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La isla-reino de Melniboné dominó durante diez mil años todo el mundo, pero hace ya quinientos que perdió su poder y poco a poco se ha ido encerrando en sí misma, celosa de sus tradiciones y su glorioso pasado, esperando el momento oportuno para recuperar el prestigio perdido Son una raza de antiguos y orgullosos guerreros que tiempo atrás pactaron con los Señores del Caos, quienes les dieron el poder suficiente para dominar el mundo Sin embargo, ahora deben vivir del comercio, permanentemente alerta ante el peligro de invasión de los Reinos jóvenes. Elric de Melniboné es el último descendiente de los antiguos reyes y heredero legítimo del Trono de Rubí. Pero su salud quebradiza desde su nacimiento y su carácter introvertido y pacífico hacen que muchas voces no le consideren digno de ser el emperador que debe devolver al reino el poder de antaño. Y ésta es la historia de cómo Elric de Melniboné, el último de los emperadores de una raza de guerreros servidores de los Señores del Caos y dueños del secreto de los Dragones, partió a recorrer el mundo para aprender y comprender; y de cómo se convirtió en un vagabundo desesperado, caminante de mil planos del Multiverso y portador de la espada Tormentosa, temido por todos aquellos que llegaron a conocerle y más aún por aquellos que tan sólo conocieron su leyenda.
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Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine. During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his Second Ether fiction.
