Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock is an English fantasy, science fiction, and literary writer associated with the New Wave and with the multiverse of the Eternal Champion. Elric of Melniboné, Stormbringer, The Vanishing Tower, The Eternal Champion, The Bane of the Black Sword, and Behold the Man show his taste for antiheroes, doomed empires, metaphysical conflict, and genre experimentation.

For English-language readers, Moorcock is important because he challenged heroic fantasy from within. Elric is fragile, morally ambiguous, dependent on a soul-drinking sword, and far from the usual conquering hero. Readers interested in dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, New Wave science fiction, multiverse fiction, antiheroic adventure, and experimental genre writing will find a highly influential author.