Elric_ The Sleeping Sorceress - Michael Moorcock [142]
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Art, award-winning artist STEVE ELLIS began his career as a penciller for both Marvel and DC Comics, where he illustrated iconic titles such as Iron Man, Green Lantern, and Lobo, then moved on to illustrate for Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and Spectrum. Recently, along with author David Gallaher, Steve co-created the critically acclaimed werewolf western webcomic series High Moon for DC Comics.
Steve is honored to be contributing art to this most recent incarnation of Elric. Michael Moorcock’s powerful writing and the fantastic imagery created by Elric’s numerous past illustrators have been an inspiration. In executing Elric, Steve draws his influences from the classic illustration work of Gustav Dore and Joseph Clement Cole, as well as that of modern artists.
After several years teaching illustration and drawing at the university he once attended, Steve has moved to Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and son.
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Elric The Sleeping Sorceress is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2008 by Michael Moorcock and Linda Moorcock
Foreword copyright © 2008 by Holly Black
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Steven Ellis
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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The stories contained in this work originally appeared in various science fiction magazines and books, as noted on the following acknowledgments page.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moorcock, Michael.
Elric : the sleeping sorceress / Michael Moorcock ;
illustrated throughout by Steve Ellis.
p. cm. — (Chronicles of the last emperor of Melniboné ;)
Elric of Melniboné (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Swordsmen—Fiction.3. Albinos and albinism—Fiction. 4. Fantasy fiction, English.
I. Title.
PR6063.O59E467 2008
823’.914—dc22 2008028814
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The Sleeping Sorceress was first published in the UK by New English Library in 1971.
Elric of Melniboné was first published in the UK by Hutchinson in 1972.
“And So the Great Emperor Received His Education . . .” first appeared as a spoken-word introduction to an audiobook edition of Elric of Melniboné by AudioRealms in 2003 and appears here in print for the first time.
“Aspects of Fantasy (1)” first appeared in Science Fantasy magazine, no. 61, October 1963, edited by John Carnell.
The introduction to Elric of Melniboné’s graphic adaptation, First Comics, was published in 1986.
“El Cid and Elric” first appeared in Argentina, in Comiqueando magazine, no. 100, August/September 2007.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
The Sleeping Sorceress cover artwork copyright © James Cawthorn, 1971.
Reprinted by permission of James Cawthorn.
Elric of Melniboné cover design copyright © Laurence Cutting, 1972.
Used by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
“The Age of the Young Kingdoms” map, first published in Elric of