I have embarked on Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars/Barsoom series, which I last read in the 1970s, when, like this edition, they could be found in every W.H. Smiths (a company I may also have to explain in the future) in every town high street.

I have just finished the 'complete' Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock, except I haven't because after the conclusion there are three more novels that include Elric (sort of). Like all Moorcock it is variable in quality, but some fantastic ideas and images.

I have just finished my epic reading of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Sword and Sorcery series. That was 37 short stories, novellas, novelettes and novels. It was great in places, but to be honest some portions, particularly at the end, were hard going.

I am spending the morning in the 1980s.

My reading report is a bit thin, having been away and then ill. I am finding The Swords of Lankhmar a bit trying, as the characters keep acting like idiots. I am finishing up my Marvel Conan the Barbarian comics collections and continuing the 'new' Titan comics Conan, which is pretty fantastic.

My reading report for this week is that I am now at the end of the 4th of the 7 Fritz Lieber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser omnibus books and half way through Moorcock’s Revenge of the Rose (not to mention 2 volumes into Marvel’s Werewolf by Night and the seventh of Conan). I may be reading too much.

On my classic fantasy turn I started with all of the Robert E. Howard Conan stories, I moved on to Moorcock' Elric saga, and with an enforced break I have taken up the Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.

I am roughly half way through reading Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga. I read a lot of Moorcock when I was a teenager, although not that much Elric. It has all the strengths and weaknesses of Moorcock, but it is keeping me engaged so far.