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Originally Posted by Bb
I know of Moorcock mainly for his work in the New Wave SF but these links from davem are really inspiring me to read his most popular work, Elrick of Melniboné. |
I'm the opposite -- I know Moorcock almost exclusively from his Elric books. I recall that I enjoyed them and I recommend them to people, but with the caveat that I read them some twenty years ago or more now (how that can possibly be I'll mull privately). I probably should fish
Stormbringer out of storage and see just what it is that I'm recommending. Also, the later books get a little bizarre. I remember thinking, even all those years ago, that
Elric at the End of Time read like the work of a mental patient. Anyway, Moorcock is an interesting character. He obviously has a lot of ambivalence about the genre that he's most well known for working in -- most of his fantasy work seems to be a satire of, a reaction to, or an attempt to reinvent the work of the genre's stalwarts.