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The two Moorcock-scripted tales, Duke Elric and Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer, have of course developed the saga further still, and also more recently there have been both Elric: The Balance Lost (2011/’12, an original 12-part graphic series by Chris Roberson & Francesco Biagini) and a French sequence of loose adaptations comprising (to date) Le Trône de Rubis, Stormbringer, Le Loup Blanc and La Cité Qui Rêve (2013–’21) by Julien Blondel, with Didier Poli, Robin Recht, Jean-Luc Cano, Julien Telo, and others.
Also heavily and ornately illustrated are the various rule books and supplements for Elric-related role-playing games from the American companies Chaosium (whose best-known Stormbringer has itself been revised and massively expanded several times) and more recently Mongoose Publishing with their Elric of Melniboné. There are also French RPGs in existence, and a Swedish video game in development.
Elric ephemera has become quite a major industry and, if a long-awaited Elric movie ever comes to fruition, such things can only be expected to blossom further still. There have already been collectable cards, die-cast miniatures, dolls, jigsaw puzzles, model-kits, posters, T-shirts, “replica” swords and, of course, records.
Moorcock’s musical involvement with several rock bands, including his own, is well known. He wrote an Elric-related song, “Black Blade,” for Blue Öyster Cult, but it is Hawkwind who have used the albino prince to the best effect. In 1985, they released the album The Chronicle of the Black Sword, and went on an accompanying theatrical concert tour—sometimes featuring Moorcock on stage with the band—which also gave rise to a live album, Live Chronicles, and video/DVD, some versions of which include Moorcock performances.
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Quite what the ever-taciturn Elric would make of all this attention, I am not sure. Sixty years on, he has already endured far more than those first nine SCIENCE FANTASY novellas would have had us believe possible. Only time will tell us where else he goes from here…
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MICHAEL MOORCOCK is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Bram Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. For individual works, he has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.
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