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Originally Posted by Giovanna Clairval  I recently re-read the first Elric series. I found it profound, this second time (I've grown up a little).
Didn't Moorcock publish the very first Elric novel when he was twenty-one? |
Let me think a minute... He was born in 1939, and the first Elric story ("The Dreaming City") was published in Science Fantasy #47, June 1961; the first part of S
tormbringer (which was a serial), was published in #61, Oct. 1963. The first book of the series (
The Stealer of Souls, comprised of the stories "The Dreaming City", "While the Gods Laugh", "The Stealer of Souls", "Kings in Darkness", and "The Flame Bringers") was published in 1963, while the novel version of
Stormbringer (with about a quarter of the material cut) was published in 1965. (Later, in the late 1970s, Moorcock restored the material using the original serial, and revised the novel slightly as well.)
So... he published the first story of the series when he was about that age, but the first actual novel (if you include
Stormbringer as such, which was actually conceived as a quartet of four novelettes comprising a larger story, from what I recall him saying) wasn't published until a couple of years later, in serial form. The first book of the series came out about the same time. The first actual novel of the series, written as such, was actually
Elric of Melniboné, published in 1972....
(Ummm... the Elric series -- as well as several other things of his -- has had a
very complicated publishing history.....
)
And now you have much more information than you
ever wanted to know.....
