Michael Moorcock's HAWKMOON - The Original Warhammer 40K 

super underrated author. i have no idea why people look at me so strangely when i ask if they'd like moorcock.

actually it was confirmed by the writers that king huron was an influence on the god emperor not just solely leto atreides from dune.

Pretty much all old Warhammer is them cramming all the books, movies, and historical texts into a blender making a smoothie.

The number of people who have taken from Moorcock and then pretended to not know who he even was is truly astounding.

I believe he wrote the entirety of this series in like 12 days so that may explain your issues with the series.

wokehammer woun"t survive in time , only origins can save it....

He also wrote the song "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" which is basically 40k in song form.

Every time people talk about what 40k stole they mention Dune, Lovecraft and Starship Troopers, but they never talk about the Eternal Champion, really troubling considering the whole chaos thing is from Moorcock.

I feel bad for Michael Mootcock. He’s been ripped of by a bunch of people who go on to achieve more mainstream success. The Witcher started being written the same year Elric was translated into polish

I think Moorcock himself would agree with your harsher critiques. He has stated many times that his own writing style is to just pour the stories out and that not all of them were gold but they add to the overall breadth of his work. He was a sci Fi magazine editor for years and wrote for that medium himself, which gives some understanding to the frequency and length of his works. I love him for everything he is, Elric changed my life forever.

It’s really strange how Moorcock kind of just vanished from prominence. Back in the day, he was essentially the anti-Tolkien: the father of dark fantasy. Everyone I knew who liked fantasy and heavy metal revered him. And then (probably due to publishing issues, his lineup was confusing to follow in print and/or out of print for a while) he just sort of vanished from the public eye, despite being the guy who inspired folks like GRRM, the guy who invented steampunk (Warlords of the Air), one of the main inspirations for 40k and who wrote everyone’s favorite fantasy bad boy: Elric of Melniboné.

Read this and other Eternal Champion books over 40 years ago. Very happy to know that people still appreciate Moorcock's work.

There is too little Moorcock content - and even less Hawkmoon content on YT. Keep up the good work 👍

I read this series last year (I'd read the first book probably 30 years ago). Reading it, I kept thinking "oh, here's where like 80% of Warhammer came from."

The Eternal Champion series has a Realm of Chaos, one of the ECs is basically the Primarch Magnus, there is an artifact similar to the Talon of Horus....

I'd heard people say that Games Workshop just ripped off Moorcock before but I hadnt realized just how much they took from him for 40k.

The character Huillem D'Averc helped the sequels greatly. I loved his dynamic relationship with Hawkmoon.

Moorcock's prolific prose has always breathed life into Warhammer.

Moorcock is good, from tip to hilt. Once you cross that threshold, hes in and youre on a ride

Michael Moorcock: the most stolen-from, under-respected author in British fantasy. (GW, Sabkowski, 2000AD, etc. all doing the side-eye monkey meme rn.)