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	Michael Moorcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moorcock's introduction to his experimental novel Breakfast in the Ruins referring the fiction as the text of a manuscript found after the "late" author's death was a literary device taken literally by some readers.
		Moorcock wrote the first Elric stories as a deliberate reversal of the clichés common in the fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (work that Moorcock despises) as well as the work of Robert E. Howard (which he seems to admire and respect, instead).
		In 1997, Moorcock was one of the guests of honor at the Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas and as Guest of Honour at the World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Christi, Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Moorcock (2331 words)

	Michael Moorcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His protaganists are Moorcock, a skinny, confused white guy adrift in a world torn between the forces of Chaos and Law, be they the wish-fulfillment counter culture James Bond-ism of Jerry Cornelius or the whining frailty of the albino barbarian Elric.
		Moorcock attempted to put a personalized figure at the center of a New (if sometimes shabby) Mythology, in which a complex and alienated protaganist would ritually join the struggle between Chaos and Order.
		The entire scope of Moorcock's fiction is a strange metafiction, deeply interactive, in which consciously archetypical characters and events vie in an unending struggle.
	www.strangewords.com /moorcock1.html (680 words)

	Ralph Willett- Moorcock's Achievement and Promise in the Jerry Cornelius Books
		Moorcock lacks William Burroughs’ accurate and devastating satire, and his verbal experiments have been less radical, but in both artists can be observed a basic dissatisfaction with linear methods of representing space and time, a surreal sense of co-existing multiple worlds, and an emphasis on apocalyptic disaster.
		Moorcock’s eclecticism is a facet of his work that the reader cannot escape; echoes of other writers abound, even if the final result and total effect are Moorcock’s own.
		Moorcock lacks William Burroughs’s accurate and devastating satire and his verbal experiments have been less radical, but in both artists can be observed a basic dissatisfaction with linear methods of representing space and time, a surreal sense of co-existing multiple worlds, and an emphasis on apocalyptic disaster.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/8/willett8art.htm (1578 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » The Age of Chaos
		As a ‘literary’ writer Moorcock shows artistic ability in his myth-making and story-telling; his creation of intriguing characters; the subtle irony and ornate vocabulary; an exploitation of metaphor and allegory; and his presentation of imaginary landscapes and emotional relationships.
		Moorcock’s influence on speculative fiction is evaluated and the Eternal Champion—Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon, Ereköse and Von Bek are assessed.
		Moorcock successfully creates memorable characters and mystical landscapes using irrepressible wit and exotic language reminding us all just how fantasy continues to be one of literature’s sharpest tools, as well as the key to developing the imagination.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/ageofchaos/2 (605 words)

	The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) - Michael Moorcock
		Cornelius, of course, lives on elsewhere: Moorcock created the template, but never fixed the characters's identity, and freed him to be used by others as well.
		Moorcock also incorporates newspaper-quotes as chapter headings and epigraphs, an effective and telling counterpoint of reality and fiction.
		Michael Moorcock, born in 1939, is a prolific British author.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/moorcock/cchron.htm (733 words)

	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)

	The English Assassin - Michael Moorcock
		It is clearly not out of admiration: here and elsewhere in the book Moorcock is expressing his disappointment in the age and those in positions of authority and influence.
		Moorcock acknowledges changing the names of those involved (to prevent causing further distress to "parents and relatives"), but says: "No other part of the quotation has been altered." It is a gruesome and disturbing litany, periodically breaking up the book and serving well to shake up the reader.
		Moorcock writes well here, and though the storylines shift and fade (it is a "romance of entropy", after all) it does work quite well as an adventure-action saga as well.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/moorcock/englisha.htm (658 words)

	Barbelith: Comic Books: Morrison's debt to Moorcock
		The answer lies in Moorcock's exaggerated use of an individual literary conceit, for he has elected to declare that virtually all heroes who are encountered in his books (and there are over 70 of them, in a mass of different genres and styles) are merely aspects of a greater, archetypal Hero, who represents them all.
		Cornelius, in essence, is allowed by Moorcock to travel only to worlds where the rule of Order has become so stultifying that a vital injection of Chaos (even one as radical as destroying an entire planet) is needed to counterbalance it.
		Moorcock's theory that each 'Champion' fights an individual fight within a separate universe leads naturally to his concept that there are a mutiplicity of possible worlds.
	www.barbelith.com /cgi-bin/articles/00000009.shtml (890 words)

	Amazon.ca: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is a classic Moorcock irony, to bury much of the core material of his multiverse theories in a graphic novel.
		Moorcock will hide the key to a theme in a rock and roll song, a comic book or a throw-away newspaper piece but sooner or later, if you read for long enough, you'll come across it -- or it won't matter, because sometimes you didn't even know there WERE answers to those questions.
		Moorcock is a rather verbose author with a tendency for flourish and poetry.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1563895161 (1585 words)

	A Michael Moorcock Omnibus
		Where Moorcock differs from so many other writers, most notably Tolkien and his host of imitators, is that his heroes are not always very noble, and some of them are not really very nice people at all, although Moorcock claims he didn't really conceive of Elric as an anti-hero.
		Moorcock is really, in many respects, working in the mode of the nineteenth-century novel, which a number of writers of contemporary fantasy have tried with mixed results, although seldom positive.
		Moorcock is also either terrifically erudite, or he fakes it really, really well, and that's another facet of his weaving: not only the strands of his own histories, but strands of the histories, legends and mythologies of our own reality are embedded in the stories.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_moorcock_omnibus.html (1298 words)

	Michael Moorcock's Elric, where to start? - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Later Moorcock wrote the novel Revenge of the Rose, I think it was called, and then The Skrayling Tree, both of which I have not read, as well as some other stories Elric shows up in, but it's best to read those first 6 books in that order to start.
		Moorcock’s ‘Eternal Champion’ premise (one man standing between the forces of Law and Chaos) is genuinely novel and fascinating.
		If you are looking for obscure Moorcock books (the occasional auction or sale is posted) or for discussions about his work, Moorcocks website (www.multiverse.org) is pretty good (although I can't stand the endless discussions of fantasy casting for an Elric movie).
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=84259 (3613 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » The Age of Chaos
		Michael Moorcock is one of Britain’s greatest writers and he is possibly the most consistently experimental author in the world of fantasy literature.
		Clute does, however, suggest that Moorcock is ‘altogether the most significant UK author of sword and sorcery’ and it is probably for his Eternal Champion novels that he will be most widely remembered.
		Moorcock has about a hundred books to his name, some of which are republished and retitled editions of earlier works, and this can prove bewildering to the uninitiated.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/ageofchaos/1 (566 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
		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 is well know for his ability to recycle his characters and concepts into a variety of forms.
		Eventually, as Moorcock's protagonists close in on Silverskin, their stories become more closely wrapped together in the manner with which Moorcock has always combined his characters.
	www.sfsite.com /04a/mmm78.htm (893 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Michael Moorcock
		Moorcock's Elric stories, with the melancholy albino hero Elric of Melnibone and his supernatural chaos-inducing sword Stormbringer, were published intermittently beginning in 1965 and constitute Moorcock's first consequential work.
		Among Moorcock’s noteworthy science fiction work thereafter is the Karl Glogauer series, which includes the Nebula award-winning Behold the Man (1969), the Oswald Bastable books (1971-81) and the far-future Dancers at the End of Time series (1972-89).
		Moorcock continues even today to simultaneously exploit and dramatically expand the typical topics and settings of science fiction.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=61 (362 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: The Momentous Moorcock: A True Buckaroo's 60th Birthday
		Moorcock's tireless creativity and his enormous capacity for friendship -- these were two dominant themes of the evening, themes borne out in speeches as well as in a festschrift, Moorcock@60.com, which Linda put together for her husband.
		The way Moorcock was so at home with his body, she told me, his utter lack of prudishness, appealed to Linda.
		The Moorcock charm evidently holds up very well, and the Texas part of it seems to be accepted now as a commitment more than a passing phase.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:75459 (1200 words)

	BookPeople \| The Largest Bookstore in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Moorcock first rode unto the public consciousness when, after a ten year editing career for other British pulps, he became the editor of New Worlds in 1964 at the age of 24.
		Moorcock's melancholy and streetwise character would later inspire the anarchistic and bleak future of the cyberpunks.
		As Michael Moorcock, editor and writer, enters the sixth decade of his professional life, his outlook and work remains as fresh and diverse as the day he began.
	www.bookpeople.com /infobook.html?isbn=1885418175 (1118 words)

	Silverheart by Michael Moorcock & Storm Constantine - Official sffworld.com review
		Michael Moorcock is truly a living legend in the genre of speculative fiction, having garnered numerous awards throughout his career.
		Moorcock puts his name to is above the standard fare of the genre, and while this may be considered a minor effort in his otherwise grand bibliography, it is still a worthy novel.
		I think I would, there was enough connection to Moorcock’s Multiverse to satisfy his long-standing fans (such as myself); however, the story stood well-enough on its own, without a strong enough connection to those stories for readers unfamiliar with the saga to be lost.
	www.sffworld.com /brevoff/221.html (775 words)

	Michael Moorcock Interview
		Michael Moorcock is, of course, well-known as a popular science fiction writer, the author of the Elric series, as well as several other cycles of books.
		Few, however, know of Moorcock as a musician whose career in London's fertile underground of the '60s and '70s saw the birth of such bands as Hawkwind and Mötorhead, and fewer still are familiar with Moorcock the political thinker.
		Moorcock was gracious to answer some of our questions about his career, his philosophies, and his life.
	www.corporatemofo.com /stories/Moorcock1.htm (1098 words)

	Michael Moorcock \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Moorcock: I think that he is probably, of all of my fantasy heroes, all of my epic heroes, he's the one who most embodies my own ideas, my own struggles, my own sort of psyche...
		Moorcock: I used to be the Moorcock section, and this is unfortunate.
		Moorcock: To some extent, the kind of writers I hung out with then are the very same kind of writers I hang out with now.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw6814.html (3597 words)

	THE CORNELIUS QUARTET, Michael Moorcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The books were originally banned in Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Italy, and Burma, among other places, due to the highly sexed, violent, and seeming amoral antics of their central protagonist.
		Moorcock's hero later became the inspiration for the film The Crow, the Luther Arkwright graphic novels, and Alan Moore's "Watchmen" graphic novels, among many other cutting-edge endeavors.
		Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939.
	www.4w8w.com /bookmoorcock1.html (293 words)

	Michael Moorcock - Collaborator of Robert Calvert
		M.M. Michael Moorcock, born in 1939 is best known for his enormous literary output, especially in the fields of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
		Most characters of Moorcock's books are drawn from the densely crowded, heterogenous population, of his immediate surrounding of Ladbroke Grove, containing a lot of immigrants from all parts of the world.
		And like many others of Moorcock's protagonists, Jerry, the chiqué underground dandy-subversive, moves around in the adventurous, decaying landscape of London.
	aural-innovations.com /robertcalvert/collab/collabmain/moorcock.htm (2195 words)

	Locus: Michael Moorcock interview
		Moorcock was a songwriter and member of various rock banks, including Hawkwind and Deep Fix, in the 60s and later.
		Moorcock's series eventually became intertwined as a single "Multiverse", with characters appearing in various incarnations in various books.
		Moorcock won the Nebula for "Behold the Man" (1967), the Campbell Memorial and World Fantasy Awards for the ambitious literary/fantasy novel Gloriana: or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1978), and numerous others.
	www.locusmag.com /1997/Issues/11/Moorcock.html (485 words)

	Amazon.com: The Skrayling Tree: The Albino in America (Aspect Fantasy): Books: Michael Moorcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Moorcock brings his Eternal Champion mythos to early North America, as seen through the eyes of both the native tribes and the immigrant Vikings.
		Though Moorcock has explored this in great detail in many of his previous works, the dialogue here is as thought provoking and stimulating as in any of the previous novels.
		Moorcock's theories based on Mandelbrot's Chaos theories give us characters of physically different sizes as they merge from different parts of the multiverse.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446613401?v=glance (2697 words)

	[ Ant ] Michael Moorcock ◁ Elric of Melniboné ◁ Favourite Things ◁ About Ant
		Moorcock went beyond mere imitation and began to find his own voice as a writer in the stories of Erekosë, the Eternal Champion.
		Moorcock was one of the first British writers to work in the sword and sorcery genre.
		Moorcock’s books have won many awards and he received a British Fantasy special committee award in 1993 and the World Fantasy Life Achievement award in 2000.
	homepage.mac.com /antallan/moorcock.html (279 words)

	Michael Moorcock - Collaborator of Robert Calvert - part II
		Moorcock in his own words on his performances and his feelings about those early Hawkwind days
		After these recordings with Pavli, Moorcocks musical activities seems to have come more or less to a hold - but surely enough his output as a writer hasn't decreased for a bit.
		However, Moorcock did some rare guest-appearances with Hawkwind (via sattelite-phone during their 30th anniversary show) and appeared on-stage at a Nik Turner gig in 1995, when the latter was doing a gig in Moorcock's now-hometown Austin, Texas.
	www.aural-innovations.com /robertcalvert/collab/collabmain/moorcock2.htm (2270 words)

	The SF Site: An Interview with Michael Moorcock
		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.
		Moorcock's eleven stories of Elric, the Eternal Champion have been recently optioned by Universal Studios.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/samm200.htm (1075 words)

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