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The Fortress of the Pear!
{A Novel of Eiric)

By Michael Moorcock
Published by Ace Books

MICHAEL MOORCOCK has
preserved a style of fantasy writing
that got its start in oid sci-fi and

fantasy mags.

In Review

LOOKS AT BOOKS

{ would include in this genre
such works as the Conan novels
and Edgar Rice Burrough’s john
Carter of Mars series.

Not exactly an involved charac-
ter study, it’s a rather two-dimen-
sional but highly imaginative,
comic book-like style that has
much the same appeal as comics
or action movies.

The Elric Saga (seven novels and
one short story) is linked closely to
over a dozen other books as the
Eternal Champion series. in which
Elric is one of several incarnations
of the same soul.

Elric is the crown prince of the
Melniboneans, who, for centuries,
have lorded over the Young
Kingdoms inhabited by Man, and
who have declined in the de-
cadence of their absolute power.

Elric is an albino and a weakling,
kept alive by herbs and by (what
Moorcock never calls) a deamon
sword called Stormbringer. The
sword eats the souls of those it
kills and imparts some of the
energy it gains to Elric.

The Fortress of the Pearl actually
takes place in the middle of the
original Elric books and is rather
typical Elric fare for the most part.

The writing is somewhat sparse,
action oriented and plot-driven,
but generally contains some in-
teresting scenes if one really pays
attention and imagines them vivid-
ly: ‘overhead they could see a
sky like diseased pewter in which
dark, leathery things flew and
communicated with desolate cries
above palms whose leaves
resembled nothing so much as
viridian skins stretched out to
await a sun which never rose.”

Elric himself has changed over
the years. In the old takes, Elric
had a decidedly evil streak in him.
In this story he seemed too caring
and noble-minded, as if this Elric
had sat on the shelf for a few
years, mellowing.

— By Ross W. Powell, a North
/ancouver writer.

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