John does great work, doesn't he? I'm also rather fond of the art nouveau-ish covers by Robert Gould. But the cover for Sailor on the Seas of Fate will always be Elric to me. That's Whelan, isn't it?
- Brian
As a foe of pretense and a skeptic concerning literary uses of genre tropes, you are nevertheless besotten with Moorcock: the man whose pretentiousness was a never-to-be-forgotten nova in the skies of sixties SF.
Why are all today's genre-breakers British, you ask? Well, Alan Moore read Moorcock and then wrote for 2000 AD and then, and then.....
The school of Moorcock is as well-attended as the schools of Campbell and Boucher.
And they get more Booker Prizes.
I've had a similar experience with Elric. I too started reading it in 7th grade, but long before that my Dad had told me stories of the Eternal Champion and I was hooked. After finishing Stormbringer I was awe stuck. Stormbringer considered Elric a friend-that blow my mind-and then laugh at the Cosmic Balance and I thought that was phenomenal. Then my Dad played me Hawkwind's The Chronicle of the Black Sword and showed me the comics and I was hungry for more. I read Hawkmoon and Corun and Von Bek over the years. Then the Dreamthief's Daughter come out and I got to complete the cycle by telling my Dad about the trilogy. It's everywhere in my life. I even had an English teacher who had a yardstick with Stormbringer written on one side and Mournblade on the other!
Michael Moorcock got me into H. P. Lovecraft who got me into Robert E. Howard who brought me back to Elric. I think it will always be apart of who I am and I hope that one day my writing will be as rich and loved as the Multiverse.
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