I just re-joined my genre fiction BOTM club.  There’s typically a Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror selection.  Since I’m jumping back in at the end of the month I’m limited to the only title I can finish before the discussion.  First up it’s Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock and John Picacio. I believe it’s a fantasy selection as the Amazon description says: “When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique hero–weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himself–with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.” I’ve lined up the next 6 or 7 book selections that I’ll be reading first.  I think I’ll give myself a week or so apiece to make it through most of them.

I just re-joined my genre fiction BOTM club.  There’s typically a Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror selection.  Since I’m jumping back in at the end of the month I’m limited to the only title I can finish before the discussion.  First up it’s Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock and John Picacio. I believe it’s a fantasy selection as the Amazon description says:

“When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique hero–weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himself–with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.”

I’ve lined up the next 6 or 7 book selections that I’ll be reading first.  I think I’ll give myself a week or so apiece to make it through most of them.