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The Michael Moorcock Collection
The Michael Moorcock Collection is the definitive library of acclaimed author Michael Moorcock’s SF & fantasy, including the entirety of his Eternal Champion work. It is prepared and edited by John Davey, the author’s long time bibliographer and editor, and will be published, over the course of two years, in the following print omnibus editions by Gollancz, and as individual eBooks by the SF Gateway (see http://www.sfgateway.com/authors/m/moorcock-michael/ for a complete list of available eBooks).
ELRIC
Elric of Melniboné and Other
Stories
Elric: The Fortress of the Pearl
Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress
Elric: The Revenge of the Rose
Elric: Stormbringer!
Elric: The Moonbeam Roads
comprising –
Daughter of Dreams
Destiny’s Brother
Son of the Wolf
CORUM
Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet
Robe
comprising –
The Knight of the Swords
The Queen of the Swords
The King of the Swords
Corum: The Prince with the Silver
Hand
comprising –
The Bull and the Spear
The Oak and the Ram
The Sword and the Stallion
HAWKMOON
Hawkmoon: The History of the
Runestaff
comprising –
The Jewel in the Skull
The Mad God’s Amulet
The Sword of the Dawn
The Runestaff
Hawkmoon: Count Brass
comprising –
Count Brass
The Champion of Garathorm
The Quest for Tanelorn
JERRY CORNELIUS
The Cornelius Quartet
comprising –
The Final Programme
A Cure for Cancer
The Condition of Muzak
Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and
His Times (short-fiction collection)
A Cornelius Calendar
comprising –
The Adventures of Una Persson
and Catherine Cornelius in
the Twentieth Century
The Entropy Tango
The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle
The Alchemist’s Question
Firing the Cathedral/Modem
Times 2.0
Von Bek
comprising –
The War Hound and the World’s
Pain
The City in the Autumn Stars
The Eternal Champion
comprising –
The Eternal Champion
Phoenix in Obsidian
The Dragon in the Sword
The Dancers at the
End of Time
comprising –
An Alien Heat
The Hollow Lands
The End of all Songs
Kane of Old Mars
comprising –
Warriors of Mars
Blades of Mars
Barbarians of Mars
Moorcock’s Multiverse
comprising –
The Sundered Worlds
The Winds of Limbo
The Shores of Death
The Nomad of Time
comprising –
The Warlord of the Air
The Land Leviathan
The Steel Tsar
Travelling to Utopia
comprising –
The Wrecks of Time
The Ice Schooner
The Black Corridor
The War Amongst the Angels
comprising –
Blood: A Southern Fantasy
Fabulous Harbours
The War Amongst the Angels
Tales From the End of Time
comprising –
Legends from the End of Time
Constant Fire
Elric at the End of Time
Behold the Man
Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill’d Queen
The Chinese Agent
The Russian Intelligence
The Distant Suns
The Golden Barge
Sojan the Swrodsman
SHORT FICTION
My Experiences in the Third World
War and Other Stories: The Best
Short Fiction of Michael Moorcock
Volume 1
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse and
Other Stories: The Best Short Fiction
of Michael Moorcock Volume 2
Breakfast in the Ruins and Other
Stories: The Best Short Fiction of
Michael Moorcock Volume 3
MICHAEL MOORCOCK (1939–) is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, he has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. He is also a musician who performed in the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix; and, as a member of the space-rock band, Hawkwind, won a platinum disc. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock’s literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric. He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris.
For a more detailed biography, please see Michael Moorcock’s entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/
For further information about Michael Moorcock and his work, please visit www.multiverse.org, or send S.A.E. to The Nomads Of The Time Streams, Mo Dhachaidh, Loch Awe, Dalmally, Argyll, PA33 1AQ, Scotland, or P.O. Box 385716, Waikoloa, HI 96738, USA.
Copyright
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright © Michael and Linda Moorcock 1986
This revised version Copyright © Michael and Linda Moorcock 2013
All characters, the distinctive likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are ™ and © 2013 Michael and Linda Moorcock
All rights reserved.
The right of Michael Moorcock to be identified as the author
of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in Great Britain in 2013 by
Gollancz
The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Orion House
5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane
London, WC2H 9EA
An Hachette UK Company
A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978 0 575 09247 1
All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Gateway Introduction
Contents
Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection John Clute
Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection Michael Moorcock
Dedication
Preface
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Epilogue
Website
The Michael Moorcock Collection
About the Author
Copyright