Elric Volume 2: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (CD-Audio)

from Karlstar

The second in the Elric saga, this book is inventive and dark, perhaps the prototype for dark, anti-hero fantasy. A short book and a fast read, well worth the time if you are into brooding heroes.

from bibleblaster

Book 2 in the Elric saga, this did not disappoint. I am a sucker for the way Moorcock weaves adventure with existentialist musings (never heavy-handed). Guess I prefer melancholic fantasy to the triumphant "good against evil" type that seems to be such the rage. I missed these when they came out ...

from kevn57

Of the three books that make up volume two of the Elric saga my favorite's were book one and three, two has a good a story but book one ties ties together protagonists of Moorcock's multiverse. While book three sets up the doom that Elric has inadvertently called up his plane of existence as he s...

from iftyzaidi

In the past I've found much of the Elric canon underwhelming. It turns out I was somewhat unlucky about the order I read the Elric books, discovering Moorcock through some of his weaker books (Elric at the End of Time & Fortress of the Pearl). As a result my interest in Moorcock in general, and i...

from TobinElliott

The second in the Elric chronicles, this one is essentially three novella-length adventures, all linked to each other. While some of the tropes continue (women in need of saving, etc.), the writing seems to have matured a touch. It's still very much the trippy Michael Moorcock you've come to kno...