Eternal Champion (character)

The Eternal Champion is a fictional character created by British author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his speculative fiction works.

This article is about the Michael Moorcock character concept. For the book, see The Eternal Champion (novel).

General overview

A significant amount of Moorcock's novels and short stories take place in one shared Multiverse: a wide array of interconnected parallel universes, many-layered dimensions, spheres, and alternative worlds, which spans from the Big Bang to the End of Time and from Earth to faraway galaxies. All these regions of spaces and parallel timelines are given shape by two metaphysical forces which are perpetually opposed to each other: Law and Chaos, which represent perpetual stasis and ever-changing disorder. Since a clear-cut prevalence of either Law or Chaos would erase all life from the Multiverse, a third force known as the Cosmic Balance enforces certain limits on the powers of Law and Chaos, which in turn ensure the continued existence of the Multiverse. Law, Chaos, and the Balance are implied to be non-sentient, but they do manifest through god-like beings who express one facet ordor another of the three cosmic principles, and in turn, these deities can empower mortal creatures as their heralds and representatives.

The Eternal Champion is, as a matter of fact, an appointed paladin of Balance who is bound to exist in each and every world and age of the Multiverse, so that Law and Chaos are perpetually kept in check; however, he often does not know of his role, or, even worse, he struggles against it, never to succeed. Since he must intervene whenever either Law or Chaos has gained an excess of power, requiring him to tip the scales accordingly, he is always doomed to be surrounded by strife and destruction, although he may go through long periods of relative quiet.

All the different Eternal Champions are implied to be different facets or "incarnations" of one semi-conscious being (a Platonic archetype of a sort): most of them are peerless fighters and generals and have an unbreakable bond with a sentient Chaos-aligned weapon, the Black Sword, which in turns takes on a different overall for each Champion. Likewise, many Champions are aided by an Eternal Companion and an Eternal Consort: a sidekick and a love interest who are themselves aspects of two semi-divine figures. This recursivity through the Multiverse is further underlined by the number of Champions, Companions, and mentor-figures to the Champions Moorcock has given the J and C initials, as a form of naming fil rouge; in the same vein, many Champions and Companions belongs to one branch or another of the extensive von Bek dynasty.

Space- and time-travels through the Multiverse are in fact possible, to the point that one humanoid species called the Eldrens is spread among many different worlds and ages and interacts with many different Champions; howeve, cosmic laws establish that no two Eternal Champions can coexist in the same situation, or the very fabric of reality would be severely damaged. The only exceptions are cataclysmic events such as the end of a Cycle of Cycles of the Multiverse's progression, or an invasion by hostile entities from an entirely separate multiverse: in these cases, different incarnations of the Champion may join forces to thwart the impending threat, possibly by temporarily merging their individual bodies into a true demigod of immense power.

Incarnations

The following list presents all known Champions in alphabetical order, mentions their respective Swords, Companions, and Consorts, and briefly summarizes their individual plotlines and publishing history.

  • Alerik
  • Alivale
  • Konrad Arflane: the hero of the postapocalyptic novel The Ice Schooner (1969), Arflane lives during a new ice age that has engulfed most of Earth and forced the surviving humans to revert to a hunting-gathering economy; he sets sails on the eponymous ice schooner to reach the fabled settlement of New York and scavenge all ancestral knowledge that could help restore human civilization.
  • Artos the Celt
  • Asquiol of Pompeii
  • Aubec, Earl of Malador: Aubec debuted in a 1964 short story titled either "The Dream of Earl Aubec" or "Master of Chaos" depending on the collection: he lives on the same world as Elric of Melniboné many generations before Elric's birth, serves as a national champion of the human kingdom of Lormyria and is the paramour of the Lormyrian monarch, queen Eloarde. Moorcock planned a whole prequel series about Aubec's wars against Melniboné in order to ensure human independence, but the project was eventually aborted and the original tale reincorporated into Elric's saga.
  • Captain Oswald Bastable: the main character and narrator of the Nomad of the Time Streams series (1971-1981), Captain Bastable is an officer of the British Imperial Army stationed in the Raj in the early 20th Century, until a series of time-travel incidents transports him into three different uchronias: a 1971 where the World Wars have not been fought and the British Empire is now encroached by decolonizing movements; a 1904 where Europe has been left in tatters by a precocious and even more devastating Great War; a 1941 where the British and German Empires are firmly allied. Constable's misadventures in these alternative timelines are constructed as a biography and literary historians regard them as the prototypes of the steampunk subgenre.
  • Brian
  • Jherek Carnelian: one of the last humans to be alive on Earth as the Multiverse is nearing the End of Time, Carnelian is a creature of semi-divine power, hedonistic interests and obnoxious morality (not unlike his fellow End-Timers), but his lifestyle changes forever once he falls in love with Mrs. Amelia Underwood, a time traveler from the Nineteenth Century; the couple's courtship, relationship and shared adventures across time and space are the subject of three novels published from 1972 to 1976, later collected as The Dancers at the End of Time. In turn, Carnelian and Underwood's trilogy serves as a backdrop to the Legends at the End of Time: five more semi-autonomous short stories and novelettes taking place at the End of Time, themselves composed in the late Seventies. This series is characterized by a high number of cameos from other leading and supporting characters of the Eternal Champion mythos.
  • Jerry Cornelius: an adventurer and dimensional traveler Moorcock created in the mid-Sixties and developed for the following forty years, resulting in an early tetralogy of novels, The Cornelius Quartet (1968-1977), a ponderous collection of short fiction, The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976), and a later exalogy of novels, The Cornelius Calendar (composed in two stages, 1976-1981 and 2002-2008). Cornelius' saga consists of a wide array of surreal situations kept together by the character's uniquely fluid identity and it represents an influential form of experimental literature in the wider context of psychedelic counterculture. Apart from his main adventures, Cornelius also stars in three spinoff works: the Jerry Cornell duology of parodical spy fiction novels (1970-1980), whose early version featured the non-Champion character Nick Allard; a Doctor Who licensed novel titled The Coming of the Terraphiles (2010), whose Captain Cornelius is in fact Jerry's incarnation in the Whoniverse; and The Distant Suns (1975), a late example of Golden Age Science Fiction Moorcock co-authored with James Cawthorn, where Jerry is depicted as an air force Colonel and a space explorer. Moreover, it is implied that Cornelius might have manifested across the Multiverse as Lord Jagged of Canaria from Jherek Carnelian's series, Jaspar Colinadous from one of Elric's adventures, Hawkmoon's Jehamia Cohnahlias, Corum's Jhary-a-Conel and John Daker's Jermays the Crooked. Jerry's version of the Black Sword is a Needle Gun (later morphed into a Vibragun), his Consort is his own sister Catherine (depicted as his wife in The Distant Suns, to avoid any incestuous undertones), and he has a complicated bond with fellow chrononaut Una Persson.
  • John Daker: a human implied to come from 20th Century Earth, he is forced by Balance to reincarnate into various aspects of the Champion while staying fully aware of all his identities after every transmigration. Through his own series, he takes on four different personas:
    1. Lord Erekosë: a warrior from an unspecified age of Earth's history and the only human capable of holding the radioactive sword Kunajana. At the beginning of the novel The Eternal Champion (1970) Erekosë has been dead for generations, but a necromantic ritual resurrects him as a new existence for John Daker; the reborn Erekosë consequently gets entangled into a total war between humans and Eldrens and into a love triangle between the two factions' princesses, Eldren Ermizhad and human Iolinda.
    2. Count Ulrik Skarlsol: once his missions as Erekosë are resolved, Daker is forcibly transferred into Count Ulrik Skarlsol, Lord of the Frozen Keep, a hybernated hero native to an ice-bound planet. During the novel Phoenix in Obsidian (1970) Count Ulrik embarks on a quest for the mysterious "Chalice" (possibly a counterpart of the Holy Grail) and is forced to wield the Cold Sword, an extremely powerful and malevolent form of the Black Sword.
    3. Clen of Clen-Gar: Daker assumes this comparatively undetailed identity during an interlude of his adventure as Count Ulrik.
    4. Prince Flamadin: Flamadin is the ruler of a dimension called Draachenheem and owns both the Dragon Sword (a Black Sword comparable in power to Ulrik Skarlson's Cold Sword) and the Actoris Stone, an enchanted gem that would later become Elric of Melniboné's family heirloom. In The Dragon in the Sword (1986) Daker as Flamadin and his Companion from 20th Century Germany, Ulrich von Bek, travel across many interconnected dimensions to prevent a major cataclysm.
  • Elric of Melniboné: Moorcock's breakthrough character and the blueprint for all subsequent Eternal Champions, Elric lives in a prehistorical age of Earth and is the sorcerer-emperor of the Melnibonéans, a pre-human species of Chaos-aligned feys (later retconned into being a branch of the Eldren); he wields the soul-eating sword Stormbringer (on which he is co-dependent due to its frail health) and spends his life trying to thwart the Chaos God Arioch, who is also his undesired personal patron due to an ancestral Melnibonéan tradition; the first and last novels in this series also feature Mournblade, Stormbringer's twin sword, which is wielded by Elric's kinsmen. In the early stages of his saga, Elric is enamored of his cousin Princess Cymoril and gets one-time help from the human enchantress Oone the Dreamthief; later on, he falls in love with the human aristocrat Zarozinia and casts his lot with Moonglum of Elwher, a sybaritic sellsword, and Rackhir the Red Archer, a powerful paladin of Balance. Elric's series represents a major milestone in sword & sorcery fiction and, unlike Moorcock's later works, was composed anachronically: it originally consisted of seven short stories and one fix-up novel written from 1961 to 1967, but it was later expanded with an origin story, a prequel and a midquel in the early Seventies, a third prequel and a second midquel in the early Nineties, and some more peripheral contents during the early 21st Century.
  • Franik
  • Professor Faustaff: the leading character of The Wrecks of Time (1965), he is a physicist fighting the space-faring marauders known as the D-Squads in order to protect a series of fifteen different Earths which exist parallelly to Faustaff's own planet. His connection to the other Champions is little more than nominal.
  • Goldberg
  • Duke Dorian Hawkmoon von Köln: a German soldier in a post-nuclear Europe where magic and ancient technology coexist, Duke Hawkmoon embarks on a quest together with his retainer Oladahn to recover the fabled Runestaff (a magical talisman akin to the Holy Grail) and protect the world from the warmongering Dark Empire of Granbretan, which is ruled by the ruthless half-human half-machine King Huon; as this enterprise progresses, Hawkmoon is forcibly bestowed the enchanted Black Jewel, a manifestation of the Black Sword, and falls in love with Yisselda Brass, heiress of a fiefdom in the land of Kamarg. Dorian's war against Granbretan is chronicled in the Runestaff tetralogy (1967-1969) while his family life with Yisselda is central in the Count Brass trilogy (1973-1975), which culminates into a monumental crossover with Elric's, Daker's and Corum's respective series.
  • Ilanth
  • Queen Ilian of Garathorm: one of the very few female Championesses, she teams up with Duke Hawkmoon once he travels to her own world during the Count Brass trilogy.
  • Karl Glogauer: a hedonist and a hippie with a countercultural background, in Behold the Mand (1969) Glogauer time-travels to Roman Palestine so that he can meet Jesus Christ; the later novel Breakfast in the Ruins (1972) details the character's homosexual romances and hallucinatory experiences in contemporary London. He also cameos in Jerry Cornelius's adventures.
  • Corum Jhaelen Irsei: a prince of the Vadhagh, a Law-aligned branch of the Eldren people, Corum effectively becomes the last of his kind after a disastrous war against the Mabdan, a species created by Chaos of which Homo sapiens is the Terran variant. After a period of thralldom, the mutilation of his left hand and right eye, and their replacement with prosthetics (hence his alias as Corum Llaw Ereint, "Corum of the Silver Hand"), the former prince rises in rebellion against his captors and wages a veritable crusade against Chaos, which takes place both in Corum's own age during the Swords trilogy (1971) and in a distant future during the Silver Hand trilogy (1973-1974). As his vendetta unfolds, Corum pursues troubled romances with two human women, Rhalina and Medhbh, and is reliably backed by Jhary-a-Conel, a well-versed dimensional traveler who occasionally supports Hawkmoon as well. Notice that Corum's name is an anagram of "Jeremiah Cornelius".
  • Jack Karaquazian: a leading character in the Second Ether trilogy (1995-1996), which depicts the power struggles between god-like beings (such as Karaquazian himself) of Lawful, Chaotic and neutral affiliation to take control of Balance and swing it their own respective way. Jack is involved in an entangled love affair with his Consort Colinda Dovero, his Companion Sam Oakenburst and Sam's other love interest Rose von Bek.
  • Klan the Spoiler
  • Michael Kane of Old Mars: the hero of a 1965 trilogy of novelettes, Michael Kane is a human from Earth transported to a fictional version of Mars, where he gets embroiled into swashbuckling adventures and court intrigues (including a romance with Martian queen Shizala). Kane is constructed as an explicit homage and throwback to the planetary romance subgenre and, more specifically, to John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs; in turn, the biographical style of the trilogy represents a direct antecedent to Oswald Constable's saga.
  • Mejink-La-Kos
  • M'v Okom Sebpt O'Riley, Gunholder of the Qui Lors Ventures: another female Championess, she wields the Black Sword under the guise of a soul-eating pistol, the Banning Gun. She acts as a mentor to Eric Beck in Elric: The Balance Lost.
  • Oshbek-Uy
  • Pournachas
  • Colonel Maxim Arturovitch "Pyat" Pyatnitski: possibly the only Champion whose adventures are fully mimetic rather than fantastical, Colonel Pyat is a long-lived Russian aristocrat and military man born on the 1st of January 1900. He spends his life traveling across the globe and getting entangled into all sorts of high-level political intrigues, effectively shaping the fates of Europe before, during, and after the World Wars; the love of his turbulent and opportunistic life is Honoria Cornelius, Jerry's mother. Moorcock composed the Pyat Quartet at a relatively slow pace between 1981 and 2006 and structured it as a self-celebratory four-volume autobiography by the Colonel himself, with Moorcock acting as an editor.
  • C. Ryan: the lead character of The Black Corridor (1969), Ryan lives in a dystopian future of rampaging xenophobia, nuclear warfare and societal collapse; he commandeers the interstellar spaceship Hope Dempsy and tries to bring a rag-tag group of refugees to safety.
  • The "Scar-Faced Brooder" or "Cronarch": a character from Moorcock's juvenile short stories collected into the anthology The Time Dweller (1969), the Cronarch is later retconned into a Champion who preceded Count Urlik Skarlsol on the latter's same world.
  • Shaleen
  • Sojan the Swordsman: Moorcock's first original character, Sojan first appeared on the Tarzan Adventures magazine during the Fifties and his short stories were collected in book form in 1977. He is a deceased Terran who reincarnates on the planet Zylor and embarks in a series of Burroughs-esque adventures. His sword and pneumatic gun are prototypes of the Black Sword, but his actual signature weapon is a shield (hence the moniker of "Sojan Shieldbearer").
  • Umpata
  • Ghardas Valabasian, Conqueror of the Distant Suns
  • Graf Ulrich von Bek: a German soldier fighting in the Thirty Years' War, Graf Ulrich is the leading character of the historical fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), in which he strikes a deal with the Devil and takes upon his family the duty of locating and guarding the Holy Grail; his Companion and Consort in this adventure are Gurni Gurnisson and Sabrina von Bek. Graf Ulrich's actions reverberate through space and time by making the von Beks aware of the Multiverse, the designated owners of the sword Ravenbrand (which is, in fact, Mournblade from Elric's series) and uniquely attuned to magic and dimensional travel, so that different members of the bloodline are involved in many other sagas and stand-alone episodes of the Eternal Champion mythos. Noteworthy Von Beks across the cycle are:
    • Alan von Bek (originally Alan Powys, later retconned into a von Bek): a human from a distant future where humankind has retreated underground under the stewardship of a despotic government, Alan is a state functionary antagonizing a radical revolutionary known as "The Fireclown". Their struggle is the subject of the science fiction novel The Winds of Limbo (1965).
    • Manfred von Bek: the main character of The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), a direct sequel to The War Hound and the World's Pain, Manfred carries on Graf Ulrich's quest for the Grail as Europe is engulfed by the French Revolution; he is aided by the Duchess of Crete, Libussa Cartagena y Mendoza-Chilperic.
    • Renark von Bek: a citizen of humankind's stellar empire established in the aftermath of World War Three, Renark is tasked with traveling to a secluded dimension known as the Sundered Worlds so that he can stabilize the Multiverse and prevent its untimely collapse. He stars in The Sundered Worlds (1965), Moorcock's very first full-length novel.
    • Rose von Bek: the last survivor of a militant order devoted to Balance, she was originally known as "The Rose", but married into the von Bek family and kept the surname after her divorce. She is a one-time support character in Elric's saga and a co-protagonist in the Second Ether series. While no Championess herself, her cosmic power is comparable to that of the various Champions. Her signature weapons are the sword Swift Thorn and the dagger Little Thorn.
    • Ulrich von Bek: a direct descendant of Graf Ulrich, he rebels against Adolf Hitler and escapes death by serving as an Eternal Companion to John Daker once the latter incarnates into Prince Flamadin during The Dragon in the Sword; their shared endeavors lead Ulrich to fall in love with female Eldren Alisaard.
    • Ulric von Bek: a distinct character from the former (notice the h-less spelling of his name), he too opposes the Third Reich together with his wife Oona von Bek, a half-human half-Melnibonéan hybrid who has relocated to 20th Century Germany. The couple is the leading characters of the Moonbeam Roads Trilogy (2001-2005), an explicit crossover between Elric's saga and the Von Bek's. The events of this series also implies that John Daker could be part-Melnibonéan himself.
    • Count Ulrich Rudric Renark Otto von Bek-Krasny, also known as "Zenith the Albino": an Eternal Champion existing on 20th Century Earth and most likely a reincarnation of Elric of Melniboné, since his Black Sword is Stormbringer itself; he is a criminal mastermind and is perpetually engaged into a cat-and-mouse game against his distant cousin Sir Seaton Begg, a British detective belonging to the English branch of the von Beks. Zenith and Begg's shared adventure were composed anachronically and collected for the first time in The Metatemporal Detective (2007) and some of them also appear in the second volume of the Second Ether series, Fabulous Harbours (1995), which results in a crossover between the two series.
    • Eric Beck: the main character of the graphic novel Elric: The Balance Lost (2011-2012), he is an Eternal Champion living on 21st Century Earth and gets dragged into an ensemble adventure together with Elric, Hawkmoon, Corum, Oswald Bastable and the cast of the Second Ether series. His Black Sword is a Japanese katana named Murakamo-No-Tsurugi ("Sword of the Gathering Clouds"). He is likely a collateral member of the Von Bek dynasty through the Begg lineage.
    • Clovis Becker (originally Clovi Marca, later retconned into a distant von Bek): one of the last human denizens of a future Earth which has stopped rotating and is now divided between a daily and a nightly hemisphere, Clovis embarks on a quest to cure humankind's severe sterility and grant his species a future. His adventure is depicted in The Shores of Death (1966).

In addition to Moorcock's own creations, a number of references through his works have stated that Ulysses and Roland have been Earth's Eternal Champions as well.

The Tale of the Eternal Champion

Between 1992 and 1993 Moorcock partnered with British publisher Orion Publishing Group to print a 14-volumes collection of novels and short stories belonging to the Eternal Champion macro-series, under the moniker of «The Tale of the Eternal Champion»; starting from 1994 and up to 2000, a parallel project was undertaken by White Wolf Publishing for the North American market, and this version of the imprint ended up including some contents left out of its European counterpart. While by no means complete, the White Wolf edition was the most extensive author-endorsed collection up to that point and has served as a basis for subsequent expanded anthologies.

What follows is the full content of the North American edition; each title is accompanied by the name(s) of the Eternal Champion(s) and Companion(s) it is centered upon.

Vol. 1: The Eternal Champion

It combines the first two John Daker's novels, with the science-fictional episode of the Von Bek saga serving as an interlude; the fourth text is a spinoff of Elric's series centered upon Rackhir the Red Archer.

  • The Eternal Champion [John Daker as Erekosë]
  • The Sundered Worlds (alternatively titled The Blood Red Game) [Renark von Bek and Asquiol of Pompeii]
  • Phoenix in Obsidian (alternatively titled The Silver Warriors) [John Daker as Erekosë and Urlik Skarsol]
  • "To Rescue Tanelorn" [Rackhir the Red Archer]

Vol. 2: Von Bek

Tying in with Volume 1, it combines the historical fantasy duology centered on the Von Beks and the final novel in Daker's series; the fourth text is a minor episode of the Von Bek saga.

Vol. 3: Hawkmoon

The Runestaff tetralogy starring Dorian Hawkmoon.

Vol. 4: A Nomad of the Time Streams

The Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy starring Oswald Bastable.

Vol. 5: Elric: Song of the Black Sword

Book One of the series starring Elric of Melniboné; it includes the three prequel novels and the first three short stories.

Vol. 6: The Roads Between the Worlds

A triptych of stand-alone novels featuring dystopian far-future settings.

  • The Wrecks of Time (alternatively titled The Rituals of Infinity) [Professor Faustaff]
  • The Winds of Limbo (originally titled The Fireclown) [Alan Powys/Alan von Beck]
  • The Shores of Death (originally titled The Twilight Man) [Clovi Marca/Clovis Becker]

Vol. 7: Corum: The Coming of Chaos

The Swords trilogy starring Corum Jhaelen Irsei.

  • The Knight of the Swords
  • The Queen of the Swords
  • The King of the Swords [with cameos of Elric and John Daker as Erekosë]

Vol. 8: Sailing to Utopia

A triptych of stand-alone novels featuring sea or space travel; the fourth text is a minor episode of the Von Bek saga.

  • The Ice Schooner [Konrad Arflane]
  • The Black Corridor [Ryan]
  • The Distant Suns (co-written with James Cawthorn) [Colonel Jerry Cornelius]
  • "Flux" [Max von Bek]

Vol. 9: Kane of Old Mars

The Kane of Old Mars trilogy starring Michael Kane.

  • City of the Beast (originally titled Warriors of Mars)
  • Lord of the Spiders (originally titled Blades of Mars)
  • Masters of the Pit (originally titled Barbarians of Mars)

Vol. 10: The Dancers at the End of Time

The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy starring Jherek Carnelian and Amelia Underwood.

  • An Alien Heat
  • The Hollow Lands
  • The End of All Songs

Vol. 11: Elric: The Stealer of Souls

Book Two of the series starring Elric; it includes the two midquels, the later short stories, and the original conclusive novel.

  • The Sleeping Sorceress (alternatively titled The Vanishing Tower) [with cameos of John Daker as Erekosë and Corum]
  • The Revenge of the Rose
  • "The Stealer of Souls"
  • "Kings in Darkness"
  • "The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams" (alternatively titled "The Flame Bringers")
  • Stormbringer

Vol. 12: Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand

The Silver Hand trilogy starring Corum.

  • The Bull and the Spear
  • The Oak and the Ram
  • The Sword and the Stallion

Vol. 13: Legends from the End of Time

The five stand-alone novellas connected to The Dancers at the End of Time.

  • "Pale Roses"
  • "White Stars"
  • "Ancient Shadows"
  • "Constant Fire" (alternatively titled The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming and A Messiah at the End of Time)
  • Elric at the End of Time [Elric]

A collection of 33 stand-alone short stories starring Earl Aubec, Elric, Corum, and others.

Vol. 15: Count Brass

The Count Brass trilogy featuring Dorian Hawkmoon.

  • Count Brass
  • The Champion of Garathorm [with a cameo of Ilian of Garathorm]
  • The Quest for Tanelorn [with cameos of John Daker as Erekosë, Corum, and Elric]

Notice that Volume 8 is exclusive to the White Wolf collection, while the North American Volume 9 devoted to Kane of Old Mars came to be at the expense of the original Orion Volume 9: The New Nature of the Catastrophe: a collection of miscellaneous short stories starring Jerry Cornelius, both by Michael Moorcock and other authorized writers.

Other Entries in the Mythos

What follows is a list of Moorcock's works belonging to the Eternal Champion sequence that were left out of the Orion/White Wolf collection or have been composed after the year 2000.

Elric of Melniboné
  • Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer (2005): a graphic novel detailing Elric's education, it takes place a few years before the novel Elric of Melniboné.
  • "The Roaming Forest" (2006): a spinoff short story centered upon Rackhir the Red Archer.
  • "A Portrait in Ivory" (2007): an interquel short story slotting between "The Dreaming City" and "Where the Gods Laugh".

Jerry Cornelius

As himself:

As Captain Cornelius:

As Jerry Cornell:

  1. The Chinese Agent (1970)
  2. The Russian Intelligence (1980)

The Pyat Quartet

The tetralogy starring Colonel Maxim "Pyat" Pyatnitski.

  1. Byzantium Endures (1981)
  2. The Laughter of Carthage (1984)
  3. Jerusalem Commands (1992)
  4. The Vengeance of Rome (2006)

The Second Ether

The trilogy of novels and collected short stories featuring Rose von Bek, Sam Oakenburst, Colinda Dovero, Jack Karaquazian, Sir Seaton Begg, and Count Zenith.

  1. Blood: A Southern Fantasy (1994)
  2. Fabulous Harbours (a collection of 11 short stories, 1995)
  3. The War Amongst The Angels (1996)

The Moonbeam Roads

The crossover series between Elric's and the Von Beks' sagas, centered upon Ulric and Oona von Bek.

  1. Daugther of Dreams (originally titled The Dreamthief's Daughter, 2001)
  2. Destiny's Brother (originally titled The Skrayling Tree, 2003)
  3. Son of the Wolf (originally titled The White Wolf's Son, 2003)

See also
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces: an anthropological essay on the narrative structures of myths by influential scholar Joseph Campbell and a prominent source of literary inspiration for Moorcock's generation.

Notes

    References
    • Darren Harris-Fain, "British fantasy and science-fiction writers since 1960", Gale Group, 2002, ISBN 0-7876-6005-1, p. 293
    • Carter Kaplan, "Fractal fantasies of transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock and the utilities of mythographic shamanism" in "New boundaries in political science fiction", (edd Donald M. Hassler, Clyde Wilcox) Univ of South Carolina Press, 2008, ISBN 1-57003-736-1, pp. 35–52
    • Frank Northern Magill, "Survey of modern fantasy literature, Volume 1", Salem Press, 1983, ISBN 0-89356-451-6, p. 489
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