Michael Moorcock's Multiverse

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Books by Michael Moorcock, Michael Moorcock characters, Michael Moorcock locations, Elric of Melnibone, Stormbringer, Corum Jhaelen Irsei, Jerry Cornelius, Law and Chaos, Eternal Champion, The Swords Trilogy, Deities in the Elric series, Erekose, Dorian Hawkmoon, Vadhagh, The History of the Runestaff, Symbol of Chaos, Una Persson, Multiverse, The Final Programme, Airtight Garage, Tanelorn, The Metatemporal Detective, The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius, Arioch, Karl Glogauer, Ulrich von Bek, Oswald Bastable, Miss Brunner, Actorius, Middle Marches, Chardros. Excerpt: Elric of Melnibone is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock, and the antihero of a series of sword and sorcery stories centering in an alternate Earth. The proper name and title of the character is Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melnibone. Later novels by Moorcock mark Elric as a facet of the Eternal Champion. Elric first appeared in print in Moorcock's novella, "The Dreaming City" (Science Fantasy #47, June 1961); subsequent novellas were reformatted as the novel Stormbringer (1965), but his first appearance in an original novel wasn't until 1973 in Elric of Melnibone. Moorcock's albinistic character is one of the better known in fantasy literature, having crossed over into multimedia, such as comics and film, though efforts towards the latter stalled over the years. The novels have been continuously in print since the 1970s. Elric is described by his creator, in the first book, Elric of Melnibone, as follows: It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody, and from the loose sleeves of his yellow gown emerge two slender hands, also the colour of bone. Elric was the last emperor of the...