Michael Moorcock Books in Order

Humanity has reached the stars, but the universe itself now threatens to collapse. Count Renark von Bek and his companions investigate a mysterious galaxy outside ordinary space and time, seeking a means of survival whose consequences may be equally dangerous.

Michael Kane and his blue giant companion Hool Haji cross ancient Mars in search of a cure for the Green Death. The disease destroys minds as well as bodies, drawing them toward abandoned cities and the remnants of a lost civilization.

Michael Kane returns to ancient Mars and meets Hool Haji, a blue giant trying to reclaim his people's realm from oppressive rulers. Helping him brings Kane into dangerous ruins and encounters with creatures shaped by the planet's forgotten technology.

A charismatic figure called the Fireclown promises humanity salvation and gains influential followers. Alain becomes caught between the mysterious newcomer and rival political leaders, forcing him to decide whom to trust as Earth's future and his own past grow uncertain.

Professor Faustaff investigates fifteen alternate Earths whose inhabitants are threatened by mysterious raids eroding their worlds. Discovering how these planets were created becomes essential to protecting millions of people and possibly preventing the destruction of civilization throughout the universe.

Physicist Michael Kane's matter-transmission experiment sends him to Mars in the distant past. Meeting Princess Shizala draws him into her people's struggle against the Argzoon, forcing an Earth scientist to become a warrior in an unfamiliar civilization.

The title story follows Seward, whose self-made drug pulls him into a distorted world inhabited by threatening figures. His craving repeatedly prevents escape, while the accompanying stories explore other journeys through space, time, and the uncertainties of the mind.

After aliens halt Earth's rotation, humanity survives in separate regions of darkness, daylight, and twilight. When a mysterious aftereffect leaves people unable to reproduce, Clovis Becker searches for an answer before the remaining civilization faces extinction on its altered world.

Moorcock selects science fiction stories originally published in New Worlds magazine, including work by Ballard, Disch, Zelazny, Aldiss, and Brunner. The anthology brings together distinct voices in speculative fiction within a collection shaped by his editorial judgment.

Captured by the Dark Empire of Granbretan, Dorian Hawkmoon is implanted with a jewel that lets his enemies control him. Sent to infiltrate the rebellious Kamarg, he must find a way to resist becoming the instrument of its destruction.

Eleven stories selected from New Worlds magazine showcase writers including Pamela Zoline, James Sallis, Langdon Jones, and Keith Roberts. Moorcock’s third anthology gathers different approaches to science fiction in a collection of independent speculative narratives.

Scientist, musician, and assassin Jerry Cornelius joins the ruthless Miss Brunner in pursuit of a revolutionary code. Their mission to create an ultimate human being unfolds amid kidnapping and violence, where scientific ambition and personal vendettas become difficult to separate.

Hawkmoon journeys toward the Kamarg, seeking reunion with his friends and Yisselda as the Dark Empire continues its expansion. Discovering a city's power to escape ordinary space offers hope, but rescuing Yisselda requires confronting the Mad God and his amulet.

Hawkmoon's campaign against Granbretan leads him to a ring capable of carrying its wearer through time. Traveling to a future New Orleans brings him into conflict with pirate lords who possess a sword that could help defeat the Dark Empire.

Jerry Cornelius returns to a parallel London and pursues Bishop Beesley, seeking a device that can manipulate the cosmos. War and corruption spread across Europe, while Jerry's search unfolds through shifting scenes of violence, politics, and unstable reality.

Karl Glogauer travels to Palestine in the year 29, hoping to encounter Jesus and understand the origins of Christianity. What he discovers challenges his beliefs and forces him to consider his own role in the history he expected merely to witness.

Moorcock selects another group of science fiction stories from New Worlds magazine. This fifth anthology brings together different writers and approaches to speculative fiction, presenting a collection of independent narratives drawn from the magazine’s published work.

Ryan flees a collapsing Earth with his family in suspended animation, hoping to build a better society on another planet. Years into the voyage, isolation begins undermining his sanity, threatening the orderly future he believes he can create.

Colonel Jerry Cornelius explores space with his wife Cathy and Professor Marek, searching for a new home for Earth's starving population. An alien world's secrets may offer salvation, but disappearing companions and madness turn the expedition into an increasingly desperate mission.

Captain Arflane commands the Ice Spirit across a future Earth buried beneath frozen seas. Seeking the legendary riches of ancient New York, he leads his crew into an expedition that tests their survival and their understanding of the world they inhabit.

Dorian Hawkmoon must find the Runestaff before he can defeat Granbretan and protect Yisselda from Baron Meliadus. The quest takes him through strange lands and dangers, tying his personal struggle to the survival of a world threatened by empire.

This collection explores uncertain journeys through time, dreams, and altered reality. Its opening stories follow people leaving a ruined physical world for a realm of time, while other tales question perception through strange encounters and ambiguous experiences.

John Daker is summoned away from the woman he loves and takes another identity, Urlik Skarsol, Prince of the Southern Ice. Compelled to fight tyranny again, he must wield the Black Sword while seeking a return to peace and Ermizhad.

Ex-convict Jerry Cornell reluctantly works for British Intelligence when stolen secrets are accidentally handed to a jewel thief at the Tower of London. The mistake triggers a chaotic pursuit involving rival agents and an unlikely assortment of spies and opportunists.

John Daker answers mysterious calls and arrives in another world as the warrior Erekosë. Recruited to defend humanity against the Eldren, he begins questioning his allies' conduct, making loyalty more difficult than the straightforward battle he was promised.

Four fantasy tales bring together Elric, other warriors, and the refuge of Tanelorn, where an army of beggars confronts danger. Across the collection, strange designs and supernatural conflicts place human reason between the competing demands of Order and Chaos.

Elric and Moonglum pursue the sorcerer Theleb K'aarna through the dangerous Young Kingdoms. Finding their enemy requires confronting supernatural threats and an alliance with Myshella, Empress of the Dawn, whose mysterious powers complicate Elric's struggle against the forces surrounding him.

Karl Glogauer imagines alternate lives against a succession of historical crises, moving from childhood toward increasingly disturbing experiences. These shifting versions of one man confront political violence and human cruelty, asking how individuals participate in the suffering of their own times.

Corum travels with Rhalina and Jhary-a-Conel to confront Mabelode, the Chaos lord whose influence has driven their world into war. Joining Elric and Erekosë offers help, but rescuing Rhalina and facing his family's killer make the struggle deeply personal.

After the destruction of his family and people, Prince Corum seeks revenge against the powers behind their killers. A sorcerer offers supernatural replacements for his mutilated hand and eye, but accepting them brings dangerous obligations in a war between Law and Chaos.

This anthology brings together stories and nonfiction by Moorcock and other writers featuring Jerry Cornelius and related characters. Its linked contributions explore the assassin's changing worlds and identities, expanding a shared fictional setting through several different voices and approaches.

Corum's confrontation with Chaos draws the anger of Xiombarg, Queen of the Swords, threatening him and Rhalina with new enemies. Reaching the legendary City of the Pyramid offers hope, but the journey crosses unfamiliar planes filled with dangerous sorcery and creatures.

Captain Oswald Bastable is transported from 1902 to an alternate 1973, where airships support apparently peaceful empires. Encountering the people beneath that order challenges his imperial ideals, drawing him toward anarchists and a conflict hidden behind the world's prosperous appearance.

At the end of the universe, Jherek Carnelian chooses to fall in love with displaced Victorian Amelia Underwood. When she returns to her own time, he follows her to London, where the conventions of her society bewilder his amoral sensibilities.

This omnibus follows Prince Corum from the slaughter of his people into a struggle against the Lords of Chaos. The Knight, Queen, and King of the Swords trace his search for vengeance, companionship, and freedom from powers manipulating entire worlds.

Elric rules the declining empire of Melniboné, troubled by his people's cruelty and his own physical weakness. His cousin Yyrkoon challenges his authority, drawing the emperor into a struggle where sorcery, ambition, and a powerful black sword threaten his independence.

Jerry Cornelius and familiar companions move through a fractured portrait of English society, confronting class, empire, and revolution. Shifting scenes and identities connect private lives with political violence, questioning the assumptions that sustain institutions and the responsibilities of those living within them.

Dorian Hawkmoon and Yisselda have rebuilt the Kamarg when the apparently dead Count Brass returns. Believing Hawkmoon caused his death, the count threatens their settled life, drawing the former allies into a mystery that unsettles the history they remember.

Elric, an ailing emperor of a decaying realm, depends on a deadly black sword for strength. Moorcock's text and Philippe Druillet's illustrations portray a sorcerer whose human attachments are threatened by the powers of Chaos.

Corum answers dreamlike calls from a future people persecuted by the giant Cold Folk. Helping them requires taming a powerful black bull, which sends him toward the dangerous island of Hy-Breasail in search of a magical spear capable of controlling it.

Hawkmoon returns to a version of his world where Count Brass survived, but Yisselda and their children are absent. Desperate to recover the family he remembers, he reconstructs the Battle of Londra and searches for another possible course of events.

Elric and Moonglum join a fortune-hunter seeking the legendary Jade Man's Eyes in the lost ancestral city of the Melnibonéans. Their expedition draws them into dangerous secrets about Elric's people and the strange beings connected with their ancient homeland.

The Cold Folk threaten the Mabden lands, but their High King Amergin is trapped by dark magic and cannot unite his people. Corum seeks the Golden Oak and Silver Ram, legendary talismans that may restore the king's power before the invaders prevail.

Jherek Carnelian finds a way back to nineteenth-century London, determined to pursue Amelia Underwood. But a visitor from the far future has little grasp of Victorian expectations, and his romantic search brings increasingly troublesome clashes between cultures.

Time traveler Oswald Bastable arrives in an alternate 1904 devastated by advanced warfare and biological weapons. As a powerful African American conqueror attempts to impose a new order, Bastable confronts a world whose history challenges his imperial assumptions.

Corum must wield a magical sword and ride a formidable stallion as the Gods of Limbo threaten his world with Chaos. His quest draws him through treachery and dangerous battles, with the fate of the Earth at stake.

Dorian Hawkmoon has reunited with Yisselda, but their children remain missing. His determination to restore his family sends him on another journey through the multiverse, where finding the legendary city of Tanelorn may offer his only hope.

At the End of Time, immortal inhabitants invent elaborate diversions while visitors disrupt their careless pleasures. These linked tales follow outlandish romances and encounters in a world where style matters more than morality, even as the universe approaches collapse.

These stories explore sacrifice and obsession across strange worlds and historical settings. A traveler seeks the truth about Jesus, a warrior becomes entangled in supernatural conflict, and a roadie's encounter with a resurrected musician unsettles ordinary reality.

Lovers Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius leave their peaceful life together to seek adventure. Their separate journeys lead Una into revolutionary wars and Catherine into troubling relationships, testing their identities and the possibilities of returning to one another.

Jherek Carnelian and Amelia Underwood return from the Devonian period to find the End of Time under attack. Their difficult romance unfolds amid the threat of extinction, questions about Jherek's past, and the strange workings of time itself.

Assassin, musician, scientist, and would-be savior Jerry Cornelius moves through shifting realities and political disasters in these stories. His changing roles turn familiar events into strange adventures, where identity and responsibility become difficult to hold onto.

Elric boards a mysterious ship that travels between worlds and across time. Joining three other warriors chosen for a desperate mission, he confronts alien sorcerers threatening their realities and discovers troubling connections between his fate and theirs.

In a devastated world, the Hawklords use music as both protection and a weapon against destructive forces. Inspired by Hawkwind's stage personas, their struggle links rock performance with a battle to keep catastrophe from overwhelming the survivors.

This anthology gathers Victorian and Edwardian tales imagining invasions, strange inventions, and threats to familiar life. Different writers explore the fears beneath confidence in Britain's future, bringing military danger and speculative possibilities into the worlds of their own times.

Early adventures of Sojan the Swordsman share this collection with other fiction and essays about Moorcock's fantasy creations. Swordplay, strange landscapes, and dangerous encounters introduce an early hero while the accompanying pieces explore the author's developing imaginative worlds.

When beings of Chaos abduct Elric's wife, he takes up the soul-drinking sword Stormbringer again. His effort to save her draws him into a widening struggle between supernatural powers, where personal love and the world's future become inseparable.

Elric and Moonglum face sorcery, hostile kingdoms, and invading armies in these connected adventures. Threats to Tanelorn and the people Elric cares about challenge his dependence on Stormbringer, the powerful sword whose appetites complicate every attempt at protection.

Mavis Ming lives among the decadent immortals at the End of Time, hoping for attention and affection. The arrival of the self-proclaimed savior Emmanuel Bloom brings unwanted pursuit and new opportunities for the scheming Doctor Volospion.

Elric wanders the Young Kingdoms, estranged from his people and bound to the soul-drinking sword Stormbringer. His search for purpose draws him into sorcery and conflict, while the weapon that sustains him threatens everyone caught in his path.

Prince Corum enters an age threatened by the winter-bearing Fhoi Myore, helping human communities resist supernatural invaders. These collected adventures follow his search for powerful talismans as he confronts the burden of becoming their champion.

Queen Gloriana rules the vast empire of Albion from a palace filled with intrigue and private corruption. Captain Quire's schemes challenge her authority, forcing the dissatisfied ruler to navigate a court whose pleasures conceal threats to her kingdom.

Jerry Cornelius moves through changing identities in a devastated Europe of fragmented cities and dwindling possibilities. As London loses its balance, his longing for Catherine persists amid the disorder, raising questions about whether personal connection can survive collapse.

This collection ranges across distant history, contemporary life, and imagined futures, bringing together heroes facing hostile worlds and uncertain destinies. Fantasy adventures and stranger encounters explore the conflicts between individual choices and forces that threaten to overwhelm them.

Jephraim Tallow becomes obsessed with a mysterious golden barge and follows it down a river. Convinced that boarding it will reveal the meaning of his existence, he risks losing sight of the people and possibilities along the way.

Erekosë takes on the identity of Clen, a noble in the Dream Marches, where prosperous Heaven borders impoverished Hell. Encounters with strange Angels and rival peoples challenge the apparent divisions between good and evil in this graphic adventure.

A Russian agent travels through an alternate Third World War in which the Soviet Union and United States fight as allies. These linked accounts and additional stories examine survival, political absurdity, and human experience amid a sprawling catastrophic conflict.

Jerry Cornelius and the Sex Pistols bring disruptive energy to Britain in this satirical novel. Punk performance and political upheaval collide as rival ideas of anarchy expose the distance between rebellion's promises and the behavior of its participants.

Maxim Pyat recounts his youth amid Russia's revolution and civil war, presenting himself as an exceptional engineer and adventurer. His grand ambitions and bitter prejudices make his account unreliable as he maneuvers through a society coming apart.

Elric's arrival among the immortals at the End of Time turns his dangerous adventures into material for their amusement. The title tale joins other fiction and commentary in a collection connecting Moorcock's fantasy worlds with his early creations.

Jerry Cornelius and familiar companions move through revolution, decaying cities, and shifting roles as their world grows colder. This fragmented romance explores the search for identity when political upheaval and personal alienation leave even experienced time operatives without control.

Oswald Bastable reaches an alternate 1941 where Britain and Germany are allies and Japanese imperialism threatens the world. Joining Russia's airship navy draws him into rebellion, where the man called the Steel Tsar becomes a formidable enemy.

Mercenary Ulrich von Bek deserts the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and finds refuge in a mysterious castle. There, Lucifer offers him a chance to save his soul by searching for the Cure for the World's Pain.

An aging Rickhardt von Bek recalls taking refuge in a brothel with a young lover during a nineteenth-century siege. His account entangles desire, confinement, and war, leaving the past filtered through the unreliable memories of a dying man.

Moorcock selects fiction from New Worlds, the magazine associated with experimental science fiction and the New Wave. These stories explore unusual futures and contemporary anxieties, showing writers testing narrative boundaries and the relationship between imagined worlds and everyday life.

Secret agent Jerry Cornell prefers assignments that resolve themselves while he pursues pleasure instead of work. Accidentally taking the case code-named Devil Rider upsets that comfortable routine, drawing an unwilling operative into complications he would rather avoid.

After fleeing revolutionary Russia, self-proclaimed genius Maxim Pyat pursues inventions and recognition across Europe and America. His schemes, affairs, addiction, and racist convictions shape an unreliable account of survival in a world whose upheavals feed his ambitions.

A Jerry Cornelius novella anchors this mixture of fiction and political essays, alongside a story about a heroin addict's paranoid dreamworld. The pieces connect personal delusion, social collapse, censorship, and the ideological assumptions underlying science fiction and fantasy.

Moorcock examines what he sees as the erosion of democracy in Britain, questioning retreats from liberalism and internationalism. This political pamphlet argues for personal freedom while emphasizing the responsibilities that come with accepting it in public and private life.

Letters to J. G. Ballard recount Moorcock's experiences in Los Angeles while working in the film business. Observations of Hollywood, money, and American life turn a screenwriting opportunity into an account of a writer navigating unfamiliar expectations.

Disillusioned with the French Revolution, Manfred von Bek flees to Mirenburg and joins an unusual company of travelers. Their search for the Holy Grail leads toward the mystical Mittelmarch, where political disappointment gives way to stranger questions of salvation.

John Daker, the Eternal Champion, searches the multiverse for his lost love Ermizhad and release from endless warfare. A dark ship carries him toward another dangerous struggle, testing his attempt to reclaim a life from Fate's demands.

Moorcock studies epic fantasy from medieval romances through Tolkien and later writers, examining the genre's traditions and possibilities. His critical discussion considers how imagined worlds work and what literary choices distinguish powerful fantasy from familiar formulas.

James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock survey one hundred fantasy books through short critical essays. Ranging from Gulliver's Travels to more recent novels, the guide helps readers explore the genre's history and decide what to read next.

Three Londoners receiving psychiatric care believe they hear voices from the city's past. A music hall performer, a withdrawn writer, and a woman emerging from a coma experience London's changes from the Blitz through the 1980s.

This collection combines short fiction with essays about writers, London, and political questions. Alongside the title novella and other stories, Moorcock considers the city's changing character and challenges assumptions about culture, feminism, and public life.

Poisoned and blackmailed in a desert city, Elric must retrieve a pearl to obtain an antidote. The jewel exists inside a sleeping girl's mind, forcing him to enter a dream world filled with unfamiliar dangers.

Four speculative adventures explore the search for better worlds. Travelers cross frozen oceans, flee a ruined Earth, enter unstable timestreams, and investigate distant suns, finding that their hopes for refuge bring unexpected dangers and personal fears.

Returning to the ruins of his homeland, Elric hears his dead father's tormented voice. Saving that soul means confronting the powers of Hell and trusting the mysterious Rose, whose involvement draws him into a dangerous quest.

Three science fiction novels explore threatened worlds: unstable versions of Earth, a society unsettled by the Fireclown, and a planet that no longer rotates. Their inhabitants face collapsing certainties about survival, political authority, and death.

In extended interviews with Colin Greenland, Michael Moorcock discusses how he builds stories and works across genres. Their conversations examine literary influences, narrative structure, and practical writing techniques, offering readers a close look at his creative process.

Colonel Pyat recounts his travels from New York and Hollywood to Cairo and Marrakech. His inventions, addictions, and elaborate self-deceptions propel him through crises while his unreliable account exposes the prejudices and betrayals shaping his century.

Two pairs of lovers are caught between a lawless world of gamblers and riverboat captains and the parallel reality of the Second Ether. As pockets of chaos open around them, their relationships become entangled with cosmic disorder.

Seven linked stories follow the von Bek family's search for meaning amid a troubled twentieth century. Characters turn to music, drugs, belief, and political action, confronting the limits of each response to personal loss and collective violence.

These interconnected stories range across the multiverse, following gamblers, pirates, detectives, and familiar figures including Elric and Jerry Cornelius. Their encounters with strange gods, corruption, and shifting realities connect individual adventures to the world of the Second Ether.

This anthology brings together original stories set in the Eternal Champion's multiverse. Across alternate worlds and eras, the struggle between Law and Chaos forces the Champion's many incarnations into conflicts over the fundamental shape of existence.

Margaret Rose Moorcock moves through alternate worlds and histories as a struggle between the angels of Chaos and Order shapes existence. Her journey reaches the Second Ether, where events across different realities become part of a larger conflict.

Western adventures and nonfiction pieces explore Moorcock's fascination with the American West. Stories involving the Masked Buckaroo, Sherlock Holmes, and the Eternal Champion sit alongside reflections on Western films and writing, bringing familiar characters into unexpected settings.

This trilogy follows British officer Oswald Bastable through alternate twentieth centuries. Encountering airship empires, revolutionary movements, and unfamiliar wars, he must question his imperial loyalties while searching for a way through the shifting currents of time.