A review by hammard
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock

3.0

Moorcock's novels always seem to be very much of their time. Original enough and competent enough to wow people when they were written but today the ideas are so suffused into our culture and have been better articulated, Moorcock's iterations are a struggle. Many of the ideas in Stormbringer had been already been used (by Tolkein and Anderson among others) and would become standard narrative tools over the next decades.
Moorcock style is palatable but not great. He also has a strange trend towards nihlism, which often directly contradicts the narrative direction he's established.
However, these are still an entertaining enough collection of tales and probably the best of his writing.