Born in the UK, he now lives in the United States. The film adaptation of his short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” and the second season of the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated television adaptation of his novel American Gods will be released in 2018. His fiction has received Newbery, Carnegie, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Eisner awards. His titles include Norse Mythology, The Graveyard Book, Coraline, The View from the Cheap Seats, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neverwhere, and the Sandman series of graphic novels, among other works. Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of books, graphic novels, short stories, and films for all ages. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W.

He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. To put it in Dragon Ball Z terms, if Aragorn is Goku, Elric is Vegeta.Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Elric is truly an all-time great fantasy creation and serves as a truly stellar embodiment of the antihero archetype in the genre. He is, in the words of Moorcock himself, a doomed hero.

In order to keep Elric alive and thriving, Stormbringer must feed on the souls of men - and takes a toll on Elric’s the longer he wields it. An accomplished sorcerer, Elric is physically frail and sustains himself on herbs and drugs, though he gains most of his strength from his fearsome sword Stormbringer.īut there’s a pretty major catch to wielding this awesome blade. The story, which spans books, short stories, graphic novels, and music, follows the journey of Elric, the albino emperor of Melnibone and its last survivor. Fischer have acquired the rights to writer Michael Moorcock’s seminal fantasy-horror masterpiece The Elric Saga. Today, it was announced that a dark horse has entered the peak TV arena, and it’ll be one to keep an eye out for as the quest to find the next Thrones continues. From HBO’s recent adaptation of His Dark Materials to Amazon’s upcoming billion-dollar Lord of the Rings show, the race is fully underway. Game of Thrones left a major gap in the television landscape and networks are scrambling left and right to figure out how they can fill it.

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