To Rescue Tanelorn (55 page)

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

M
ICHAEL
W
M
. K
ALUTA
studied art at the Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University). Arriving in New York in 1969, he was hired by DC Comics and eventually assigned to what is now a classic stint: the creation of
The Shadow
comic book. In the mid-seventies he, Jeffrey Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson formed The Studio; he later collaborated with Elaine Lee in adapting her play
Starstruck
to comics. He is inspired by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Al Williamson.

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ORNELIUS
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UARTET

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ETWEEN THE
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ARS
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—
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—
Los Angeles Daily News,
on
The Fortress of the Pearl

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—
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—
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—T
AD
W
ILLIAMS

“A work of powerful and sustained imagination…The vast, tragic symbols by which Mr. Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author’s remarkable talents.”

—J. G. B
ALLARD
, author of
Crash

“A giant of fantasy.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

“A superb writer.”

—
Locus

Elric To Rescue Tanelorn
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A Del Rey Books Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2008 by Michael Moorcock and Linda Moorcock

Foreword copyright © 2008 by Walter Mosley

Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Michael Wm. Kaluta

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

D
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R
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The stories contained in this work originally appeared in various science fiction magazines and books, as noted on the acknowledgments section.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moorcock, Michael.

Elric: to rescue Tanelorn / Michael Moorcock;

illustrated throughout by Michael Wm. Kalut.

p. cm.—(Chronicles of the last emperor of Melniboné)

PR6063.O59E46 2008

823'.914—dc22

2008005552

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