<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>The Elric books (ANY Moorcock, for that matter) is in a different time zone than Goodkind's trash. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I recommend all of the Eternal Champion books, actually. </div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Son of Witz <<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>I'm surprised how much of this I've read. I didn't think I've read that much SF.</div><div>So, for whatever reason I've been tempted by those Elric books recently, even though they look like trash.</div><div>Are they fun trash? Are they better than that Sword of Truth trash that was a bit of fun for a very short while…?</div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Son of Witz<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div>
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>> <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books">http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books</a></a><br>
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>> The Book of the New Sun clocked in at #87. Appalling original list, and<br>
>> terrible final results, but at the end of the day, maybe people will check<br>
>> out Wolfe after seeing his book listed here.<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br>
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