Michael Moorcock bibliography

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This is a bibliography of the works of Michael Moorcock.

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Novels and collections

A bibliography of Moorcock's long-form fiction and shorter fiction directly connected with notable characters.

Elric of Melniboné

The original series consists of:

  1. Elric of Melniboné (Hutchinson 1972, cut vt The Dreaming City Lancer 1972 US; DAW 1977) ISBN   0-425-08843-X
  2. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Quartet 1976; DAW 1977) ISBN   0-441-74863-5
  3. The Weird of the White Wolf (collection, DAW 1977, contains "The Dream of Earl Aubec" (a.k.a. "Master of Chaos"), "The Dreaming City", "While the Gods Laugh" and "The Singing Citadel") ISBN   0-441-88805-4
  4. The Sleeping Sorceress (NEL 1971; Lancer 1972 as The Vanishing Tower; DAW 1977) ISBN   0-441-86039-7
  5. The Bane of the Black Sword (DAW 1977, fixup of "The Stealer of Souls", "Kings in Darkness", "The Flame Bringers" (a.k.a. "The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams") and "To Rescue Tanelorn ...") ISBN   0-441-04885-4
  6. Stormbringer (cut, Herbert Jenkins 1965; restored and revised, DAW 1977, Berkeley 1984, fixup of "Dead God's Homecoming", "Black Sword's Brothers", "Sad Giant's Shield" and "Doomed Lord's Passing") ISBN   0-425-06559-6

Later novels featuring Elric include:

An additional trilogy, featuring Oona von Bek as well as Elric, was published from 2001 to 2005:

Other collections of Elric short stories include The Stealer of Souls (which was reordered into "The Bane of the Black Sword" and "The Weird of the White Wolf") and The Singing Citadel. Elric at the End of Time (1984, ISBN   1-85028-032-0) includes two related stories: the title story and "The Last Enchantment".

Del Rey reprinted the series as Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné from 2008 to 2010. Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn included a reprint of Moorcock's British Fantasy Award-winner "The Jade Man's Eyes" while Elric: Swords and Roses included the first book publication of "Black Petals", a story originally published in the March–April 2008 issue of Weird Tales .

A new Elric story, "Red Pearls", featured in the 2010 anthology Swords and Dark Magic. In 2012, Gollancz announced plans to reprint the main Elric saga. A new collection of the shorter Elric fiction, Elric of Melniboné and other Stories, has been issued.

In 2022 Saga Press reissued the novels of the Elric saga in three volumes:

These volumes were followed by a new Elric novel, set during the events of The Bane of the Black Sword, [1] which incorporates "Red Pearls" and "Black Petals" as the opening chapters:

Additionally, two anthologies of works by other authors set in the Moorcock multiverse have been published:

The Elric saga has also been adapted for comics and graphic novels several times:

Corum Jhaelen Irsei

Corum (his name is an anagram of "Jeremiah Cornelius"; he was mentioned in an early list of Champion avatars as 'Corom Bannon Flurron') was the lead in a pair of trilogies and made appearances in several other books, notably The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Sleeping Sorceress and The Quest for Tanelorn.

The first trilogy, The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, consists of:

The three were first collected as The Swords Trilogy (1977) vt The Swords of Corum (1986)

The first and third volumes won the August Derleth Award and were adapted into a 12-issue comic series entitled The Chronicles of Corum (1986–88)

The second trilogy, The Prince with the Silver Hand, consists of:

The three were first collected as The Chronicles of Corum (1978). The last volume also won the August Derleth Award while the first book was adapted into the 4-issue comic series Corum: The Bull and the Spear.

Dorian Hawkmoon

The first series, a tetralogy consists of:

These four volumes were later collected as The History of the Runestaff and adapted into a two issue comic series in 1986. The four novels were collected in two volumes in 2015 as Jewel and Amulet and Sword and Runestaff.

The Chronicles of Castle Brass is the second Hawkmoon series and forms a kind of culmination for the entire saga of the Eternal Champion:

These three volumes were later collected as the box set/omnibus The Chronicles of Castle Brass.

Jerry Cornelius

Cornelius first appeared in a quartet of novels (TFP was initially published in parts in the magazine New Worlds):

After the third book a collection, The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976), was released. The first edition included "The Peking Junction", "The Delhi Division", "The Tank Trapeze", "The Nature of the Catastrophe", "The Swastika Set-Up", "The Sunset Perspective", "Sea Wolves", "Voortrekker", "Dead Singers", "The Longford Cup" and "The Entropy Circuit". The 1987 edition includes "The Dodgem Division" as an epilogue. The 2004 edition replaced "Dead Singers", "The Swastika Set-Up", "The Longford Cup", "The Entropy Circuit" and "The Dodgem Division" with "The Spencer Inheritance", "The Camus Connection", "Cheering for the Rockets" and "Firing the Cathedral". The 1987 edition has been superseded by The New Nature of the Catastrophe, which includes its entire contents along with "The Murderer's Song", "The Gangrene Collection" and "The Roumanian Question". The paperback also included "All the Way Round Again", which had previously appeared as "The Enigma Windows" in Fabulous Harbours.

The next series of four short novels was collected as A Cornelius Calendar: The Entropy Tango (1981), The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century (1976), The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (a.k.a. Gold Diggers of '77) (1980) and The Alchemist's Question (1984). The main sequence continued with Firing the Cathedral (2002), Modem Times 2.0 (2008) Cheering for the Rockets (2007), Pegging the President (2018), and The Wokingham Agreement (2022).

Moorcock's original story, "The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius" (co-written with M. John Harrison) also appeared in The Distant Suns (1975, with James Cawthorn). It was adapted as a comic in The New Nature of the Catastrophe, a volume of Cornelius stories by Moorcock and several others. Cornelius was also the lead of the five-issue comics series "Midnight Kiss" (2005). Moorcock's Doctor Who novel The Coming of the Terraphiles (2010) featured a Captain Cornelius.

The von Bek family

Graf Ulrich von Bek was introduced in the first volume of the trilogy and his descendants feature in the sequels.

Members of the family also feature in:

Erekosë

The original Eternal Champion trilogy is:

He also appears in the graphic novel The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell (with Howard Chaykin).

Sojan the Swordsman

  1. Daughter of a Warrior King (1957)
  2. Mission to Asno (1957)
  3. Revolt in Hatnor (1957)
  4. The Hordes Attack (1957)
  5. The Purple Galley (1958)
  6. The Sea Wolves! (1958)
  7. Sojan at Sea (1958)
  8. The Sea of Demons (1958)
  9. Prisoners in Stone (1958)
  10. Sojan and the Sons of The Snake-God (1958)
  11. Sojan and the Plain of Mystery (1958)
  12. Sojan and the Hunters of Norj (1958)

Originally published in Moorcock's juvenile weekly "Tarzan Adventures" which he edited in the 1950s the first twelve Sojan stories were collected in "Sojan the Swordsman" (1984).

Kane of Old Mars

  1. Warriors of Mars (a.k.a. City of the Beast) (1965)
  2. Blades of Mars (a.k.a. Lord of the Spiders) (1965)
  3. Barbarians of Mars (a.k.a. Masters of the Pit) (1965)

Moorcock later wrote a short story, "The Lost Canal", which is a sequel to the Kane of Old Mars trilogy, set one million years later. It was first published in the 2013 anthology Old Mars , edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. [5] [6]

Jherek Carnelian and the Dancers at the End of Time

The original trilogy is:

  1. An Alien Heat (Harper and Row, 1972)
  2. The Hollow Lands (Harper and Row, 1974)
  3. The End of All Songs (Harper and Row, 1976)

The Hollow Lands won the August Derleth Award in 1976, Moorcock's fourth time in five years.

Three short stories in the same setting ("Pale Roses", "White Stars" and "Ancient Shadows") were assembled as Legends from the End of Time (1976). This collection was released as an omnibus with a novel in the same setting, The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming (a.k.a. A Messiah at the End of Time, based on the short story, Constant Fire) (1977), in the 1989 omnibus, Tales from the End of Time. Elric appeared with the Dancers in "Elric at the End of Time" (1981) and a new story, "Sumptuous Dress: A Question of Size at the End of Time" was published in the Summer 2008 issue of Postscripts . A 1993 edition from Millennium included the 3 short stories and the Elric addition, along with Constant Fire – which is not the original story but rather a revised chapter from The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. It had been planned that the omnibus would have the full (revised) Mavis Ming novel but by error only included the revised chapter. The full (revised) novel later appeared in Behold the Man and other stories (1994, Phoenix House).

The Multiverse trilogy

Oswald Bastable

  1. The Warlord of the Air (1971) (the UK edition changed names for unspecified legal reasons)
  2. The Land Leviathan (1974)
  3. The Steel Tsar (1981)

The trilogy was collected as A Nomad of the Time Streams .

Travelling to Utopia

Second Ether

  1. Blood (1995)
  2. Fabulous Harbours (1995) (collects "The White Pirate", "Some Fragments found in the Effects of Sam Oakenhurst", "The Black Blade's Summoning", "Lunching With the Antichrist", "The Affair of the Seven Virgins", "The Girl Who Killed Sylvia Blade", "Crimson Eyes", "No Ordinary Christian", "The Enigma Windows" and "Epilogue: The Birds of the Moon")
  3. The War Amongst the Angels (1996)

Karl Glogauer

Glogauer appears in Behold the Man (1969) and Breakfast in the Ruins (1972). He also cameos in The English Assassin and The End of All Songs.

Jerry Cornell

A duology of comic spy adventures (revised from two Nick Allard books, see below):

Colonel Pyat – Between the Wars

The Sanctuary of the White Friars

Doctor Who

In 2010, Moorcock wrote a Doctor Who novel, The Coming of the Terraphiles . A version of Jerry Cornelius makes an appearance.

Sexton Blake and Monsieur Zenith

As well as writing one of the Sexton Blake novels, Caribbean Crisis (1962), Moorcock wrote The Metatemporal Detective , a collection including "The Affair of the Seven Virgins", "Crimson Eyes", "The Ghost Warriors", "The Girl Who Killed Sylvia Blade", "The Case of the Nazi Canary", "Sir Milk-and-Blood", "The Mystery of the Texas Twister", "London Flesh", "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius", "The Affair of Le Bassin Les Hivers" and "The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera". Another Moorcock Zenith story, Curare, appeared in the 2012 anthology Zenith Lives!.

Nick Allard

The first was published as by Roger Harris (who had written the book, with some edits by Moorcock); the other two were by Moorcock writing as Bill Barclay:

Other novels

Other collections

Anthologies edited

He has also edited a number of other volumes, including two bringing together examples of invasion literature:

Other comics

Non-fiction

Selected essays

Recordings

Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix

Blue Öyster Cult

Hawkwind

Spirits Burning

Other appearances

Film

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stormbringer</span> Fictional sword from Michael Moorcock stories

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<i>Emperor of the Black Runes</i> 2004 studio album by Domine

Emperor of the Black Runes is the fourth album by Domine. It was recorded in May 2003 and released under Japanese label Avalon in February 2004.

<i>Flashing Swords! 4: Barbarians and Black Magicians</i> 1977 anthology edited by Lin Carter

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<i>The Final Programme</i> 1968 novel by Michael Moorcock

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<i>Michael Moorcocks Multiverse</i> Comic Book Series

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<i>Stormbringer</i> (role-playing game) Tabletop role-playing game

Stormbringer is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game published under license by Chaosium. Based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock, the game takes its name from Elric's sword, Stormbringer. The rules are based on Chaosium's percentile-dice-based Basic Role-Playing system.

The multiverse is a series of parallel universes in many of the science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories written by Michael Moorcock. Central to these works is the concept of an Eternal Champion who has potentially multiple identities across multiple dimensions. The multiverse contains a legion of different versions of Earth in various times, histories, and occasionally, sizes. One example is the world in which his Elric Saga takes place. The multiplicity of places in this collection of universes include London, Melniboné, Tanelorn, the Young Kingdoms, and the Realm of Dreams.

<i>The Dreaming City</i> 1961 novella by Michael Moorcock

The Dreaming City is a novella written by Michael Moorcock, which first appeared in Science Fantasy issue 47, in June 1961. It was the first story to feature the character Elric of Melniboné.

<i>Stormbringer</i> (novel) 1965 Michael Moorcock novel

Stormbringer is a 1965 novel written by Michael Moorcock and featuring the character Elric of Melniboné. It is a partly abridged fix-up of four previously published stories from Science Fantasy 1963-1964, namely "Dead God's Homecoming", "Black Sword's Brothers", "Sad Giant's Shield" and "Doomed Lord's Passing". Moorcock restored and revised the text for the US edition of 1977.

<i>Elric: Battle at the End of Time</i> Fantasy board wargame

Elric: Battle at the End of Time is a board wargame published by Chaosium in 1982, an update of the 1977 game simply titled Elric. It is based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock. There have been three English language editions, Elric (1977), Elric: Battle at the End of Time (1982), and Elric (1984), published by Avalon Hill.

Elric: Song of the Black Sword is a story collection by Michael Moorcock published by White Wolf in 1995.

References

  1. ↑ According to John Davey, Moorcock's editor and bibliographer: “The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths slots -- in terms of the overall saga’s internal narrative chronology -- between two novellas, ‘Kings In Darkness’ and ‘The Flame Bringers’, which fall just before the final volume, Stormbringer. This is despite cover text for Citadel… stating that it is “Taking place between the first and second book in the Elric Saga”.” [This comment was posted in 'The Many Worlds of Michael Moorcock' Facebook group by Guy Lawley on 07.12.2022.]
  2. ↑ Stormbringer profile and preview
  3. ↑ DC's Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer profile
  4. ↑ Corum - The Knight of Swords: The Eternal Champion Paperback. 5 May 2015. ASIN   1783291656.
  5. ↑ DeNardo, John (14 February 2013). "TOC: Old Mars Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois". SF Signal . Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Bedford, Robert H. (8 October 2013). "Mars as We Thought it Could Be: Old Mars, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois". Tor.com. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
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