Michael Moorcock Writer
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.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 publication of Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament some British MPs condemned the Arts Council for funding the magazine.In 2008, The Times newspaper named Moorcock in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Alias (AKA) | Colvin James; Colvin Warwick Jr.; and many other pseudonyms |
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Pseudonym | Bill Barclay Desmond Reid Edward P. Bradbury Hank Janson James Colvin Philip James Warwick Colvin Jr. William Ewert Barclay Michael Barrington (with Barrington J. Bayley) |
Birth date | December 18, 1939 |
Birth name | Michael John Moorcock |
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Career start | 1957 |
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Michael Moorcock on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://efanzines.com/EK/eI25/index.htm#hitler
- http://efanzines.com/EK/eI35/index.htm#blitz
- http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html
- http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2007/10/michael-moorcock-answers-questions-five.html
- http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/Moorcock.htm
- http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/dworkin
- http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2002_jun/interview_michael_moorcock.html
- http://www.ballardian.com/angry-old-men-michael-moorcock-on-jg-ballard
- http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=848
- http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/michael-moorcock