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Michael John Moorcock

Michael Moorcock in 2006.
Born 18 December 1939 (1939-12-18) (age 68)
London, United Kingdom
Pen name Bill Barclay
William Ewert Barclay
Michael Barrington (with Barrington J. Bayley)
Edward P. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity Barrington John Bayley ( April 9, 1937 –) is best known for being an inventive Science fiction writer whose works in both novel and short story form Bradbury
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Warwick Colvin, Jr.
Philip James
Hank Janson
Desmond Reid
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Writing period Contemporary
Genres Science fiction, fantasy, comic books, historical fiction
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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" Historical fiction is a sub-genre of Fiction that often portrays alternate accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American Science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Leigh Douglass Brackett ( December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles California &ndash March 18, 1978) was a female writer of Science Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett 18th Baron of Dunsany ( 24 July 1878 &ndash 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and Robert Ervin Howard ( January 22 1906 &ndash June 11 1936) was an American pulp writer of Fantasy, This article refers to the science fiction writer For the actor see Fritz Leiber Sr Biography Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and David Allen Hargrave (May 25 1946 - August 29 1988 known as The Dream Weaver, was a prolific and sometimes controversial game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction China Tom Miéville (ˈtʃɑinɑ ˈmieɪˌvɪl (born September 6, 1972 in Norwich) is an award-winning English "fantastic fiction" Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Literary fiction is a term that has come into common usage since around 1970 principally to distinguish serious fiction (that is work with claims to Literary merit

Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. The Gods of Mars is a 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel the second of his famous Barsoom series Edgar Rice Burroughs ( September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author best known for his creation of the jungle hero The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza is a 1929 play by George Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw ( (26 July 1856 &ndash 2 November 1950 was an Irish Playwright. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. [1] He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has appeared in many British comic strips and novels described by Professor Jeffrey Richards on the BBC in 'The Radio Detectives' in 2003 as "the As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. New Worlds was a British Science fiction magazine which was first published professionally in 1946 New Wave is a term applied to Science fiction writing characterized by a high degree of experimentation both in form and in content and a Highbrow and self-consciously The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine. Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American Science fiction author An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Arts mainly by funding local artists awarding prizes and organizing events at

During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. James Colvin was a Pseudonym used by Michael Moorcock on several Short stories appearing in New Worlds in the 1960s in order to disguise A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Christ is the English term for the Greek ( Khristós) meaning "the anointed " The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA for the best Science fiction / Fantasy fiction A novella is a written, Fictional Prose Narrative longer than a Novelette but shorter than a Novel. Behold the Man (1969 is a Science fiction Novel by Michael Moorcock. This article details time travel itself For other uses see Time Traveler. They also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr. " as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his "Second Ether" fiction.

Moorcock's introduction to his experimental novel Breakfast in the Ruins referring to the fiction as the text of a manuscript found after the "late" author's death was a literary device taken literally by some readers. Experimental literature refers to written works - often Novels or Magazines - that place great emphasis on Innovations regarding technique and Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity is a 1972 novel by Michael Moorcock, which mixes historical and Speculative fiction A literary technique or literary device is an identifiable Rule of thumb, convention or Structure that is employed in Literature

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Works

Moorcock's most popular works by far have been the "Elric of Melniboné" stories. In these books, Elric is an anti-hero written as a deliberate reversal of what Moorcock saw as clichés commonly found in fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and a direct antithesis of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. A cliché (from French, klɪ'ʃe or cliche is a phrase expression or idea that has been overused to the point of losing its intended force Antithesis ( Greek for "setting opposite" from against + position) is a counter- Propositions and denotes a direct Contrast Robert Ervin Howard ( January 22 1906 &ndash June 11 1936) was an American pulp writer of Fantasy, Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland Cimmeria) is a Fictional character often associated with

Moorcock has also published a number of pastiches of writers for whom he felt affection as a boy, such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, and Howard himself. Edgar Rice Burroughs ( September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author best known for his creation of the jungle hero Leigh Douglass Brackett ( December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles California &ndash March 18, 1978) was a female writer of Science All his fantasy adventures have elements of satire and parody while respecting what he considers the essentials of the form. While these are perhaps his best known works in the United States, he came to prominence in the UK as a literary author, with books like Behold the Man and The Final Programme being received as non-genre work. Behold the Man (1969 is a Science fiction Novel by Michael Moorcock. Novels and series like the "Cornelius Quartet", Mother London, King of the City, and the "Pyat Quartet" have established him in the eyes of critics in publications such as the [London] Times Literary Supplement and The London Review of Books as a major contemporary literary novelist. Jerry Cornelius is a fictional Secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. Pyat Quartet is a Tetralogy of Speculative fiction Novels (1981-2006 by Michael Moorcock comprising Byzantium Endures The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969 is a weekly literary review published in London by News International The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a Fortnightly British literary and political magazine Virtually all of his stories are part of his overarching "Eternal Champion" theme or oeuvre, with characters (including Elric) moving from one storyline and fictional universe to another, all of them interconnected (though often only in dreams or visions). For the video game see Eternal Champions The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in In Fine art, a work of art (or artwork or work) is a creation such as a Song, Book, Film, Video game, A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography and possibly fantasy or science Dreams are the images sounds thoughts and feelings experienced while Sleeping, particularly strongly associated with Rapid eye movement sleep. In Spirituality including Religion, visions comprise Inspirational renderings generally of a Future state and/or of a mythical

Moorcock ‘s work is frequently praised as being complex and multilayered. Central to many of his fantasy novels is the concept of an "Eternal Champion," who has potentially multiple identities across multiple dimensions of reality and alternative universes. For the video game see Eternal Champions The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in This cosmology is called the "Multiverse" within his novels. Cosmology (from Greek grc κοσμολογία - grc κόσμος kosmos, "universe" and grc -λογία -logia) is study The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible Universes (including our universe that together comprise all of Reality. The "Eternal Champion" is engaged in a constant struggle with not only conventional notions of good and evil, but also in the struggle for balance between Law and Chaos. Law and Chaos are the dominant metaphysical forces in the Fantasy stories of Michael Moorcock, which he derived from Poul Anderson (especially

The popularity of Elric has overshadowed his many other works, though he has worked a number of the themes of the Elric stories into his other works (the "Hawkmoon" and "Corum" novels, for example). His Eternal Champion sequence has been collected in two different editions of omnibus volumes comprising fifteen books containing several books per volume, by Victor Gollancz in the UK and by White Wolf Publishing in the US. In 2003, Universal optioned the rights to the Elric series to be produced by the Weitz brothers. [2]

Another of Moorcock's popular creations is Jerry Cornelius (another JC), a kind of hip secret agent of ambiguous sexuality; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books. Jerry Cornelius is a fictional Secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ ( anér, meaning man and γυνή ( gyné, meaning woman that can refer to either of two These books were most obviously satirical of modern times, including the Vietnam War, and continue to feature as another variation of the Multiverse theme. The first Jerry Cornelius book, The Final Programme (1968) was made into a feature film. The Final Programme was a 1973 British comedy-thriller film directed by Robert Fuest, and starring Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre. Its story line is essentially identical to two of the Elric stories: The Dreaming City and the Dead Gods' Book. The Condition of Muzak, the fourth book in the quartet, won the Guardian Fiction Award in 1977. The Condition of Muzak is a novel by British fantasy and Science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. Guardian First Book Award issued before 1999 as Guardian Fiction Prize or Guardian Fiction Award is awarded to new writing in Fiction and Non-fiction Since 1998, Moorcock has returned to Cornelius in a series of new stories: 'The Spencer Inheritance', 'The Camus Connection', 'Cheering for the Rockets', and 'Firing the Cathedral', which was concerned with 9/11. All four novellas were included in the 2003 edition of The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius. The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius is a collection of short stories by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. Moorcock's most recent Cornelius story appeared in the journal Nature[3] in May 2006 and was called 'The Visible Men'. Nature is a prominent Scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869

Most of Moorcock's earlier work consisted of short stories and relatively brief novels: he has mentioned that "I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume. That's how, for instance, the Hawkmoon books were written. "[4] Since the 1980s, Moorcock has tended to write longer, more literary 'mainstream' novels, such as Mother London and Byzantium Endures, which have had positive reviews, but he continues to revisit characters from his earlier works, such as Elric, with books like The Dreamthief's Daughter or The Skrayling Tree. With the publication of the third and last book in this series, The White Wolf's Son, he announced that he was 'retiring' from writing heroic fantasy fiction, though he continues to write Elric's adventures as graphic novels with his long-time collaborator Walter Simonson. Walter "Walt" Simonson (born September 2 1946) is an American Comic book writer and artist Together, they produced the graphic novel, Elric: the Making of a Sorcerer, published by DC Comics in 2007. He has also completed his Colonel Pyat sequence, dealing with the Nazi Holocaust, which began in 1981 with Byzantium Endures, continued through The Laughter of Carthage (1984) and Jerusalem Commands (1992), and now culminates with The Vengeance of Rome (2006). Byzantium Endures (1981 is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is the first in the Pyat Quartet Tetralogy. The Laughter of Carthage is the second novel in the Pyat Quartet Tetralogy of novels by Michael Moorcock. Jerusalem Commands is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is the third in the Pyat Quartet tetralogy The Vengeance of Rome (2006 is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is the fourth in the Pyat Quartet Tetralogy.

Although Moorcock is mostly known for the books mentioned above, he also wrote several novels and novellas that are set on Earth millions of years in the future; the best known in The Dancers at the End of Time. The Dancers at the End of Time is a series of Science fiction Novels and Short stories written by Michael Moorcock, the setting of which is the His award-winning Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen, while set in an alternate Earth history, is not strictly a fantasy novel. Gloriana or The Unfulfill'd Queen is a novel by award winning British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock.

Moorcock is prone to revising his existing work, with the result that different editions of a given book may contain significant variations. The changes range from simple retitlings (e. g. , the Elric story The Flame Bringers becoming The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams in the 1990s Gollancz/White Wolf omnibus editions) to character name changes (e. g. , scout leader "Egan" becoming "Reagan" in the omnibus edition of The War Lord of the Air), major textual alterations (e. g. , the addition of several new chapters to The Steel Tsar in the omnibus editions), and even complete restructurings (e. g. , the seminal 1966 novella Behold the Man being expanded to full novel length for republication in 1969).

Awards

Michael Moorcock has won a number of awards both for individual books and 'lifetime achievement'.

Moorcock in music

Moorcock collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind on many occasions: The Hawkwind track "The Black Corridor," for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time. The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA for the best Science fiction / Fantasy fiction The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971 This page describes the award for best science fiction novel for other awards see Campbell Award (disambiguation The World Fantasy Awards are annual international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of Fantasy. Utopiales is an annual international science fiction festival held in Nantes France, probably the largest European event for the field The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA for "superior achievement" in horror writing. Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA (ˈsɪfwə or /ˈsɛfwə/ was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight. The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is an Award given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Hawkwind are a British rock band, one of the earliest Space rock groups Moorcock also penned the lyrics to "Sonic Attack," a Sci-Fi send-up of the public information broadcast, that was part of Hawkwind's Space Ritual set. Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels. The Chronicle of the Black Sword is an album by Space rock band Hawkwind, released in 1985. Moorcock appeared on stage with the band occasionally during the Black Sword tour. His contributions were removed from the original release of the Live Chronicles album, recorded on this tour, due to legal reasons but has subsequently appeared on some double CD versions. Live Chronicles is a 1986 album by Hawkwind recorded of a live performance of their The Chronicle of the Black Sword Michael Moorcock based concept He can also be seen performing on the DVD version of Chronicle of the Black Sword.

Moorcock also collaborated with former Hawkwind frontman and resident poet, Robert Calvert (who gave the chilling declamation of "Sonic Attack"), on Calvert's albums Lucky Leif and the Longships and Hype. Robert Newton Calvert ( 9 March 1945, Pretoria South Africa - 14 August 1988) was a writer poet and performer Lucky Leif and the Longships is a 1975 record album by Robert Calvert, produced by Brian Eno. Hype is a 1981 album by singer Robert Calvert, the former frontman of British space-rock band Hawkwind.

An album New Worlds Fair by "Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix" was released in 1975, which included a number of Hawkwind regulars in the credits. New Worlds Fair is a 1975 concept album by UK rock group Michael Moorcock & Deep Fix. A second version of the album Roller Coaster Holiday was issued in 2004. ("The Deep Fix" was the title story of an obscure collection of short stories by "James Colvin" published in the 1960s. The Deep Fix was also the fictional band fronted by Moorcock's character Jerry Cornelius. Jerry Cornelius is a fictional Secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. )

Moorcock wrote the lyrics to three album tracks by the American band Blue Öyster Cult: "Black Blade", referring to the sword Stormbringer in the Elric books, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" showing us Elric's emotions at a critical point of his story (this song may also refer to the "Warriors at the Edge of Time," which figure heavily in Moorcock's novels about John Daker; at one point his novel "The Dragon in the Sword" they call themselves the "veterans of a thousand psychic wars"), and "The Great Sun Jester", about his friend, the poet Bill Butler, who died of a drug overdose. Blue Öyster Cult is an American rock band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2008 Cultösaurus Erectus is a Blue Öyster Cult Album released in 1980 " Veteran of the Psychic Wars " is a song by the American Hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, written by Eric Bloom (band vocal and Michael Mirrors is an album by Blue Öyster Cult released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) Moorcock has even performed live with BÖC (in 1987 at the Atlanta, GA Dragon Con Convention) and Hawkwind. Dragon Con (also Dragon*Con) is a North America multigenre convention, held annually in Atlanta Georgia.

Moorcock appeared on five tracks on the Spirits Burning CD "Alien Injection," released in 2008. He is credited with singing lead vocals and playing guitar and mandolin. The performances used on the CD were from sessions for planned albums based on two of his novels: "Glorianna" and "The Entropy Tango. " The albums were never completed.

The first of an audio book series of unabridged Elric novels, with new work read by Moorcock, have recently begun appearing from AudioRealms. The second audiobook in the series - The Sailor on the Seas of Fate - was published in 2007.

Views on other writers

Moorcock is a fervent supporter of the works of Mervyn Peake, and an almost equally fervent detractor of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Biography Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution He met both Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in his teens, and claims to have liked them personally even though he does not admire them on artistic grounds. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963 In Fantasy: The Hundred Best Books (July 1991), however, he and his coauthor James Cawthorn are generous to Tolkien's work.

Moorcock criticises works like The Lord of the Rings for their "Merry England" point of view, famously equating Tolkien's novel to Winnie-the-Pooh in his essay "Epic Pooh. The Lord of the Rings is an epic " Merry England " sometimes archaised as " Merrie England " refers to a Utopian conception of English society and culture based on an Idyllic Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional Bear created by A Epic Pooh is a 1978 article by the British Science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, originally written for the British Science Fiction Association " [5]

He cites Fritz Leiber, an important sword and sorcery pioneer, as an author who writes fantasy that is not escapist and contains meaningful themes. This article refers to the science fiction writer For the actor see Fritz Leiber Sr These views can be found in his study of epic fantasy, Wizardry & Wild Romance, which was revised and reissued by MonkeyBrain Books in 2004. High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of Fantasy fiction that is set in invented or parallel worlds.

Likewise, Moorcock has criticized writers for what he perceives as their political agendas. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions Among his targets are Robert A. Heinlein and H. P. Lovecraft, both of whom he attacked in a 1978 essay. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy In that essay, entitled "Starship Stormtroopers," [6] he compared Heinlein's Starship Troopers to Mein Kampf, calling it "xenophobic. Starship Troopers is a Science fiction Novel by Robert A Heinlein, first published (in abridged form as a serial in The Magazine Mein Kampf ( English: My Struggle/My Battle) is a book by Adolf Hitler. Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries " Likewise, he attacked Lovecraft for having anti-semitic, misogynistic and extremely racist viewpoints, which he included in his short stories. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility Misogyny (mɪˈsɒdʒɪni is hatred (or contemptof women Misogyny is parallel to Misandry — the hatred of men List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that Moorcock makes no bones about his own anarchist political agenda in his own novels - for example, sympathetically portrayed monarchs in Moorcock's works frequently abdicate or impose exile upon themselves (eg. Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i Elric). King of the City, the Cornelius stories and the Pyat novels all display strong, often explicit, political views.

Sharing fictional universes with others

Moorcock has allowed a number of other writers to create stories in his fictional Jerry Cornelius universe. Brian Aldiss, M. John Harrison, Norman Spinrad, and James Sallis, among others, have written such stories. Brian Wilson Aldiss, '''OBE''', (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England) is a prolific English Michael John Harrison (born July 26, 1945) who writes as M John Harrison, is a British author of Science fiction, Fantasy Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American Science fiction author James Sallis (born 21 December 1944 in Helena Arkansas) is an American Crime writer, Poet and Musician, best known for his series In an interview published in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Moorcock explains the reason for sharing his character:

“ I came out of popular fiction and Jerry was always meant to be a sort of crystal ball for others to see their own visions in — the stories were designed to work like that — a diving board, to use another analogy, from which to jump into the river and be carried along by it. The Internet Review of Science Fiction (often given as IROSF) is an American Webzine devoted to Science fiction Criticism [. . . ] All of these have tended to use Jerry the way I intended to use him — as a way of seeing modern life and sometimes as a way of commenting on it. Jerry, as Harrison said, was as much a technique as a character and I'm glad that others have taken to using that method. [7] ”

Two short stories by Keith Roberts, "Coranda" and "The Wreck of the Kissing Bitch", are set in the frozen Matto Grosso plateau of Moorcock's 1969 novel, The Ice Schooner. Keith Roberts (1935 - 2000 was a British Science fiction author.

He is a friend and fan of comics writer Alan Moore, and allowed Moore the use of his own character, Michael Kane of Old Mars, mentioned in Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II. Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II is a Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill The two men appeared to a capacity audience on stage at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London in January 2006 where they discussed Moorcock's work. The Green City from Kane of Old Mars was also referenced in Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars. Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 Los Angeles California) is a US Science fiction author. Rainbow Mars is a Science fiction short story collection (published in 1999) by Larry Niven, in which Humans from Earth Moorcock's character Jerry Cornelius will also be appearing in Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century. Jerry Cornelius is a fictional Secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III Century is the upcoming volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

In 2000, Moorcock wrote a 50,000-word outline for a computer game, which was then improved upon and fleshed out by Storm Constantine, resulting in the novel, Silverheart. Storm Constantine is a British Science fiction and Fantasy author primarily known for her Wraeththu series The story is set in Karadur-Shriltasi, a city at the heart of the Multiverse. Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own A second novel, Dragonskin is currently in preparation, with Constantine as the main writer.

Moorcock is currently working on a memoir about his friends Mervyn and Maeve Peake and writing a text for first publication in French to accompany a set of unpublished Peake drawings. His book The Metatemporal Detective was published in 2007.

Biographical

Moorcock is the former husband of Hilary Bailey. Hilary Bailey is a British writer and editor born in 1936 She is the former wife of Michael Moorcock.

He is also the former husband of Jill Riches, the illustrator, who later become Robert Calvert's wife. Riches did cover illustrations for some of Moorcock's books.

Moorcock was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA is the name of a literary group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s noted Heroic fantasy is a sub-genre of Fantasy literature which chronicles the tales of heroes and their conquests in imaginary lands Linwood Vrooman Carter ( June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of Science fiction and Fantasy Flashing Swords! was a series of Fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter.

In 1997, Moorcock was one of the guests of honor at the Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas and was Guest of Honor at the World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Christi, Texas.

In the 1990s, Moorcock moved to Bastrop, Texas in the United States. Bastrop is a city and the County seat of Bastrop County, Texas, United States, located about thirty miles southeast of Austin it is The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In 2004, he announced plans to spend half the year in Europe, probably eventually settling in France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

Moorcock was the subject of two book length works, a monograph and an interview, by Colin Greenland. Colin Greenland (born May 17 1954) is a British Science fiction writer whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber In 1983, Greenland published The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction. He followed this with Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, a book length interview in 1992.

Select bibliography

Anthologies edited

He has also edited a number of other volumes, including two bringing together examples of invasion literature:

Non-fiction

Footnotes

  1. ^ Thoughts \ Interviews \ People Online Chat with Michael Moorcock
  2. ^ 'Elric Saga' fantasy series optioned. Stormbringer is the name of the infamous black Sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael Moorcock. For the video game see Eternal Champions The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in Dorian Hawkmoon Duke of Köln is one of the fictional characters created by Michael Moorcock in his series of the Eternal Champion books Corum Jhaelen Irsei is the name of a fantasy hero in a series of books written by Michael Moorcock. Behold the Man (1969 is a Science fiction Novel by Michael Moorcock. The Black Corridor is a Science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock, published in 1969 first by Ace Books in the USA as part of their The Chinese Agent (1970 is a comic novel by Michael Moorcock. The Chinese Agent (1970 is a comic novel by Michael Moorcock. Michael Moorcock's Multiverse, is a twelve-issue Comic book Limited series published in 1997 as a part of the short-lived DC Comics The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of short fiction by the prolific award winning British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. A Nomad of the Time Streams is a compilation volume of Michael Moorcock 's influential early Steampunk trilogy which Moorcock began in 1971 with The Warlord of the Air is a 1971 British alternate history Science fiction Novel written by Michael Moorcock. The Land Leviathan is a Sci-fi / Alternate history novel by Michael Moorcock, first published in 1974 The Steel Tsar is a Sci-fi / Alternate history novel by Michael Moorcock, first published in 1981 by Granada The Dancers at the End of Time is a series of Science fiction Novels and Short stories written by Michael Moorcock, the setting of which is the The Dancers at the End of Time is a series of Science fiction Novels and Short stories written by Michael Moorcock, the setting of which is the Gloriana or The Unfulfill'd Queen is a novel by award winning British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. Mother London (1988 is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. King of the City (2000 is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is a satire on modern London and its literary scene and in part a sequel to ' Mother London Jerry Cornelius is a fictional Secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. The Final Programme is a novel by British science fiction and fantasy writer Michael Moorcock[http //www A Cure for Cancer is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. The English Assassin A Romance of Entropy is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. The Condition of Muzak is a novel by British fantasy and Science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. The Cornelius Quartet is the collective name for the Jerry Cornelius novels by Michael Moorcock. The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century A Romance is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius is a collection of short stories by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. The Entropy Tango is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. The Alchemist's Question is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. Firing the Cathedral is a novella by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. Graf Ulrich von Bek is a Fictional character created by Michael Moorcock. The War Hound and the World's Pain is a 1981 Fantasy novel by Michael Moorcock, the first of the "von Bek" series of novels The Brothel in Rosenstrasse is a 1982 Novel by Michael Moorcock. The City in the Autumn Stars: Being a Continuation of the Story of the Von Bek Family and Its Association With Lucifer Prince of Darkness, a Science fantasy Byzantium Endures (1981 is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is the first in the Pyat Quartet Tetralogy. The Laughter of Carthage is the second novel in the Pyat Quartet Tetralogy of novels by Michael Moorcock. Jerusalem Commands is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is the third in the Pyat Quartet tetralogy The Vengeance of Rome (2006 is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It is the fourth in the Pyat Quartet Tetralogy. Invasion literature (or the invasion novel) was a historical Literary genre most notable between 1871 and the First World War (1914 Before Armageddon An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 is a collection of stories including Invasion literature, and England Invaded, a collection of imaginative fiction including Invasion literature, from the Victorian and Edwardian periods edited by Michael Moorcock //wwwmonkeybrainbookscom/ MonkeyBrain Books ] ( MonkeyBrain Inc CNN. com. Retrieved on 2007-02-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy
  3. ^ 'The visible men. nature. com. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
  4. ^ The Michael Moorcock Interview. Quantum Muse. Retrieved on 2007-02-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy
  5. ^ Michael Moorcock. Epic Pooh. RevolutionSF. Retrieved on 2007-02-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy
  6. ^ Michael Moorcock. Starship Stormtroopers. A People's Libertarian Index. Retrieved on 2007-02-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy
  7. ^ Mike Coombes. An Interview with Michael Moorcock. The Internet Review of Science Fiction. Retrieved on 2007-02-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy

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NAME Moorcock, Michael John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colvin, James; Colvin, Warwick, Jr. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26 1946 &ndash April 9 2005 was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of Pornography, which she believed
SHORT DESCRIPTION English novelist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1939 (1939-12-18) (age 68)
PLACE OF BIRTH London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
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