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Article Elric of Melniboné, 1972, Michael Moorcock Elric of Melniboné, 1972, Michael Moorcock Yesterday
a recording of Hari Seldon a recording of Hari Seldon Article 20d ago Mazirian the Magician Mazirian the Magician Article 20d ago Lankhmar There was always an interest in those sinister harmonies and dark beauties in fantasy, and in sword and sorcery in particular. "Mazirian the Magician" was published in 1950, and while there are an awful lot of differences between Vance's Dying Earth and the setting for the Elric stories, they're similarly baroque and amoral places, and the same could be said of Lankhmar, or the Hyborian Age of Conan. But this is something newer. Image 20d ago Tanith Lee As is generally the case when I talk about things like this, I'm sure there are other earlier examples than the ones I'm familiar with--it's very rare that the first blossoming of something is the one that breaks through into the mainstream. And I'm equally sure that I'm not interested in trying to track those examples down, or in trying to litigate whether the works that followed Elric of Melniboné were directly influenced by Moorcock, or were influenced by the same things that influenced Moorcock. Whether or not Tanith Lee had ever read any of the Elric stories, her major works came later than some of the Elric stories, and were continuing in the same vein, at least in this regard. There's Article 20d ago Amalric the Mangod Some of which might have to do with the barbarian heroes who filled the space between the original Conan stories and Elric; Amalric the Mangod and Kothar the Barbarian or Van of the Glades and so on, but some of those opposites are too specific to have been inspired by a general type of hero: Conan goes from being a wandering adventurer to a king, thanks to his ambition and competitiveness, Elric goes from being a king to being a wandering adventurer thanks to his extreme lack of ambition and inability to engage in even relatively trivial efforts to keep from being deposed, Conan is described as being 'dark', while Elric's coloration ranges from 'milk-white' to 'bleached skull," and so on an Article 20d ago rebellious gorilla butler rebellious gorilla butler Article 20d ago Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons Core Rulebooks, TSR, 1989 February 28 Article February 28 Father of the Stars, Frederik Pohl, 1964 Father of the Stars, Frederik Pohl, 1964 May 4 Article May 4 With the Night Mail "With the Night Mail," Rudyard Kipling, 1905 April 1 Article April 1 A Martian Odyssey, There's science fiction where the point is the scientific speculation. You have stories like "A Martian Odyssey," and so on, where the interest is what life would be like on Mars, or "A Pail of Air," which imagines a frozen world, and then goes on to imagine what living in that world would be like--they start from the premise, and without the premise, there isn't a story. Which is part of what people are looking for when they look at science fiction--to see a story that's based on a bit of speculation about the future, or about the universe. Image 20d ago A Pail of Air, There's science fiction where the point is the scientific speculation. You have stories like "A Martian Odyssey," and so on, where the interest is what life would be like on Mars, or "A Pail of Air," which imagines a frozen world, and then goes on to imagine what living in that world would be like--they start from the premise, and without the premise, there isn't a story. Which is part of what people are looking for when they look at science fiction--to see a story that's based on a bit of speculation about the future, or about the universe. Article 20d ago