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Michael Moorcock

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

December 18, 1939

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 N ...more

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Michael Moorcock’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 267,118 ratings · 13,551 reviews · 1,036 distinct works • Similar authors

	Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 28,651 ratings — published 1972 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (The Elric Saga, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 11,835 ratings — published 1976 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #6) 4.18 avg rating — 9,941 ratings — published 1965 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weird of the White Wolf (The Elric Saga, #3) 3.95 avg rating — 10,444 ratings — published 1977 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 9,398 ratings — published 1970 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bane of the Black Sword (The Elric Saga, #5) 4.02 avg rating — 7,748 ratings — published 1977 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behold the Man 3.77 avg rating — 7,632 ratings — published 1969 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elric Saga Part I (Elric Saga, #1-3) 4.10 avg rating — 4,643 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fortress of the Pearl (The Elric Saga, #8) 3.78 avg rating — 4,933 ratings — published 1989 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dancers at the End of Time (Eternal Champion, #10) 3.99 avg rating — 3,987 ratings — published 1977 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Michael Moorcock

Elric Chronological Order (13 books)
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Michael Moorcock

3.94 avg rating — 89,713 ratings

Tale of the Eternal Champion (14 books)
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Michael Moorcock

4.05 avg rating — 25,933 ratings

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

3.91 avg rating — 12,600 ratings

The Swords Trilogy (3 books)
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Michael Moorcock

3.94 avg rating — 11,551 ratings

Karl Glogauer (2 books)
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3.76 avg rating — 8,020 ratings

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Quotes by Michael Moorcock (?)

“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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Vote for Groupread Topic(s) for Sept-Oct 2014. Recent groupreads have been single topic, but this time we'll revert back to the "two topics" for "two months" style again. Vote to steer the discussion! The top 2 topics win. Write-in suggestions always welcome (enter in the "Your Choice" field).

Swords sans Sorcery (i.e. historical heroic fiction, Harold Lamb)...topic submitted by Joseph

9 votes, 29.0%

Michael Moorcock's Elric

8 votes, 25.8%

Forgotten Realms books

5 votes, 16.1%

Warhammer Black Library works (Old World or 40,000)

2 votes, 6.5%

Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales

2 votes, 6.5%

An obscure work, title to be determined (i.e. we rediscovered Ramsey Campbell's Ryre...what else is out there?)

1 vote, 3.2%

Graphic Novels & Comics (i.e., Slaine: Warrior's Dawn,The Savage Sword of Conan, Red Sonja)

1 vote, 3.2%

Any book with Frank Frazetta coverart

1 vote, 3.2%

Soloman Kane stories by Robert E. Howard (write-in)

1 vote, 3.2%

Harold Lamb! (write-in)

1 vote, 3.2%

31 total votes

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