Michael Moorcock Science Fiction Fantasy Author

Moorcock's most popular works by far have been the "Elric of Melniboné" stories. In these books, Elric is an anti-hero.

Moorcock's work is frequently praised as being complex and multi layered. Central to many of his fantasy novels is the concept of an "Eternal Champion," who has potentially multiple identities across multiple dimensions of reality and alternative universes.
(Try getting your head round that one after reading a few of the eternal champion series. How Moorcock manages to keep track of all the different persona's is a mystery).

Michael Moorcock has collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind on many occasions: The Hawkwind track "The Black Corridor," for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time. Moorcock also penned the lyrics to "Sonic Attack.
Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels.

Elric of Melinbone Stealer of Souls and Stormbinger

Elric of Melnibone is the haunted, treacherous and doomed albino sorcerer-prince. An introspective weakling in thrall to his black-bladed, soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, he is yet a hero whose bloody adventures and wanderings through brooding, desolate lands leads inexorably to his decisive intervention in the war between the forces of Law and Chaos. This volume brings together The Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer, the first two published books of Elric's adventures, and confirms Michael Moorcock's place as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time. A great read.