The Best Of Michael Moorcock

The Best Of Michael Moorcock

by Michael Moorcock and John Davey
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 17/03/2024

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Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can. Library Journal He is the master storyteller of our time. Angela Carter Michael Moorcock: Legendary author of the Elric saga, Science Fiction Grand Master, platinum album receiving rock star, and controversial editor of the new wave fiction movement s New Worlds. In this definitive collection, discover the incomparable stories of one of our most important contemporary writers. These exceptional stories range effortlessly from the genre tales that continue to define fantasy to the author s critically acclaimed mainstream works. Classic offerings include the Nebula Award winning novella Behold the Man, which introduces a time traveler and unlikely messiah that H.G. Wells never imagined; The Visible Men, a recent tale of the ambiguous and androgynous secret agent Jerry Cornelius; the trilogy My Experiences in the Third World War, where a Russian agent in an alternate Cambodi

ISBN:
9781616963125
9781616963125
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-03-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tachyon Publications
Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize.

In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award; in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame; and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix; and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave.

Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric. He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris.

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