The Sleeping Sorceress (33 page)

ORIGINS

Early artwork associated with Elric’s first
appearances in magazines and books.

A page from an aborted graphic adaptation of
Stormbringer
, by James Cawthorn, 1965, previously unpublished.

Front- and back-cover artwork by James Cawthorn, for
The Sleeping Sorceress
, first edition, New English Library, 1971.

“The Age of the Young Kingdoms” map by James Cawthorn, 1971; first published in
Elric of Melniboné
, first edition.

Cover artwork designed by Laurence Cutting, for
Elric of Melniboné
, first edition, Hutchinson, 1972.

Cover artwork by Michael Whelan, for
The Vanishing Tower
, first retitled edition of
The Sleeping Sorceress
, DAW Books, 1977.

Cover artwork by Robert Gould, for
The Weird of the White Wolf
, book three of the Elric Saga as reconfigured in the mid-1970s, Berkley Books, 1983, comprising “Master of Chaos” (as “The Dream of Earl Aubec”) and three stories from
The Stealer of Souls
.

Front- and back-cover artwork by Dalmazio Frau, for
Elric of Melniboné
, first audiobook edition, AudioRealms, 2003.

Cover artwork by Chris Achilleos, for
Elric de Melniboné
/
La Fortaleza de la Perla
(
Elric of Melniboné
/
The Fortress of the Pearl
), Spanish edition, Edhasa, 2007.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Recently voted by the London
Times
one of the fifty greatest English writers since 1945, M
ICHAEL
J
OHN
M
OORCOCK
is an SFWA Grand Master and the author of a number of science fiction, fantasy, and literary novels, including the Elric novels, the Cornelius Quartet,
Gloriana, King of the City,
and many more. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine
New Worlds,
Moorcock fostered the development of the New Wave in the U.K. and indirectly in the U.S. He won the Nebula Award for his novella
Behold the Man.
He has also won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and many others.
Mother London
was shortlisted (final three) for the Whitbread Prize.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

A graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Art, award-winning artist S
TEVE
E
LLIS
began his career as a penciller for both Marvel and DC Comics, where he illustrated iconic titles such as
Iron Man, Green Lantern,
and
Lobo,
then moved on to illustrate for Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and Spectrum. Recently, along with author David Gallaher, Steve co-created the critically acclaimed werewolf western webcomic series
High Moon
for DC Comics.

Steve is honored to be contributing art to this most recent incarnation of Elric. Michael Moorcock’s powerful writing and the fantastic imagery created by Elric’s numerous past illustrators have been an inspiration. In executing Elric, Steve draws his influences from the classic illustration work of Gustav Dore and Joseph Clement Cole, as well as that of modern artists.

After several years teaching illustration and drawing at the university he once attended, Steve has moved to Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and son.

ALSO BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK

Behold the Man
Breakfast in the Ruins
Gloriana
The Metatemporal Detective

T
HE
C
ORNELIUS
Q
UARTET
The Final Program
A Cure for Cancer
The English Assassin
The Condition of Muzak

B
ETWEEN THE
W
ARS:
T
HE
P
YAT
Q
UARTET
Byzantium Endures
The Laughter of Carthage
Jerusalem Commands
The Vengeance of Rome

And many more

Elric The Sleeping Sorceress
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2008 by Michael Moorcock and Linda Moorcock
Foreword copyright © 2008 by Holly Black
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Steven Ellis

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

D
EL
R
EY
is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

The stories contained in this work originally appeared in various science fiction magazines and books, as noted on the following acknowledgments page.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moorcock, Michael.
Elric : the sleeping sorceress / Michael Moorcock ;
illustrated throughout by Steve Ellis.
p. cm. — (Chronicles of the last emperor of Melniboné ;)
Elric of Melniboné (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Swordsmen—Fiction.3. Albinos and albinism—Fiction. 4. Fantasy fiction, English.
I. Title.
PR6063.O59E467 2008
823’.914—dc22                                                      2008028814

www.delreybooks.com

The Sleeping Sorceress
was first published in the UK by New English Library in 1971.

Elric of Melniboné
was first published in the UK by Hutchinson in 1972.

“And So the Great Emperor Received His Education . . .” first appeared as a spoken-word introduction to an audiobook edition of
Elric of Melniboné
by AudioRealms in 2003 and appears here in print for the first time.

“Aspects of Fantasy (1)” first appeared in
Science Fantasy
magazine, no. 61, October 1963, edited by John Carnell.

The introduction to
Elric of Melniboné
’s graphic adaptation, First Comics, was published in 1986.

“El Cid and Elric” first appeared in Argentina, in
Comiqueando
magazine, no. 100, August/September 2007.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

The Sleeping Sorceress
cover artwork copyright © James Cawthorn, 1971.
Reprinted by permission of James Cawthorn.

Elric of Melniboné
cover design copyright © Laurence Cutting, 1972.
Used by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

“The Age of the Young Kingdoms” map, first published in
Elric of Melniboné
, copyright © James Cawthorn. Reprinted by permission of James Cawthorn.

The Vanishing Tower
cover painting by Michael Whelan © 1977.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of DAW Books.

Previously unpublished page from graphic adaptation of
Stormbringer
copyright © James Cawthorn, 1965. Reprinted by permission of James Cawthorn.

The Weird of the White Wolf
cover artwork copyright © 1983 Berkley Publishing Group. Reprinted by permission of Berkley Books.

(“Melniboné”) map, by
, 1992, appeared in
(
The Dreaming City
/
The Sleeping Sorceress
), Terra Fantastica, 2001. Original map drawn by James Cawthorn. Reprinted by permission of James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock.

Elric of Melniboné
audiobook cover artwork copyright © Dalmazio Frau, 2003. Reprinted by permission of AudioRealms.

Elric de Melniboné
/
La Fortaleza de la Perla
(
Elric of Melniboné
/
The Fortress of the Pearl
) cover artwork copyright © Chris Achilleos, 2007.
Reprinted by permission of Edhasa Books.

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