Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (Mitcham, Surrey, 18 december 1939) is a British writer and Editor of science fiction and fantasy (particularly high fantasy). He also has a number of literary novels published and became known as a publisher of a comic magazine. Moorcock has also collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind and theAmerican Blue Öyster Cult; He wrote lyrics and has also participated in performances.

He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956 when he was only sixteen years old. As editor of the controversial British science fictionmagazine New Worlds from May 1964 until March 1971 and from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the New Wave in SF, both in the UK and indirectly in the United States.

In the year 1957 he sold his first short story Saini the Swordsman and a year later his first novel. He was inspired at that time on writers like Mervyn Peake, Kafka, Thomas Mann and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Much of his work plays in a "multiverse", with parallel worlds in which developments are analogous but not identical take place. In all these parallel worlds is the same "Eternal hero" (Eternal Champion) for, with Elric, Hawkmoon as examples and that play an important role in maintaining the balance in the battle of order against chaos. ==Prices[ Edit] == In addition to a number of British Fantasy Awards Moorcock has the following important awards:

==Partial bibliography[ Edit] == Moorcock has more than sixty books to his credit. Some major ones include:
 * 1957 Hugo Award for the magazine New Worlds
 * 1967 Nebula Award for the novel Behold the Man
 * 1979 John w. Campbell Memorial Award for Gloriana
 * 1979 World Fantasy Award for Gloriana
 * 2000 World Fantasy Award for his life's work
 * 2008 Damon Knight Grand Master Award


 * Behold the Man (1968) nl:see the man
 * The Black Corridor (1969) en:Emigrants for Utopia
 * The Ice Schooner en:The ijsschoener (1969)
 * The Jewel in the Skull (1972-from Hawkmoonserie) nl:the jewel in the skull
 * An Alien Heat (1972) nl: unknown fire
 * The Hollow Lands (1975) en: The empty land
 * Legends from the End of Time (1975)
 * The End of All Songs (1976) en: the last dance
 * Gloriana (1978) nl: Gloriana
 * My Experiences in the Third World War (1979)
 * Mother London (1988)
 * The Dancers at the End of Time (1996)
 * King of the City (2000)
 * Cities (2004-with Paul Di Filippo, China Miéville, Geoff Ryman and Peter Crowther)
 * Between the Wars series
 * Byzantium Endures (1981)
 * The Laughter of Carthage (1984)
 * Jerusalem Commands (1992)
 * The Vengeance of Rome (2005)
 * Elric series according to the internal chronology:
 * Elric of Melniboné (1972) en:Storm over Melniboné
 * The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
 * The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
 * The Dreaming City (1961)
 * While the Gods Laugh (1961)
 * The Singing Citadel (1967)
 * The Sleeping Sorceress (also The Vanishing Tower) (1971) en:Storm over Tanelorn
 * The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
 * Stealer of Souls (1963)
 * Stormbringer (1965)
 * In 2004 a new completed Moorcock Elric trilogy:
 * The Dreamthief's Daughter (2001)
 * The Skrayling Tree (2003)
 * The White Wolf's Son (2005)
 * Jerry Cornelius series
 * The Final Programme (1968) nl:God from the machine and en: Extreme programming
 * The English Assassin (1972) nl: The coma refugee
 * A Cure for Cancer (1971) en: Fragmentation summer
 * The Condition of Muzak (1977) nl: condition of Muzak
 * The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)
 * The Entropy Tango (1981)
 * The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century (1976)
 * Von Bek series
 * The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982)
 * The War Hound and the world's Pain (1981)
 * The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)