The Dreamthief's Daughter
core novel 2001 The Eternal Champion
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.73 (1,242 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780684861319 |
| Internal chronology | 10 |
Synopsis
The Dreamthief's Daughter shifts the Elric saga into the years between the two World Wars, centering on Ulric von Bek, an albino descendant of Elric's line living a quiet life in Germany. His peace ends when his cousin Gaynor von Minct arrives seeking family heirlooms he believes Ulric holds, a pursuit that grows more dangerous as Nazism rises around them and eventually sees Ulric imprisoned in a concentration camp, forced to confront what he is willing to do, and become, to survive. His path crosses with Oona, the daughter of a dreamthief and a woman bound to Elric's own fate across the multiverse, whose involvement draws Ulric's personal ordeal into a far larger struggle between good and evil that echoes, but is not identical to, the old war between Law and Chaos.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Eternal Champion
- Series: The Elric Saga core; position 10 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael Moorcock
Notes
- From the series record (The Elric Saga): 12 novels in internal chronological order (per Saga Press's current standard edition), spanning 1965-2022 in publication. At least 4 of these are fix-ups of originally separate 1961-64 magazine novelettes (The Weird of the White Wolf, The Bane of the Black Sword, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and, hybrid, Stormbringer); the remainder are original novels. The Sleeping Sorceress was retitled The Vanishing Tower for some US editions; the database records the earlier UK title. Publication order genuinely differs from internal order and no two secondary sources fully agree on the exact publication sequence due to UK/US divergence, internal (reading) order is used here as the primary axis since it is the one Moorcock himself settled on for the modern standard edition.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Elric Saga: position 9 of 12: previous The Revenge of the Rose (1991) · next The Skrayling Tree (2003)
- Internal chronology, within The Eternal Champion: position 28 of 30: previous Stormbringer (1965) · next The Skrayling Tree (2003)
Sources
- Moorcock's Miscellany
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
- https://www.stevenhsilver.com/dreamthief.html
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