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Michael Moorcock


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
December 18, 1939

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

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


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 N ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 293,387 ratings · 16,532 reviews · 1,228 distinct works • Similar authors
Elric of Melniboné (The Elr...
3.88 avg rating — 32,159 ratings — published 1972 — 97 editions
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The Sailor on the Seas of F...
3.91 avg rating — 13,205 ratings — published 1976 — 63 editions
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The Weird of the White Wolf...
3.92 avg rating — 11,535 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions
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Stormbringer (The Elric Sag...
4.18 avg rating — 10,532 ratings — published 1965 — 55 editions
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The Vanishing Tower (The El...
3.96 avg rating — 10,043 ratings — published 1970 — 55 editions
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The Bane of the Black Sword...
4.01 avg rating — 8,299 ratings — published 1977 — 37 editions
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Behold the Man
3.75 avg rating — 8,513 ratings — published 1969 — 63 editions
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The Fortress of the Pearl (...
3.75 avg rating — 6,062 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions
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The Elric Saga Part I (Elri...
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Elric of Melniboné The Fortress of the Pearl The Sailor on the Seas of Fate Elric at the End of Time The Weird of the White Wolf The Vanishing Tower The Revenge of the Rose
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Von Bek The Eternal Champion The History of the Runestaff The Swords Trilogy Sailing to Utopia A Nomad of the Time Streams The Dancers at the End of Time
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An Alien Heat The Hollow Lands The End of All Songs Legends from the End of Time A Messiah at the End of Time Elric at the End of Time
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The Knight of the Swords The Queen of the Swords The King of the Swords
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“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”
― Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls
tags: best-sellers, fantasy-genre, ideas, inspiration, popularity, self-deprication
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“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
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