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  Sweet Despise : Michael Moorcock Homepage
Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock has had an important influence in fantasy and science fiction since the '60's.
When Moorcock was offered editorship of New Worlds he was already a successful writer with the Elric character, his most famous creation, under his belt.
Moorcock then used characters from these stories when he went on to create the other Jerry Cornelius novels, but taking the character to even greater heights, along with the great supporting cast.
www.eclipse.co.uk /sweetdespise/moorcock   (532 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Michael Moorcock   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939) is a prolific British writer of both science fiction and science fantasy.
Moorcock wrote the first Elric stories as a deliberate reversal of the cliches common in the fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (which Moorcock despised) as well as the work of Robert E. Howard.
Michael Moorcock sets out to examine a genre he terms 'epic fantasy', a sub-division of fantasy that he goes on to define as being '...distinguished from myth...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Moorcock   (845 words)

  
 Michael Moorcock: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939) is a prolific British (The people of Great Britain) writer of both science fiction (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) and science fantasy (Imagination unrestricted by reality).
Moorcock wrote the first Elric stories as a deliberate reversal of the cliches common in Tolkien (British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)) -inspired fantasy adventure novels (which he despised) as well as the work of Robert E. Howard.
Moorcock is a fervent supporter of the works of Mervyn Peake (additional info and facts about Mervyn Peake), and an almost equally fervent detractor of the works of J.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_moorcock.htm   (1527 words)

  
 SF-Bokhandeln: Michael Moorcock
Blandning av historisk roman och sf som visar upp Moorcocks mer litterära sida.
Moorcocks evige hjälte återvänder som Kane från Gamla Mars, en amerikansk fysiker vars experiment slungar iväg honom genom tid och rum, ända till den röda planeten.
Moorcock går i denna essä igenom uppbyggnaden av episka fantasyromaner i sex steg.
www.sfbok.se /sfbok/kat/author/0/447.htm   (1244 words)

  
 Michael Moorcock   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Since the 1980s, Moorcock has tended to write more "respectable" mainstream novels, such as Mother London and Byzantium Endures, which have had positive reviews, but continues to revisit characters from his earlier works, like Elric, with books like The Dreamthief's Daughter or The Skrayling Tree.
Although Moorcock is mostly known for the books mentioned above, he also wrote several stories which are staged on Earth in some million years at the End of Time.
The strange characters inhabiting this world may seem weird at first, but Moorcock's excellency of language and storytelling manage to capture the reader after some pages.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_moorcock.html   (746 words)

  
 The SF Site: An Interview with Michael Moorcock
Moorcock was born in London in 1939 and began writing, illustrating, editing and printing fanzines under the MJM Publications imprint at a young age.
Michael Moorcock may not physically reflect Elric's red eyes and albino colouring, but you will find his echoes reverberating through the Eternal Champion under the surface...
Moorcock's stories always see Elric, with help from his sword Stormbringer, restoring the balance between Chaos and Law.
www.sfsite.com /05b/samm200.htm   (1075 words)

  
 Michael Moorcock
Moorcock wrote scripts for some IPC comics, wrote pulp crime fiction and even sang as a blues singer in night clubs.
Moorcock came in for some pretty severe abuse for turning the magazine around, both from critics and fans.
Moorcock developed a "Multiverse" which allowed him to use a set of characters which were essentially the same but lived in different universes.
www.hairy1.demon.co.uk /psfg/moorcock.htm   (1210 words)

  
 - Moorcock's Miscellany - The Official Michael Moorcock Website
Welcome to Moorcock's Miscellany, so-called because I reprint from time to time articles which interest me or which I've written and correspond with my readers.
I'm sorry that it's impossible for me to carry on long email correspondence with readers, but I can be contacted via the QandA section if you are trying to contact me for a specific reason.
Many people have given their valuable time to create a website for the pleasure of posing questions to Michael Moorcock, meeting people from around the world, and mining the site for information.
www.multiverse.org   (620 words)

  
 Michael Moorcock
The answer to the first question is, Michael Moorcock.
And in the delightful Gloriana; or, The Unfulfilled Queen, a sexual fable set in an Elizabethan alternate universe, Moorcock explores the Elizabethan ideal of social moderation as the perfect balance between Law and Chaos.
With all the diversity in his work, Michael Moorcock must be a fascinating fellow.
alamo-sf.org /lonestarcon2/moorcock.html   (607 words)

  
 Welcome to Dragon*Con! - Welcome to Dragon*Con!
Michael Moorcock and longtime friend Eric Bloom, Blue Oyster Cult's vocalist/guitarist, even jammed onstage, performing the Moorcock-written BOC tunes "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" and "Black Blade" — thus launching live concerts as an annual Dragon*Con tradition.
Starfire Swords donated a broadsword to be presented to Michael Moorcock by the convention.
Later in 1990, we hosted Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison at Georgia Fantasy Con, a smaller mostly-literary event which set the groundwork for the 1992 World Fantasy Convention (held in Pine Mountain, Georgia at the Callaway Gardens resort).
www.dragoncon.org /history.php   (1566 words)

  
 Scriptorium - Michael Moorcock
This section is dedicated to a future Scriptorium Page on Michael Moorcock.
If you are a writer with expertise in the life and works of Michael Moorcock, and you’d be interested in helping The Modern Word expand, please look at the Scriptorium submission guidelines.
Moorcock Page – A small Moorcock site from Sweet Despise.
www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/moorcock.html   (151 words)

  
 Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock is one of Britain's best-known and most respected novelists.
Editor of New Worlds on two occasions, he has won the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Condition of Muzak, the fourth Jerry Cornelius novel.He lives in Texas with his wife.
The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British New Wave in Science Fiction (1983) by Colin Greenland
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /m/michael-moorcock   (802 words)

  
 The Edge online - Contents
Steve Beard, Mark Chadbourn, Paul Di Filippo, Christopher Fowler, Michael Moorcock (see below), Grant Morrison, Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Bridget Penney, Justina Robson, Nicholas Royle, James Sallis, Jason Starr, Peter Whitehead and more, including less well-known authors.
Sample Edgist non-fiction by Michael Moorcock, Christopher Fowler's film column (both are in each issue), Robert Meadley on Diana's funeral, Gerald Houghton and John Coulthart on Kubrick, The Edge's birthday card to the Queen Mother on her 100
Also a major interview, Moorcock on Texas, British and US politics, Norman Spinrad and New Worlds magazine.
www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk   (250 words)

  
 Contents Lists
Lunching With the Anti-Christ Michael Moorcock (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-46-5, Feb ’95, $25.00, 216pp, hc, cover by Phil Hale); Collection of seven interconnected stories, subtitled “A Family History: 1925-2015”, dealing with various families from other Moorcock books.
2 Michael Moorcock (White Wolf 1-56504-177-1, Jan ’95, $19.99, 704pp, hc, cover by Janet Aulisio) [Von Bek]; Omnibus of the “Von Bek” novels: The War Hound and the World’s Pain (Timescape 1981), The City in the Autumn Stars (Grafton 1986), The Dragon in the Sword (Ace 1986), and ’The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius’.
Similar to the 1992 Millennium omnibus, which lacks the new introduction by Moorcock and The Dragon in the Sword.
www.locusmag.com /index/t322.html   (3259 words)

  
 Q&A ◦ Questions for Mike - Moorcock's Miscellany
QandA ◦ Questions for Mike Michael Moorcock invites you to ask questions and discuss aspects of his work, influences and prolific career.
Share news, experiences and information related to all things Moorcock.
Book Signing / Moorcock and Picacio / Dec. 8th
www.multiverse.org /fora/forumdisplay.php?f=11   (289 words)

  
 Audiobooks
Sailor on the Seas of Fate, by Michael Moorcock (5-CD Audiobook set)
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (5-CD Audiobook set)
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www.wildsidepress.com /Audiobooks_c_42.html   (84 words)

  
 The Waiting List (John's Book Pages)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind -- Julian Jaynes
Tibor Kalman -- Peter Hall, Michael Bierut, Tibor Kalman
The War Hound and the World's Pain -- Michael Moorcock
books.regehr.org /indices/waiting.html   (1475 words)

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