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[Lane Haygood]

The Elric books (ANY Moorcock, for that matter) is in a different time zone than Goodkind's trash. 

Moorcock was a very subversive counterculture figure in the 60s and 70s and his books reflect it. Elric was written as the Anti-Conan, a sickly intellectual who concerns himself too much with ethics and turns to violence and demonology only as a last resort. But they are adventure tales in the grand S&S fashion. Still, they defined the dark heroic fantasy genre.

I recommend all of the Eternal Champion books, actually. 

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On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:

> I'm surprised how much of this I've read. I didn't think I've read that much SF.
> So, for whatever reason I've been tempted by those Elric books recently, even though they look like trash.
> Are they fun trash?  Are they better than that Sword of Truth trash that was a bit of fun for a very short while…?
> They were apparently a big influence on a writer I've begun collaborating with on a graphic novel. I feel like I should know the stuff, maybe if only to know if he's ripping something off from Elric, hehehe.  
> 
> 
> Son of Witz
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The Book of the New Sun clocked in at #87.  Appalling original list, and
>>>> >> terrible final results, but at the end of the day, maybe people will check
>>>> >> out Wolfe after seeing his book listed here.
> 
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