Editing Eternal Champion (section)

==Publishing history==
===The Tale of the Eternal Champion===
Between 1992 and 1993 Moorcock partnered with British publisher Millenium (later absorbed into the [[Orion Publishing Group]]) to print a multi-volume collection of all novels and short stories belonging to the Eternal Champion sequence, under the moniker of "The Tale of the Eternal Champion"; starting from 1994 and up to 2000, a parallel project simply called "The Eternal Champion" was undertaken by [[White Wolf Publishing]] for the North American market, but each of the two series ended up including some contents left out of its counterpart due to licensing issues, while certain works could not make into the collection whatsoever. This publishing operation represented Moorcock's first attempt to systematize his magnum opus both in terms of editorial uniformity and textual revisions.

The following table and paragraph list the full contents of both the European and North American versions of the collection. It should be noticed that the Orion collection was arranged according to Moorcock's then-preferred reading order, which was altered in the White Wolf version.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ The Tale of the Eternal Champion
|-
| || ''Millenium/Orion'' || ''White Wolf'' 
|-
| 1.|| Von Bek || The Eternal Champion
|-
| 2.|| The Eternal Champion|| Von Bek
|-
| 3.|| Hawkmoon || Hawkmoon
|-
| 4.|| Corum || A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance
|-
| 5.|| Sailing to Utopia || Elric: Song of the Black Sword
|-
| 6.|| A Nomad of the Time Streams || The Roads Between the Worlds
|-
| 7.|| The Dancers at the End of Time || Corum: The Coming of Chaos
|-
| 8.|| Elric of Melniboné || Sailing to Utopia
|-
| 9.|| The New Nature of the Catastrophe || Kane of Old Mars
|-
| 10.|| The Prince with the Silver Hand || The Dancers at the End of Time
|-
| 11.|| Legends from the End of Time || Elric: The Stealer of Souls
|-
| 12.|| Stormbringer || Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand
|-
| 13.|| Earl Aubec and Other Stories || Legends from the End of Time
|-
| 14.|| Count Brass || Earl Aubec and Other Stories
|-
| 15.||  || Count Brass
|}
Both versions of the collection included Elric's saga, Corum's hexalogy, Hawkmoon's heptalogy, and the ''End of Time'' series as two-volumes sets and devoted one volume each to John Daker's trilogy, Captain Bastable's trilogy, and the von Bek duology (which was complemented by the detective short story "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius"); ''Sailing to Utopia'' was a thematical anthology combining ''The Ice Schooner'', ''The Distant Suns'', ''The Black Corridor'' and the novella "Flux", and likewise ''Earl Aubec and Other Stories'' collected thirty-three works of short fiction from across Moorcock's production, among them the two short stories focussing on the Scared-Face Brooder and the short novels ''The Golden Barge'' and ''My Experiences in the Third World War''.

As for region-exclusive contents, the European-only ''The New Nature of the Catastrophe'' was an anthology of short fiction centered upon Jerry Cornelius, expanding upon the earlier collection ''The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius'', whereas the North American-only ''Kane of Old Mars'' collected Michael Kane's trilogy. Moreover, White Wolf Publishing did secure the rights over the stand-alone science fiction novels ''The Sundered World'', ''The Wrecks of Time'', ''The Winds of Limbo'', and ''The Shores of Death'', but their inclusion came at the expense of Moorcock's preferred reading order: ''The Sundered World'' was inserted into John Daker's volume as an interlude between that character's first and second novel; Daker's third novel was moved into the von Bek volume as a coda; and ''The Wrecks of Time'', ''The Winds of Limbo'', and ''The Shores of Death'' were collected into the thematical anthology ''The Roads Between the Worlds'', which interconnected the three novels through an original framing device.

It is also worth mentioning that the first edition of the ''Second Ether'' trilogy was published by Millenium itself right after "The Tale of the Eternal Champion" was completed, and that while Jerry Cornelius's and Karl Glogauer's novels were not formally included in the series, nonetheless they were still being distributed in the UK by Orion under its Phoenix House imprint, together with Moorcock's non-Champion novels ''Gloriana; or, the Unfulfill'd Queen'' and ''The Brothel in Rosenstrasse''. As a result, Jerry Cornell's duology was the only series in the Eternal Champion mythos not to be included in either collection, nor officially nor informally.

===The Michael Moorcock Collection===
Moorcock's second attempt to systematize the Eternal Champion corpus took place between 2013 and 2015, once [[Victor Gollancz Ltd]] (another imprint of the Orion conglomerate) secured the rights for all of his fantasy and science-fiction works and consequently reprinted them in a cohesive series, labeled as "The Michael Moorcock Collection"; as of 2021, these Gollancz editions represent the most updated versions of Moorcock's opus, due to their contents having been jointly revised by the author and his bibliographer John Davey into a definitive textual rendition. This publication included both all of the author's full-length novels and a selection of short fiction and was eventually complemented by two stand-alone series collecting the author's non-Champion sagas, the ''London Sequence'' and ''The Sanctuary of the White Friars''.

The following table and paragraph list the full contents of the collection.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ The Michael Moorcock Collection
|-
| || ''Volume'' || ''Contents'' 
|-
| 1.|| Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories || "Master of Chaos" (1964), Moorcock's original script for the [[graphic novel]] ''Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer'' (2005), ''Elric of Melniboné'' (1972)
|-
| 2.|| Elric: The Fortress of the Pearl || ''The Fortress of the Pearl'' (1989)
|-
| 3.|| Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate || ''[[The Sailor on the Seas of Fate]]'' (1976), "[[The Dreaming City]]" (1961), "A Portrait in Ivory" (2007), "While the Gods Laugh" (1961), "The Singing Citadel" (1967)
|-
| 4.|| Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress || "The Eternal Champion" (1962), "The Greater Conqueror" (1963), ''The Sleeping Sorceress'' (1971), "The Stone Thing: A Tale of Strange Parts" (1974), "Sir Milk-and-Blood" (1996), "The Roaming Forest: A Tale of the Red Archer" (2006), "The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera" (2007). All content but the titular novel is miscellaneous short fiction only passingly related to Elric's series.  
|-
| 5.|| Elric: The Revenge of the Rose || ''The Revenge of the Rose'' (1991), "The Stealer of Souls" (1962), "[[Kings in Darkness]]" (1962), "The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams" (1962), "The Last Enchantment" (1962), "To Rescue Tanelorn..." (1962)
|-
| 6.|| Elric: Stormbringer! || ''Stormbringer'' (1963–1964)
|-
| 7.|| Elric: The Moonbeam Roads || ''Daughter of Dreams'' (originally titled ''The Dreamthief's Daughter'', 2001), ''Destiny's Brother'' (originally titled ''The Skrayling Tree'', 2003), ''Son of the Wolf'' (originally titled ''The White Wolf's Son'', 2003)
|-
| 8.|| Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe || ''The Knight of the Swords'' (1971), ''The Queen of the Swords'' (1971), ''The King of the Swords'' (1971)
|-
| 9.|| Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand || ''The Bull and the Spear'' (1973), ''The Oak and the Ram'' (1973), ''The Sword and the Stallion'' (1974)
|-
| 10.|| Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff || ''The Jewel in the Skull'' (1967), ''The Mad God's Amulet'' (1968), ''The Sword of the Dawn'' (1968), ''The Runestaff'' (1969)
|-
| 11.|| Hawkmoon: Count Brass || ''Count Brass'' (1973), ''The Champion of Garathorm'' (1973), ''The Quest for Tanelorn'' (1975) 
|-
| 12.|| The Cornelius Quartet || ''[[The Final Programme]]'' (1968), ''[[A Cure for Cancer]]'' (1971), ''[[The English Assassin: A Romance of Entropy|The English Assassin]]'' (1972), ''[[The Condition of Muzak]]'' (1977)
|-
| 13.|| Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times || Expanded revision of ''[[The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius]]'' (1976)
|-
| 14.|| A Cornelius Calendar || ''[[The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century]]'' (1976), ''[[The Entropy Tango]]'' (1981), ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' (1980), ''[[The Alchemist's Question]]'' (1984), ''[[Firing the Cathedral]]'' (2002), ''Modern Times 2.0'' (2008)
|-
| 15.|| Von Bek || ''The War Hound and the World's Pain'' (1981), ''The City in the Autumn Stars'' (1986)
|-
| 16.|| The Eternal Champion ||  ''The Eternal Champion: A Fantastic Romance'' (1970), ''Phoenix in Obsidian'' (1970), ''The Dragon in the Sword'' (1986)
|-
| 17.|| [[The Dancers at the End of Time]] || ''An Alien Heat'' (1972), ''The Hollow Lands'' (1974), ''The End of All Songs'' (1976)
|-
| 18.|| Kane of Old Mars || ''City of the Beast'' (1965), ''Lord of the Spiders'' (1965), ''Masters of the Pit'' (1965)
|-
| 19.|| Moorcock's Multiverse || ''The Sundered Worlds'' (1965), ''The Winds of Limbo'' (1969; a revised version of ''The Fireclown'', 1965), ''The Shores of Death'' (originally titled ''The Twilight Man'', 1966)
|-
| 20.|| The Nomad of Time: A Scientific Romance || ''The Warlord of the Air'' (1971), ''The Land Leviathan'' (1974), ''The Steel Tsar'' (1981)
|-
| 21.|| Travelling to Utopia || ''The Wrecks of Time'' (1967), ''The Ice Schooner'' (1969), ''The Black Corridor'' (1969) 
|-
| 22.|| The War Amongst the Angels || ''Blood: A Southern Fantasy'' (1994), ''Fabulous Harbours'' (1995), ''The War Amongst The Angels'' (1996)
|-
| 23.|| Tales from the End of Time || ''Pale Roses'' (1976), ''White Star'' (1976), ''Ancient Shadows'' (1976), ''Constant Fire'' (1977), ''Elric at the End of Time'' (1981), ''Sumptuous Dress'' (2008)
|-
| 24.|| Behold the Man || ''Behold the Man'' (1969)
|-
| 25.|| Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen || ''Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen'' (1978)
|-
| 26.|| My Experiences in the Third World War and Other Stories || ''My Experiences in the Third World War'' (1979–1989), "The Mountain" (1964), "The Deep Fix" (1964), "The Frozen Cardinal" (1987), "Wolf" (1966), "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius" (1965), "The Real-Life Mr Newman" (1966), "The Cairene Purse" (1990)
|-
| 27.|| The Brothel in Rosenstrasse and Other Stories || ''The Brothel in Rosenstrasse'' (1982), "The Opium General" (1984), "London Bone" (1997), "A Winter Admiral" (1994), "Doves in the Circle" (1997), "A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club" (2001)
|-
| 28.|| Breakfast in the Ruins and Other Stories || ''Breakfast in the Ruins'' (1972), "The Time Dweller" (1964), "Escape from Evening" (1965), "A Dead Singer" (1974), "London Flesh" (2006), "Behold the Man" (1966).
|} 
The Collection was further complemented by five [[e-book|digital]]-only releases:
* Jerry Cornell's series:
*# ''[[The Chinese Agent]]'' (1970)
*# ''[[The Russian Intelligence]]'' (1980)
* ''The Golden Barge'' (1979, but originally composed in 1958)
* ''Sojan the Swordsman'' (1977, but originally composed in 1954–1958)
* ''The Distant Suns'' (1975, but originally composed in 1969)
As of 2021, Gollancz has not yet acquired the rights for the ''Pyat Quartet'', consisting of:
#''[[Byzantium Endures]]'' (1981)
#''[[The Laughter of Carthage]]'' (1984)
#''[[Jerusalem Commands]]'' (1992)
#''[[The Vengeance of Rome]]'' (2006)