Also I forgot a couple of others that have humor which are the Grey Mouser series by Fritz Lieber and The High Crusade by Poul Anderson. The High Crusade is one of my favorite stories.

When I was in the 4th grade I brought home Heinlein's Red Planet from the school library to read. I didn't even know what science fiction was but I went back and read everything by him I could find. Then I discovered a Andre Norton a lady who wrote the Ross Murdock/Time Traders series.

Elric is my all time favorite S&S hero. Thanks, I'll check it out.

If the Eternal Champion has something to do with Jerry Cornelius... no.

I haven't read s-f in a long time. But the current bookshelves
look like they have an interesting character: the female Navvy
Captain which also puts me in mind of Steam Punk. I don't know the
author, nor can I think of it.

I mentioned several. Which is this one that nobody knows?

Bastable? Bastable comes from the period and an alternate
timelime of Mrs. Amelia Underwood. The Bastable stories were
in the old Ace style dime novels around 1976... short novels,
not really stories. He's an airship captain in the alternate
timeline where nuclear technology was never invented.

I used to make a steady diet of this stuff: Phil Farmer, Sturgeon,
and the ace of pulps Ron Goulart. I still listen to the old
time radio stories when they're on like "X Minus One." And there
is some current news about Norman Corwin -- like a retrospective--
but I lost track of that.