![]() ![]() It was literally a time when the world felt open and unscripted to me, as if anything were possible, and my mind openly embraced the Elric novels. This was a time when I was standing in line to see The Empire Strikes Back, discovering Dungeons and Dragons, and playing my Intellivision game console. Both books functioned well as stand-alone stories, and both immediately captured my imagination. It was those great Michael Whelan covers that sucked me in. My library had the fourth and fifth books in the series: The Vanishing Tower, with a giant bug on the cover, and Bane of the Black Sword, with a cool-looking, giant lich on the cover. Classic Review is a feature where I pull a book that is over 20 years old from my collection and re-read it, then review it…įormat: paperback, first Daw printing, 1976Īs I stated in my review of Nine Princes in Amber, the other major influence on my reading during my teen years was Moorcock’s Elric series. ![]()
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