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Cover artwork by Brian Lewis for Science Fantasy No. 47, edited by John Carnell, June 1961, containing ‘The Dreaming City’, the very first appearance of Elric of Melniboné. Lewis’s painting, however, looked rather more like a Roman centurion than any image of the Melnibonéan that has come to be recognised in the years since then.
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Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by English writer Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternative Earth. The proper name and title of the character are Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melniboné. Later stories by Moorcock marked Elric as a facet of the Eternal Champion.
Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné. In which we meet Elric, the latest emperor in an unbroken line, of Melniboné. And discover his personal limitations and philosophical problems.
The Elric novels have already become classics of heroic fantasy and future projection. DAW is proud to present them to an eager public in new editions, corrected and revised by michael Moorcock.
Elric of Melniboné — proud prince of ruins, kinslayer — call him what you will. He remains, together with maybe Jerry Cornelius, Moorcock’s most enduring, if not always most endearing, character…
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He is Elric, Emperor of Melniboné, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery — the hero of Michael Moorcock’s remarkable epic of conflict and adventure at the dawn of human history.