The White Wolf's Son
core novel 2005 The Eternal Champion
Record
| First published | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.82 (467 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780446577021 |
| Internal chronology | 12 |
Synopsis
The White Wolf's Son follows Oonagh von Bek, a young girl living in Yorkshire, whose ordinary life ends when she falls into a network of caves beneath her home and finds herself carried into the wider multiverse. Traveling in the company of a talking fox and a blind albino boy, she is pursued across strange lands, including a nightmarish alternate Britain ruled as a fascist state, by forces who believe her blood holds the key to the fate of the entire multiverse. Both Elric of Melniboné and a malevolent English king take a personal interest in her journey, each for reasons of their own, as Oonagh is drawn deeper into a conflict she barely understands but cannot escape.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Eternal Champion
- Series: The Elric Saga core; position 12 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 11 of 12: previous The Skrayling Tree (2003) · next The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (2022)
- Internal chronology, within The Eternal Champion: position 30 of 30: previous The Skrayling Tree (2003)
Sources
- Moorcock's Miscellany
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-moorcock/the-white-wolfs-son/
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