The Sailor On The Seas of Fate by Michael…

The Sailor On The Seas of Fate (edition 1955)

by Michael Moorcock (Author)

Series: Elric (novel 3), The Eternal Champion (Elric novel 3)

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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML: ... and leaving his cousin Yyrkoon sitting as regent upon the Ruby Throne of Melnibone, leaving his cousin Cymoril weeping for him and despairing of his ever returning, Elric sailed from Imrryr, the Dreaming City, and went to seek an unknown goal in the world of the Young Kingdoms where Melniboneans were at best, disliked. Included is a dramatic introduction read by Michael Moorcock over 11 mins in length. .… (more)

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Better than the first book. This audio version was excellent with the moody background music and proper pacing by the reader. (

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wvlibrarydude | Jan 14, 2024 |

I listened to the audiobook and I found the background music and noises very distracting. The story itself was great and I will need to go back at a later date and read the story in ebook or paperbook format so I can focus 100% on the story. (

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Shauna_Morrison | Jul 9, 2023 |

Oh Elric, you're such a passive knob. I actually like Moorcock's style, I just find the albino such bore compared to nearly every other character in the story. Honestly, Yrkoon seems so much more engaging in comparison. :) (

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Kavinay | Jan 2, 2023 |

Of the three books that make up volume two of the Elric saga my favorite's were book one and three, two has a good a story but book one ties ties together protagonists of Moorcock's multiverse. While book three sets up the doom that Elric has inadvertently called up his plane of existence as he strives to help another has he doomed his whole world. (

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kevn57 | Dec 8, 2021 |

The second in the Elric chronicles, this one is essentially three novella-length adventures, all linked to each other.

While some of the tropes continue (women in need of saving, etc.), the writing seems to have matured a touch. It's still very much the trippy Michael Moorcock you've come to know and love, though.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Moorcock, Michael	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Brunner, Frank	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gould, Robert	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Grant, Melvyn	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Persson, Claes	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Sabaté, Hernán	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Whelan, Michael	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Woodroffe, Patrick	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Michael Moorcock Library - Elric Vol. 2: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Roy Thomas

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World Fantasy Award (Nominee – Novel – 1977)

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The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

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Auf der See des Schicksals

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1976-03

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For Bill Butler, Mike and Tony, and all at Unicorn Books, Wales.

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It was as if the man stood in a vast cavern whose walls and roof were comprised of gloomy, unstable colors which would occasionally break and admit rays of light from the moon.

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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

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This, the novel "The Sailor on the Seas of Fate", should NOT be combined with the 2010s Gollancz omnibus "Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate", as the latter includes the novel and also some novellas which this does not.

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... and leaving his cousin Yyrkoon sitting as regent upon the Ruby Throne of Melnibone, leaving his cousin Cymoril weeping for him and despairing of his ever returning, Elric sailed from Imrryr, the Dreaming City, and went to seek an unknown goal in the world of the Young Kingdoms where Melniboneans were at best, disliked.

Included is a dramatic introduction read by Michael Moorcock over 11 mins in length.

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