Michael Moorcock

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born

December 18, 1939 in London, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.multiverse.org/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

influences

Poul Anderson, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord Dunsany, Rob...more

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Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. 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. His serialization of...more

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Books by Michael Moorcock

Average rating: 3.84 · 53,995 ratings · 2,635 reviews · 331 distinct works

	Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 5,128 ratings — published 1972 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Stormbringer (Elric, #6) 4.07 avg rating — 2,457 ratings — published 1965 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Weird of the White Wolf (Elric, #3) 3.91 avg rating — 2,433 ratings — published 1977 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Vanishing Tower (Elric, #4) 3.89 avg rating — 2,430 ratings — published 1971 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Elric, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 2,446 ratings — published 1976 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Bane of the Black Sword (Elric, #5) 3.96 avg rating — 1,963 ratings — published 1977 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Elric Saga Part I (Elric Saga, #1-3) 4.04 avg rating — 1,083 ratings	My rating:
	Behold the Man 3.78 avg rating — 1,193 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Eternal Champion (Eternal Champion, #1) by Michael Moorcock, Tom Canty (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 973 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Elric at the End of Time (Elric, #7) 3.78 avg rating — 1,013 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Series by Michael Moorcock

Eternal Champion (15 books)
by Michael Moorcock

3.89 avg rating — 6,533 ratings

Corum (6 books)
by Michael Moorcock

3.95 avg rating — 4,214 ratings

Tale of the Eternal Champion (14 books)
by Michael Moorcock

3.91 avg rating — 3,630 ratings

Dancers at the End of Time (6 books)
by Michael Moorcock

3.83 avg rating — 3,123 ratings

The History of the Runestaff (4 books)
by Michael Moorcock

3.81 avg rating — 2,997 ratings

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Quotes by Michael Moorcock

“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
― Michael Moorcock

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“Time is the enemy of identity”
― Michael Moorcock

tags: identity , time

16 people liked it

“Treasures are not won by care and forethought
but by swift slaying and reckless attack.”
― Michael Moorcock

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Its time for the final run-off for the June Fantasy selection. Which one will we read?

Stealing the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane

5 votes 38.5%

The White Wolf's Son: The Albino Underground by Michael Moorcock

4 votes 30.8%

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

4 votes 30.8%

13 total votes

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