Editing Eternal Champion (section)

===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.