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Michael Moorcock

  • Michael John Moorcock
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Moorcock, Michael
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Date of birth
1939-12-18
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Mitcham

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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.

As editor of the 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, leading to the advent of cyberpunk. His publication of Bug Jack Barron (1969) by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament, some British MPs condemned the Arts Council of Great Britain for funding the magazine. In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Moorcock is also a recording musician; he has contributed to the music acts Hawkwind, Blue Öyster Cult, Robert Calvert and Spirits Burning, and to his own project, Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix.

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English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

Series:
• Between the Wars (aka Colonel Pyat, or Pyat Quartet)
• Corum which consists of two sub-series:
- The Swords Trilogy
- The Chronicles of Corum
• Eternal Champion (aka Erekosë)
• Hawkmoon which consists of two sub-series:
- The History of the Runestaff
- The Chronicles of Castle Brass
• Jerry Cornelius
• Karl Glogauer
• Oswald Bastable
• Sailing to Utopia
• Second Ether
• The Elric Saga
• The End of Time which also consists of two sub-series:
- Dancers at the End of Time
- Tales from the End of Time
• Von Bek
• Warriors of Mars

Last modified: 2020-10-19 (revision #34677)

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Goodreads Author ID
16939
ISNI
0000 0000 8175 3119
LibraryThing Author
moorcockmichael
MusicBrainz Artist ID
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OpenLibrary Author ID
OL394285A
VIAF
109785773
Wikidata ID
Q316138

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