his ancient island. Standing alone on a shore, he hails a ship that has appeared in shallow waters, and thus begins his journey as a sailor on Continue reading

I remember when this ‘new’ Elric book came out.  I was working in a book store in Los Angeles and I was so thrilled to get a copy as soon as the box was opened and I went home and devoured it.  Elric … again! That was, what …. the seventh book in the Elric Continue reading

I first read Elric of Melniboné in the late 1970’s and I’ve had my DAW Books edition of this series sitting on a bookshelf because I’ve been wanting to reread not just the Elric books, but the entire ‘Eternal Champion’ books again.  But I’ve been really tied up with a backlog of ARC books so all I’ve Continue reading