I can understand why a literary analyst or a die-hard fan might want to follow this order to get the full effect of Moorcock’s evolution as a writer.
He wrote every bloody thing out of sequence, starting with stories that would comprise book 4, ending with book 6, and blitzing around in-between:īook 4: The Weird of the White Wolf (1961)īook 7: The Bane of the Black Sword (1962)īook 3: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976) Moorcock didn’t write a trilogy or two, followed by a few prequels. In this case you should definitely not follow the publication order.
Prequels are usually bad starting points, but there are exceptions, and the Elric saga is one of them. In the ongoing debate about prequels, I have said that publication order is almost always preferable to narrative chronological order.
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