Stormbringer: Volume 2: The Sleeping Sorceress, The Revenge of the Rose, The Bane of the Black Sword, and Stormbringer

Michael Moorcock

Jun 2022 · RB Media · Narrated by Samuel Roukin

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From World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Moorcock comes the second volume of the author's definitive editions of the famous Elric of Melniboné series

In one of the most well-loved fantasy epics of the twentieth century, Elric is the brooding, albino emperor of the dying Kingdom of Melniboné. After defeating his nefarious cousin and gaining control over the epic sword Stormbringer, Elric,
prince of ruins, must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in a fight against Armageddon.

Stormbringer is the second volume in the definitive Elric editions of the series that has transformed and influenced the fantasy genre for generations.

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6 reviews

Adam A

November 1, 2023

I'm very impressed with this reading by Samuel Roukin. He did an excellent job of matching the tone of the stories and had a good grasp of this strange material. It has been a long time since I've read these stories and I have to say they really do hold up with time and age. One thing that is different for me in hearing these stories so long after I read them is how humorous Michael Moorcock actually is. There would be times when I would be listening in public that I would laugh out loud and turn more than a few heads. Moorcock is great at illustrating his position that our world is, as much as his fantasy world, somewhat of an absurd place when it is not dark, where people's gods are no more clever than the least of them and certainly no more circumspect. That such beings should play a role in the grand drama and tragedy of Stormbringer is very much the sharp end of this saga. And I loved every minute of it.

Ray Nabors

March 13, 2023

Man these books are totally worth it but don't expect a heroic epic. It's an epic. not heroic. The world building is amazing.

Lee Keeler

August 14, 2024

amazing

About the author

Michael Moorcock, 1939 - Writer Michael Moorcock was born December 18, 1939 in Mitcham, Surrey, England. Moorcock was the editor of the juvenile magazine Tarzan Adventures from 1956-58, an editor and writer for the Sexton Blake Library and for comic strips and children's annuals from 1959-61, an editor and pamphleteer for Liberal Party in 1962, and became editor and publisher for the science fiction magazine New Worlds in 1964. He has worked as a singer-guitarist, has worked with the rock bands Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult and is a member of the rock band Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix. Moorcock's writing covers a wide range of science fiction and fantasy genres. "The Chronicles of Castle Brass" was a sword and sorcery novel, and "Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity" uses the character Karl Glogauer as a different person in different times. Karl participates in the political violence of the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, and a Nazi concentration camp. Moorcock also wrote books and stories that featured the character Jerry Cornelius, who had no consistent character or appearance. "The Condition of Muzak" completed the initial Jerry Cornelius tetralogy and won Guardian Literary Prize in 1977. "Byzantium Endures" and "The Laughter of Carthage" are two autobiographical novels of the Russian emigre Colonel Pyat and were the closest Moorcock came to conventional literary fiction. "Byzantium Endures" focuses on the first twenty years of Pyat's life and tells of his role in the Russian revolution. Pyat survives the revolution and the subsequent civil war by working first for one side and then another. "The Laughter of Carthage" covers Pyat's life from 1920-1924 telling of his escape from Communist Russia and his travels in Europe and America. It's a sweeping picture of the world during the 1920's because it takes the character from living in Constantinople to Hollywood. Moorcock returned to the New Wave style in "Blood: A Southern Fantasy" (1994) and combined mainstream fiction with fantasy in "The Brothel of Rosenstrasse," which is set in the imaginary city of Mirenburg. MoorCock won the 1967 Nebula Award for Behold the Man and the 1979 World Fantasy Award for his novel, Gloriana. Michael Chabon was born in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1963. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in English writing at the University of California at Irvine in 1987. Chabon found success at the age of 24, when William Morrow publishing house offered him $155,000, a near-record sum, for the rights to his first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which was his thesis in graduate school. After The Mysteries of Pittsburgh became a national bestseller, he began writing a series of short stories about a little boy dealing with his parents' divorce. The stories, which in part appeared in The New Yorker and G.Q., were bound together in 1991 into a volume titled A Model World and Other Stories. His other works include Wonder Boys, The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, Telegraph Avenue, and Pop: Fatherhood in Pieces. In 2001 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He and Ayelet Waldman are co-editors of, Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation..

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