A review by ianbanks
Elric At The End Of Time by Michael Moorcock

3.0

While the titular Elric story is quite entertaining, it's a fairly lightweight piece, as are the other fictional offerings in this volume, including the rather good natured self-parody of The Stone Thing, the story that rounds out this collection. The series of episodic short stories that make up the Sojan collection are only there for completists or fans of Mr Moorcock's juvenilia or for people who want to track the progress of an author across his entire career. While I love a lot of the work of Moorcock, he is not that author for me. Of more interest to readers like me are the two non-fiction pieces detailing the development of Elric as a character and just how much he mirrored Moorcock's inner life and the state of play in British SF when he came to edit New Worlds. I very rarely use the expression "curate's egg" but it feels particularly apposite here.