Ballard, the darling of ‘experimental’ literary theorists-called Stormbringer “ work of powerful and sustained imagination which confirms Michael Moorcock’s position as the most important successor to Mervyn Peake and Wyndham Lewis… a world as fantastic as those of Bosch and Breughel…vast, tragic symbols… metaphysical quest.” Not bad for a sword-and-sorcery novel. The sudden flash of discovery in the mid-1960s was largely created by the fact that there really was comparatively little of that kind of fiction available, but it was quite clear to even the most naïve reader that Moorcock was picking up a genre and trying to pull it into the modern world. It must be difficult for contemporary readers-even those who are fans of the work-to get their heads around what reading Michael Moorcock’s “Elric” series in the 1960s was like.
James Cawthorn: The Stormbringer Sessions: Sketches for a Graphic Novel compiled by John Davey
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