Elric to Rescue Tanelorn - Michael Moorcock [195]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MICHAEL JOHN MOORCOCK is the author of a number of science fiction, fantasy, and literary novels, including the Elric novels, the Cornelius Quartet, Gloriana, King of the City, and many more. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, Moorcock fostered the development of the New Wave in the U.K. and indirectly in the U.S. He won the Nebula Award for his novella Behold the Man. He has also won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and many others.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
MICHAEL WM. KALUTA studied art at the Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University). Arriving in New York in 1969, he was hired by DC Comics and eventually assigned to what is now a classic stint: the creation of The Shadow comic book. In the mid-seventies he, Jeffrey Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson formed The Studio; he later collaborated with Elaine Lee in adapting her play Starstruck to comics. He is inspired by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Al Williamson.
ALSO BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Behold the Man
Breakfast in the Ruins
Gloriana
The Metatemporal Detective
THE CORNELIUS QUARTET
The Final Program
A Cure for Cancer
The English Assassin
The Condition of Muzak
BETWEEN THE WARS: THE PYAT QUARTET
Byzantium Endures
The Laughter of Carthage
Jerusalem Commands
The Vengeance of Rome
And many more
Praise for Michael Moorcock and the Elric series
“A mythological cycle…highly relevant to the twentieth century…The figure of Elric often resembles many purely contemporary figureheads from Charles Manson to James Dean.”
—Time Out
“Elric is back! Herald the event!”
—Los Angeles Daily News, on The Fortress of the Pearl
“[The Elric] novels are totally enthralling.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.”
—Science Fiction Chronicle
“If you are at all interested in fantastic fiction, you must read Michael Moorcock. He changed the field single-handedly: He is a giant.”
—TAD WILLIAMS
“A work of powerful and sustained imagination…The vast, tragic symbols by which Mr. Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author’s remarkable talents.”
—J. G. BALLARD, author of Crash
“A giant of fantasy.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A superb writer.”
—Locus
Elric To Rescue Tanelorn 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 Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2008 by Michael Moorcock and Linda Moorcock
Foreword copyright © 2008 by Walter Mosley
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Michael Wm. Kaluta
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
The stories contained in this work originally appeared in various science fiction magazines and books, as noted on the acknowledgments section.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moorcock, Michael.
Elric: to rescue Tanelorn / Michael Moorcock;
illustrated throughout by Michael Wm. Kalut.
p. cm.—(Chronicles of the last emperor of Melniboné)
PR6063.O59E46 2008
823'.914—dc22
2008005552
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