Michael Moorcock Books in Order

Colonel Pyat embraces Fascism and enters Mussolini's circle before undertaking a secret mission to Munich. His boasts, inventions, and self-deceptions carry him into Nazi power struggles, exposing the gulf between his ambitions and the violence surrounding him.

Transported from Earth to ancient Mars, Kane becomes embroiled in the rivalries of its unfamiliar peoples. These three adventures combine strange creatures, political conflicts, and romance as he tries to survive and find his place on another world.

Former musician and photographer Dennis Dover and his cousin Rosie face a changing London. Their old acquaintance John Barbican Begg has become a powerful tycoon, forcing them to choose how to resist the destruction of the city they love.

Thief Max Silverskin has six days to uncover his heritage before a magical mark destroys his heart. Allied with Lady Rose Iron, he pursues secrets that could determine the future of their city and its hidden counterpart.

Persecuted by the Nazis over an ancestral black sword and the Grail, Ulric von Bek escapes into another world. There he encounters Elric, whose identity intertwines with his own as they confront forces threatening both realities.

Jerry Cornelius responds to the attacks of September 2001 and their aftermath in this satirical novella. Terrorism, climate change, and renewed fears of apocalypse shape a fragmented adventure that brings the recurring assassin into contemporary political crises.

Fossils discovered beneath London create a new trade in the city's heritage. This collection explores the consequences of selling the past while stories of overlooked people and places build a wider portrait of London's changing life.

Ulric von Bek is abducted while vacationing in Canada, sending Oona and Elric on separate journeys through a mythic America. Their quests converge around the Skrayling Tree, whose destruction would threaten every reality it contains.

Young Elric learns to defend Melniboné and negotiate with supernatural powers as he prepares to claim its throne. Protecting his homeland requires more than courage, forcing him to temper ambition with the wisdom needed to rule.

Young Oonagh von Bek is pursued into underground realms by dangerous strangers. Elric and Oona follow across worlds, seeking to protect her and thwart enemies whose plans extend beyond kidnapping to control of the entire multiverse.

Detective Seaton Begg and pathologist Taffy Sinclair investigate crimes across alternate realities for a secret government department. Political murders, kidnappings, and strange conspiracies lead them into worlds where familiar people and institutions have taken radically different forms.

Elric wanders in search of oblivion, sustained by magic and his vampiric sword Stormbringer. This collection brings together adventures, essays, and artwork exploring his struggle with a ruined past and the competing powers of Law and Chaos.

This collection gathers Elric's early adventures, including The Dreaming City and stories leading into Stormbringer. The troubled emperor and his soul-drinking sword face dangerous enemies and conflicting loyalties, accompanied by essays, letters, maps, and illustrations.

Elric and other incarnations of the Eternal Champion encounter threats across the multiverse in this collection. Adventures featuring Erekosë, Rackhir the Red Archer, and Count Renark von Bek accompany stories of the cursed swordsman's dangerous wanderings.

This collection pairs The Sailor on the Seas of Fate with the Duke Elric graphic novel script. Elric's adventures across unfamiliar worlds appear alongside shorter fiction, essays, and artwork that explore the character and his wider imaginative setting.

Elric ventures into dreams to seek a pearl in this collection's central novel, The Fortress of the Pearl. Graphic novel scripts and additional material explore his early life, with a fictional tribute by Neil Gaiman.

This collection ranges from a time traveler's encounter with biblical history to Jerry Cornelius's espionage and Elric's wanderings. Stories of alternate wars and troubled lives reveal how Moorcock uses speculative settings to examine violence, identity, and human choices.

The Doctor and Amy join enthusiasts reenacting ancient Earth sports for a competition at the edge of reality. As ships disappear and reality breaks down, they must discover who will kill to obtain the mysterious Arrow of Law.

Fifty years of Moorcock’s journalism bring together essays, editorials, reviews, introductions, and obituaries. This collection traces his literary and public concerns through a wide range of short nonfiction, including pieces presented here in their complete form.

Sojan and Princess Noothar travel through strange landscapes filled with unfamiliar peoples and monsters. Swordplay and airships drive their adventures as Moorcock revisits his early hero in a tale shaped by the dangers of an exotic world.

This Elric collection centers on The Revenge of the Rose and includes Black Petals, a Stormbringer screenplay, and nonfiction. The cursed swordsman's battles and wanderings sit alongside essays and a guide to the wider saga.

Moorcock collects essays, reviews, articles, and recollections spanning more than fifty years. Writing about literature, films, politics, and personal encounters, he revisits old friendships and longstanding disputes while bringing previously scattered and unpublished pieces into one volume.

Ulric von Bek fights to keep an occult sword from Hitler while Elric defends Stormbringer against Gaynor the Damned. Threatened worlds bring their linked destinies together, forcing both men to trust Oona and each other.

When spectral kidnappers seize Ulric von Bek in Canada, Oona follows into a mythic America. Her search becomes entangled with Elric's journey and a threat to the Skrayling Oak, the tree that holds every reality.

This collection centers on Elric, the sickly emperor of Melniboné, whose cousin Yyrkoon covets the throne. Their rivalry forces him to defend his rule while questioning his fading kingdom's values and the demands of his conscience.

Elric searches across worlds for Stormbringer while Oona pursues her endangered granddaughter Oonagh. Gaynor the Damned plans to use the child to reach Elric's son and seize a magical power capable of threatening the Cosmic Balance.

This volume pairs Breakfast in the Ruins, where Karl Glogauer appears as different people across history, with shorter works including Behold the Man. Its varied fiction explores human experience through shifts in time and identity.

These short stories follow Jerry Cornelius, an assassin, physicist and rock star, through a shifting version of the 1960s counterculture. Time travel and changing realities unsettle familiar events in adventures that mix science fiction with social satire.

This omnibus gathers The Sundered Worlds, The Fireclown and The Twilight Man. Its early multiverse adventures explore threatened societies and humanity's survival, including Renark von Bek's effort to save the human race from a collapsing universe.

A dying man recalls his youth with Alexandra in the luxurious brothel society of Mirenburg. Their pursuit of pleasure unfolds amid a fading aristocratic world, where the approach of war threatens everything they take for granted.

A fictional version of young Michael Moorcock meets Friar Isidore and discovers the hidden abbey of Alsacia. Encounters with legendary figures overlap his early writing career and personal life, drawing him between familiar London and a secret world.

This omnibus collects The Wrecks of Time, The Ice Schooner and The Black Corridor. Its adventures follow a dangerous voyage across a frozen world, a solitary journey toward the stars and threats to alternate versions of Earth.

Jerry Cornelius returns as an English assassin confronting the politics of the twenty-first century. This novella turns his attention to colonialism and despotism, using his ambiguous identity and violent activities to explore the persistence of imperial power.

Elric and Moonglum seek answers about Melniboné’s history and the origins of its dragons. Their travels lead toward the Citadel of Forgotten Myths, while the exiled emperor struggles against his own nature and Stormbringer’s relentless hunger.

A troubled writer trying to save his marriage in Paris is carried into another reality by literary adventurers. Their journey across Africa and unfamiliar worlds becomes a pursuit through the multiverse as an enemy follows them.

The Eternal Champion returns to London after lifetimes spent inhabiting different identities across the multiverse. Fantasy and autobiography converge as Michael Moorcock confronts the competing claims of family, imagined worlds, and the search for absolution.

Thirteen stories from New Worlds magazine bring together writers including Aldiss, Ballard, Disch, and Zelazny. Edited by Moorcock, this second anthology offers a range of speculative narratives from the magazine rather than a single continuing story.