Michael Moorcock (1939- )
The Eternal Champion
To understand Michael Moorcock's superseries of books that fall under the Eternal Champion title,
one must be familiar with the concept of the "multiverse": it describes a Universe in which
multiple parallel worlds co-exist, constantly(but never permanently) intersecting with one another.
In this infinite nesting of intersecting worlds, similar dramas are played and replayed by different
characters who inhabit the different worlds, but who reduce to a relatively small cast of core
identities. Of these recurring characters, the most central is the figure of the Eternal Champion,
the protagonist of various series including the Eternal Champion or Erekose sequence,
Elric of Melnibone, the Warrior of Mars, Hawkmoon, Corum, and Von Beck.
In these fantasies, the Champion's task is to combat Chaos on behalf of Order. The majority
of these series are sword & sorcery novels, but devices such as the multiverse,
The Time Manipulation Device, and various odd intermultidemensional travellers give these works
a strong SF flavor.
Eternal Champion Titles
Erekose
- The Eternal Champion (1970)
- Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)
- The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell (1979)
- The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
- Elric of Melnibone (internal chron.)
- Elric of Melnibone (1972)
- The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
- The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1973)
- The Weird of the White Wolf (1976)
- The Sleeping Sorceress (1971)
- The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
- The Bane of the Black Sword (1977)
- Warrior of Mars
- Warriors of Mars (1965)
- Blades of Mars (1965)
- Barbarians of Mars (1965)
- All compiled as Warrior of Mars (1981)
- Hawkmoon
- Runestaff
- The Jewel in the Skull (1967)
- Sorcerer's Amulet (1968)
- Sword of the Dawn (1969)
- The Secret of the Runestaff (1969)
- Compilation: The History of the Runestaff (1979)
- Count Brass
- Count Brass (1973)
- The Champion of Garathorm (1973)
- The Quest for Tanelorn (1975)
- Compiled: The Chronicles of Castle Brass (1985)
- Corum
- The Knight of the Swords (1971)
- The Queen of the Swords (1971)
- The King of the Swords (1971)
- above compiled as: The Swords Trilogy (1977)
- The Bull and the Spear (1973)
- The Oak and the Ram (1973)
- The Sword and the Stallion (1974)
- prev. 3 compiled as: The Chronicles of Corum (1977)
- Von Bek
- The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981)
- The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)
- compiled+new as: Von Bek (1992)
Other Michael Moorcock Links:
A Michael Moorcock/Elric Fanpage.
Focuses more on the Elric saga but is also a good page for Michael Moorcock info.
A Series Bibliography.
A well-organized listing that covers most (but not completely all) of Moorcock's works.
Visit Tanelorn.
A site inspired by and dedicated to the Eternal Champion saga. This site is still in development
but looks like an ambitious attempt and an intriguing project.
Follow the dragon to return to the index.
This page created by Kenneth LaGrone.
Last update: May 27, 1997