![]() ![]() After a series of troubling dreams, Daker finds himself pulled into a different world, where he is informed by King Rigenos that he is Erekosë, the Eternal Champion of Humanity, and must help destroy the evil Eldren who threaten their existence. The series begins with John Daker, a married man with a child, who lives in London, although his wife and child are forgotten throughout the books. It was only much later that I came across the graphic novel, The Swords of Hell, The Flowers of Heaven, written by Howard Chaykin, which is set between Phoenix in Obsidian and The Dragon in the Sword. I then had to wait several years for the publication of The Dragon in the Sword, which linked Erekosë with Moorcock’s von Bek family. At the time, I had some difficulty tracking down the second novel, The Silver Warriors (original title Phoenix in Obsidian), which I eventually did at a used bookstore in New Haven, Connecticut. When I first read it in the early 1980s it became one of my favorites of Moorcock’s novels. I was first introduced to the character when I came across him in those interpolated adventures and I sought out his own novel, The Eternal Champion. Michael Moorcock’s Erekosë saga is contained in three novels, and graphic novel, and a couple of short stories which were incorporated into his novels of Elric, Corum, and Hawkmoon. The Eternal Champion, Cover by Frank Frazetta ![]()
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