![]() Howard, the writer Moorcock was famously writing in reaction to, might have described the first Elric pieces as “zestful”), to the deeply considered and cultivated language of this new novel, the many, many works that have featured the character have never failed to engage and entertain Moorcock’s many fans. Writing in the fanzine Niekas in 1964, the year that saw the “saga” supposedly completed, Moorcock said, “I’ve found that I can only really learn from my mistakes after they’ve been published, which is hard on the reader.” But from the energetic and fanciful prose of those early magazine appearances (Robert E. The road from the city to the citadel is far from a straight one. And expanded, condensed, revised, revisited and at times even retitled the stories and books that began with a novelette, “The Dreaming City”, first published in the British magazine Science Fantasy in 1961 and continuing on down the decades to this latest entry, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. ![]() The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, Michael Moorcock ( Saga 978-1-98219-980-7, 336pp, $28.99, hc) December 2022.įor over 60 years, Michael Moorcock has written the adventures of the doomed albino swordsman Elric of Melniboné. ![]()
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