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Elric At The End Of Time by Michael Moorcock
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Elric at the End of Time - 4.5
The title story is an easyly the best in this collection. Elric travels to the end of time, meeting characters that I'm sure are familiar to people who've read those stories but also Una Persson who appears in the Oswald Bastable novels 9and, I assume, the End of Time series). Fun commentary on who Elric is and how moody and melodramatic a character he is.
The Last Enchantment - 3/5
This story was a fun and weird non-canonical short Elric tale as the Albino Prince of Ruins is transported to a chaos realm and has to do some quick thinking to escape. Nothing stellar but good none the less.
Sojan Shieldbearer - 2/5
These stories are passable. It's interesting to see some of the first work Moorcock ever produced but he has definitely substantially improved, even by the early 60's. Nothing very good but if you like to see an author's evolution, this will give you an idea of where Moorcock started out as a teenager.
The Essay's - 3/5
The various essays were interesting to read though, aside from the Elric one, were seemingly irrelevant to the rest of the stories within, mainly focusing on Jerry Cornelius who is only briefly mentioned in the title story. Good insight into the author and the diferent things he's been invovled in such as the New World magazine.
The Stone Thing - 3/5
Funny little short that satirises many of the tropes that Elric and other fantasy heroes of Moorcock make use of. Funny, short read.
Overall - 3/5
An uneven collection that isn't really about Elric at all. The Elric stuff is all pretty good, its just a shame that the majority of the content is based around the uninteresting character of Sojan.
The title story is an easyly the best in this collection. Elric travels to the end of time, meeting characters that I'm sure are familiar to people who've read those stories but also Una Persson who appears in the Oswald Bastable novels 9and, I assume, the End of Time series). Fun commentary on who Elric is and how moody and melodramatic a character he is.
The Last Enchantment - 3/5
This story was a fun and weird non-canonical short Elric tale as the Albino Prince of Ruins is transported to a chaos realm and has to do some quick thinking to escape. Nothing stellar but good none the less.
Sojan Shieldbearer - 2/5
These stories are passable. It's interesting to see some of the first work Moorcock ever produced but he has definitely substantially improved, even by the early 60's. Nothing very good but if you like to see an author's evolution, this will give you an idea of where Moorcock started out as a teenager.
The Essay's - 3/5
The various essays were interesting to read though, aside from the Elric one, were seemingly irrelevant to the rest of the stories within, mainly focusing on Jerry Cornelius who is only briefly mentioned in the title story. Good insight into the author and the diferent things he's been invovled in such as the New World magazine.
The Stone Thing - 3/5
Funny little short that satirises many of the tropes that Elric and other fantasy heroes of Moorcock make use of. Funny, short read.
Overall - 3/5
An uneven collection that isn't really about Elric at all. The Elric stuff is all pretty good, its just a shame that the majority of the content is based around the uninteresting character of Sojan.