Michael Moorcock
Also known as Bill Barclay, William Ewert Barclay, Edward P. Bradbury, James Colvin, Warwick Colvin, Jr., Philip James, Hank Janson, Desmond Reid
English writer, editor, critic (born 1939)
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- Born
- 18 December 1939
- Works
- 781
Top works
- The sword of the dawn
- The city of the beast
- The best SF stories from New Worlds,#2
- The Book of Corum
- McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
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- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, originally of science fiction and fantasy, who has published many 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 avant garde/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".
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