Re: SF Writers' Work You Find Unreadable

On Feb 29, 2:48 pm, d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David DeLaney) wrote:

A decade or two later he revisited Elric some, and wrote a trilogy ^The
Fortress of the Pearl, ^The Revenge of the Rose, ^The Dreamthief's Daughter,
and also a crossover Elric at the End of Time. (However, 'crossover'
constitutes about a third of the original series anyway, since the Eternal
Champion had to keep summoning other versions of himself every so often through
convoluted and arcane means to deal with various semi-universal catastrophes.)

Actually, there are three periods:
- The early stuff. Elric's bleeding adolescent angst all over the
pages. Great stuff if you're fifteen.
- The midperiod: "Elric of Melnibone", "Sleeping Sorceress", "Sailor
on the Seas of Fate". Eternal Champion crossovers abound. Far lesser
in quality; read like he was writing them to pay New Worlds' bills.
- The later novels: "Dreamthief's Daughter", etc. The pulp market is
abandoned for a more ornate style. I haven't been able to get through
them and, honestly, have other stuff to read first.


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