Michael Moorcock | |
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.jpg) Moorcock in 2012 | |
| Born | Michael John Moorcock (1939-12-18)18 December 1939 (age 85) London, England |
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| Occupation | Novelist, journalist, script writer, musician, editor |
| Period | 1957–present |
| Genre | Science fiction,fantasy,weird fiction |
| Subject | Science fiction (as editor) |
| Literary movement | New Wave science fiction |
| Notable works | The Elric Saga (novels) |
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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, originally ofscience fiction andfantasy, who has published many well-receivedliterary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the characterElric of Melniboné, which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.[1][2]
As editor of the British science fiction magazineNew Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of thescience fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States, leading to the advent ofcyberpunk.[3][4] His publication ofBug Jack Barron (1969) byNorman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament, some British MPs condemned theArts Council of Great Britain for funding the magazine.[5] In 2008,The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatestBritish writers since 1945".[6]
Moorcock is also a recording musician; he has contributed to the music actsHawkwind,Blue Öyster Cult,Robert Calvert andSpirits Burning, and to his own project, Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix.
Michael Moorcock was born inMitcham, Surrey (now Greater London), in December 1939,[7] and the landscape of London, particularly the area ofNotting Hill Gate[8] andLadbroke Grove, is an important influence in some of his fiction (such as theCornelius novels).[9]
Moorcock has mentionedThe Master Mind of Mars byEdgar Rice Burroughs,The Apple Cart byGeorge Bernard Shaw andThe Constable of St. Nicholas byEdwin Lester Arnold as the first three non-juvenile books that he read before beginning primary school.[10] The first book he bought was a secondhand copy ofThe Pilgrim's Progress.[11]
Moorcock is the former husband of the writerHilary Bailey, with whom he had three children: Sophie (b. 1963), Katherine (b. 1964), and Max (b. 1972).[8] Moorcock is also the former husband of Jill Riches, who later marriedRobert Calvert. She illustrated some of Moorcock's books, including covers, among them the dustjacket for the first edition ofGloriana (Allison and Busby, 1978).[12] In 1983, Linda Steele became Moorcock's third wife.[13][14]
He was an early member of theSwordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of eightheroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s and led byLin Carter, selected by fantasy credentials alone.[15]
Moorcock is the subject of four book-length works, a monograph and an interview, byColin Greenland. In 1983, Greenland publishedThe Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction. He followed this withMichael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, a book-length series of interviews with Moorcock about the techniques in his writing, in 1992.Michael Moorcock: Law of Chaos by Jeff Gardiner andMichael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain by Mark Scroggins were published more recently.[citation needed]
In the 1990s, Moorcock moved toTexas in the United States.[16] His wife Linda is American.[17] He spends half of the year in Texas, the other half inParis, France.[8][18]
Moorcock's works feature political content. In one interview, he states, "I am ananarchist and apragmatist. My moral/philosophical position is that of an anarchist."[19] In describing how his writing relates to his political philosophy, Moorcock says, "My books frequently deal with aristocratic heroes, gods and so forth. All of them end on a note which often states quite directly that one should serveneither gods nor masters but become one's own master."[19] Besides using fiction to explore his politics,[16] Moorcock also engages in non-violentpolitical activism. In order to "marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten", he has encouragedW H Smiths to moveJohn Norman'sGor series novels to thetop shelf.[19] For many years he has written for magazines and newspapers of all political stripes, includingThe Times,New Statesman,The Spectator,The Guardian,The Daily Telegraph,The Washington Post,LA Times and many others on all manner of subjects.[citation needed]
Moorcock began writing while he was still at school, contributing to a magazine he entitledOutlaw's Own from 1950 on.[7]
In 1957, at the age of 17, Moorcock became editor ofTarzan Adventures (a national juvenile weekly featuring text and Tarzan comic strip), which had published at least a dozen of his own "Sojan the Swordsman" stories during that year and the next.[20] At the age of 18, in 1958, he wrote the allegorical fantasy novelThe Golden Barge. This remained unpublished until 1980, when it was issued by Savoy Books with an introduction byM. John Harrison. At 19,[9] Moorcock worked onThe Sexton Blake Library, a serialpulp fiction featuringSexton Blake, whichThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction referred to asthe poor man'sSherlock Holmes.[21]
Under Moorcock's leadership,New Worlds became central to "New Wave" science fiction. This movement, not of its own naming, promoted individual vision, literary style and an existential view of technological change, in contrast to generic "hard science fiction",[22] which extrapolated on technological change itself. Some "New Wave" stories were not recognisable as traditional science fiction, andNew Worlds remained controversial for as long as Moorcock edited it. Moorcock claimed that he wanted to publish experimental/literary fiction using techniques and subject matter from generic SF but, initially at least, to marry "popular" and "literary" fiction at what he considered their natural overlap. After 1967, this policy became evident and allied to the British "pop art" movement exemplified byEduardo Paolozzi,Richard Hamilton and others. Paolozzi became "Aviation Editor".[citation needed]
During that time, he occasionally wrote as "James Colvin", a "housepseudonym" originally created for him by John Carnell also used by otherNew Worlds critics. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared inNew Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by Charles Platt as "William Barclay". Moorcock makes much use of the initials "JC"; these are also the initials ofJesusChrist, the subject of his 1967Nebula Award-winningnovellaBehold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, atime-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as a pseudonym, particularly in his "Second Ether" fiction.[citation needed]
Moorcock has also published pastiches of writers for whom he felt affection as a boy, includingEdgar Rice Burroughs,Leigh Brackett, andRobert E. Howard. All his fantasy adventures have elements of satire and parody, while respecting what he considers the essentials of the form. Although his heroic fantasies have been his most consistently reprinted books in the United States, he achieved prominence in the UK as a literary author, with theGuardian Fiction Prize in 1977 forThe Condition of Muzak, and withMother London later shortlisted for theWhitbread Prize.[23]
Novels and series such as theCornelius Quartet,Mother London,King of the City, thePyat Quartet and the short story collectionLondon Bone have established him in the eyes of critics such asIain Sinclair,Peter Ackroyd andAllan Massie in publications includingThe Times Literary Supplement and theLondon Review of Books as a major contemporary literary novelist. In 2008 Moorcock was named by a critics' panel inThe Times as one of the fifty best British novelists since 1945.[6] Virtually all of his stories are part of his overarching "Eternal Champion" theme oroeuvre, with characters (including Elric) moving from one storyline andfictional universe to another, all of them interconnected (though often only in dreams orvisions).[citation needed]
Most of Moorcock's earlier work consisted of short stories and relatively brief novels: he has mentioned that "I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume. That's how, for instance, the Hawkmoon books were written."[24] Over the period of theNew Worlds editorship and his publishing of the original fantasy novels Moorcock has maintained an interest in the craft of writing and a continuing interest in the semi-journalistic craft of "pulp" authorship. This is reflected in his development of interlocking cycles which hark back to the origins of fantasy in myth and medieval cycles (see "Wizardry and Wild Romance – Moorcock" and "Death Is No Obstacle – Colin Greenland" for more commentary). This also provides an implicit link with the episodic origins of literature in newspaper/magazine serials from Trollope and Dickens onwards. None of this should be surprising given Moorcock's background in magazine publishing.[citation needed]
Since the 1980s, Moorcock has written longer, more literary "mainstream" novels, such asMother London andByzantium Endures, but he continued to revisit characters from his earlier works, such as Elric. With the publication of the third and last book in his Elric Moonbeam Roads sequence, he announced that he was "retiring" from writing heroic fantasy fiction, though he continued to write Elric's adventures as graphic novels with his long-time collaboratorsWalter Simonson and the lateJames Cawthorn (1929–2008)[a] and in 2021 announced that he had written a 'straight' Elric novel, within the first canon, for the 60th anniversary of his hero's appearance. He and Simonson produced the graphic novel,Elric: the Making of a Sorcerer, published by DC Comics in 2007. In 2006, he completed his highly praisedColonel Pyat sequence, dealing with the Nazi Holocaust. This began in 1981 withByzantium Endures, continued throughThe Laughter of Carthage (1984) andJerusalem Commands (1992), and culminated withThe Vengeance of Rome (2006). His most recent sequence,KABOUL, with illustrations by Miles Hyman, was published in French by Denoel.[citation needed]
Among other works by Moorcock areThe Dancers at the End of Time, comedies set on Earth millions of years in the future;Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen, which he describes as an argument withSpenser'sThe Faerie Queen, set in analternative Earth history; and the "Second Ether" sequence beginning withBlood, mixing absurdism, reminiscence and family memoir against the background of his multiverse.[citation needed]
Moorcock is prone to revising his existing work, with the result that different editions of a given book may contain significant variations. The changes range from simple retitlings (the Elric storyThe Flame Bringers becameThe Caravan of Forgotten Dreams in the 1990sVictor Gollancz/White Wolf omnibus editions) to character name changes (such as detective "Minos Aquilinas" becoming first "Minos von Bek" and later "Sam Begg" in three different versions of the short story "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius"),[25] major textual alterations (for example, the addition of several new chapters toThe Steel Tsar in the omnibus editions), and even complete restructurings (as with the 1966 novellaBehold the Man being expanded to novel-length and into a novel rather than an SF story recreated from the original version that appeared inNew Worlds for republication as a book in 1969 byAllison and Busby).
A new, final revision of almost Moorcock's entire oeuvre, with the exception of his literary novelsMother London,King of the City and the Pyat quartet, is issued by Gollancz and many of his titles are reprinted in the United States by Simon and Schuster and Titan and in France by Gallimard. Many novels and comics based on his work are being reprinted by Titan Books under the general title The Michael Moorcock Library, while in France a new adaptation of the Elric and Hawkmoon series has been translated into many languages, including English. In 2025Mutter London was published in Germany by Carcosa Verlag.[citation needed]
Moorcock's best-selling works have been the "Elric of Melniboné" stories.[26] In these, Elric is a deliberate reversal ofclichés found in fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works ofJ. R. R. Tolkien.[27]
Central to many of his seminal fantasy novels, including his Elric books, is the concept of an "Eternal Champion", who has multiple identities across alternate universes.[28] Thiscosmology is called the "Multiverse" within his novels. The Multiverse deals with fundamental polarities, such asLaw versusChaos,[27] and order versus entropy.[citation needed]
Elric's success has overshadowed Moorcock's other works, though he has worked the Elric stories' themes into his other works (the "Hawkmoon" and "Corum" novels, for example). His Eternal Champion sequence has been collected in two different editions of omnibus volumes totaling 16 books (the U.S. edition was 15 volumes, while the British edition was 14 volumes, but due to various rights issues, the U.S. edition contained two volumes that were not included in the British edition, and the British edition likewise contained one volume that was not included in the U.S. edition) containing several books per volume, by Victor Gollancz in the UK and byWhite Wolf Publishing in the US. Several attempts to make an Elric film were made. Moorcock refused to resign the options, usually when they seemed to drift too far off course. In February 2019, BBC Studios announced they had secured the rights to the Runestaff series of fantasy novels, which feature Hawkmoon as their hero.[29]
Another of Moorcock's creations isJerry Cornelius, a hip urban adventurer ofambiguous gender; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books. These books were satirical of modern times, including the Vietnam War, and continued to feature another variation of the multiverse theme.[28] The first Jerry Cornelius book,The Final Programme (1968), was made into afeature film in 1973.[30] Its story line is identical to two of the Elric stories:The Dreaming City andThe Dead Gods' Book. Since 1998, Moorcock has returned to Cornelius in a series of new stories:The Spencer Inheritance,The Camus Connection,Cheering for the Rockets, andFiring the Cathedral, which was concerned with 9/11. All four novellas were included in the 2003 edition ofThe Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius. Moorcock's recent Cornelius story, "Modem Times", appeared inThe Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2, published in 2008, this was expanded in 2011 as "Modem Times 2.0"(PM Press). Additionally, a version of Cornelius also appeared in Moorcock's 2010Doctor Who novelThe Coming of the Terraphiles.Pegging the President (PS. 2018),The Fracking Factory (PS, 2018) are two recent novellas,Wigan! (NEW WORLDS 2024) appeared in the magazine's 60th anniversary issue and further stories are forthcoming.[citation needed]
Moorcock is a fervent supporter ofMervyn Peake's works.[31]
Moorcock is critical ofJ. R. R. Tolkien's works. He met both Tolkien andC. S. Lewis in his teens and claims to have liked them personally even though he does not admire them on artistic grounds. Moorcock criticised works such asThe Lord of the Rings for their "Merry England" comfort-fantasy point of view, equating Tolkien's novel to the reassuring tone of BBC Children's Hour, designed to calm children down for bed-time andWinnie-the-Pooh in his essay "Epic Pooh".[32] Even so, James Cawthorn and Moorcock includedThe Lord of the Rings inFantasy: The 100 Best Books (Carroll & Graf, 1988), and their review is not dismissive.[a]
Moorcock has also criticized writers for theirpolitical agendas. He includedRobert A. Heinlein andH. P. Lovecraft among this group in a 1978 essay, "Starship Stormtroopers" (Anarchist Review). There he criticised the production of "authoritarian" fiction by certain canonical writers and Lovecraft for havingantisemitic,misogynistic, andracist viewpoints woven into his short stories.[33]
Moorcock has allowed other writers to create stories in his fictional Jerry Cornelius universe.Brian Aldiss,Hilary Bailey,M. John Harrison,Norman Spinrad,James Sallis, andSteve Aylett have written such stories.[citation needed] In an interview published inThe Internet Review of Science Fiction, Moorcock explains the reason for sharing his character:
I came out of popular fiction and Jerry was always meant to be a sort of crystal ball for others to see their own visions in – the stories were designed to work like that – a diving board, to use another analogy, from which to jump into the river and be carried along by it. [...] All of these have tended to use Jerry the way I intended to use him – as a way of seeing modern life and sometimes as a way of commenting on it. Jerry, as Harrison said, was as much a technique as a character and I'm glad that others have taken to using that method.[34]
Two short stories byKeith Roberts, "Coranda" and "The Wreck of the Kissing Bitch", are set in the frozen Matto Grosso plateau of Moorcock's 1969 novel,The Ice Schooner.[citation needed]
Elric of Melnibone and Moonglum appear inKarl Edward Wagner's story "The Gothic Touch", where they meet withKane, who borrows Elric for his ability to deal with demons.[citation needed]
He is a friend and fan ofcomic book writerAlan Moore and allowed Moore the use of his own character, Michael Kane of Old Mars, mentioned in Moore'sThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II. The two appeared on stage at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London in January 2006 where they discussed Moorcock's work. The Green City fromWarriors of Mars was also referenced inLarry Niven'sRainbow Mars. Jerry Cornelius appeared in Moore'sThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century.[citation needed]
Cornelius also appeared in French artistMœbius' comic seriesLe Garage Hermétique.[citation needed]
In 1995–96, Moorcock wrote a script for a computer game/film/novel byOrigin Systems.[35] When Electronic Arts bought Origins, the game was cancelled, but Moorcock's 40,000-word treatment was fleshed out byStorm Constantine, resulting in the novelSilverheart. The story is set in Karadur-Shriltasi, a city at the heart of theMultiverse. A second novel,Dragonskin, was in preparation, with Constantine as the main writer, but she died in January 2021, after a long illness. Moorcock abandoned a memoir about his friends Mervyn Peake andMaeve Gilmore because he felt it was too personal.[citation needed]
He wrote prose and verse forThe Sunday Books first publication in French to accompany a set of unpublished Peake drawings. His bookThe Metatemporal Detective was published in 2007. His most recent book published first in French isKaboul, in 2018.[citation needed]
In November 2009, Moorcock announced[36] that he would be writing aDoctor Who novel forBBC Books in 2010, one of the few occasions when he has written stories set in other people's "shared universes".[37] The novelThe Coming of the Terraphiles was released in October 2010. The story merges Doctor Who with many of Moorcock's characters from the multiverse, notably Captain Cornelius and his pirates.[38] In 2016 Moorcock published the first novel in what he terms a literary experiment blending memoir and fantasy,The Whispering Swarm. In 2018, he announced his completion of the second volumeThe Woods of Arcady. In 2020, he said he was completing the final Elric novelThe Citadel of Forgotten Myths ready for Elric's 60th anniversary in 2021. Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novellaPegging the President was launched in 2018 atShakespeare and Co, Paris, where he discussed his work withHari Kunzru and reaffirmed his commitment to literary experiment.[citation needed]
The first of anaudiobook series of unabridged Elric novels, with new work read by Moorcock, began appearing from AudioRealms; however,Audio Realms is no longer in business. The second audiobook in the series –The Sailor on the Seas of Fate – was published in 2007. There have been audio-books ofCorum and others, several of which were unofficial andA Winter Admiral andFurniture are audio versions of short stories. Since thenThe Whispering Swarm and theCorum books became available via Audible and all the Elric books were scheduled to appear in audio form to coincide with Simon and Schuster's new illustrated set in 2022.[citation needed]
Moorcock has his own music project, which records under the nameMichael Moorcock & The Deep Fix.The Deep Fix was the title story of an obscure collection of short stories by James Colvin (a pen name of Moorcock) and was the name of theJerry Cornelius band. Moorcock's story had dealt with releasing the unconscious, and although it referenced William Burroughs, it was not specifically about illicit drugs. This allegedly lost the band considerable airplay and gave Moorcock what he called 'a great reputation in the drug community' but made venues and stations wary of booking and playing them. The first albumNew Worlds Fair was released in 1975. The album includedSnowy White, Peter Pavli of The Third Ear Band, regulars Steve Gilmore and Graham Charnock, Moorcock himself on guitars, mandolin and banjo, and a number of Hawkwind regulars in the credits. A second version of theNew Worlds album was issued in 2004 under the album nameRoller Coaster Holiday. A non-album rock single, including Lemmy on bass and Moorcock playing his own Rickenbacker 330/12, "Starcruiser" coupled with "Dodgem Dude", was belatedly issued in 1980 onFlicknife.[citation needed]
Although announced to appear at Dingwalls, the performance was cancelled when schedules clashed. The Deep Fix gave a rare live performance at theRoundhouse, London on 18 June 1978 atNik Turner's Bohemian Love-In, headlined by Turner's band Sphynx and also featuring Tanz Der Youth withBrian James (ex-The Damned),Lightning Raiders,Steve Took's Horns, Roger Ruskin and others.[39]
In 1982, as a trio with Peter Pavli and Drachen Theaker, some Deep Fix recordings were issued onHawkwind, Friends and Relations and a limited-edition 7" single of "Brothel in Rosenstrasse" backed with "Time Centre", which featuredLangdon Jones on piano.[citation needed]In 2008,The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions by Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix was released. These were sessions for planned albums based on two of Moorcock's novels,Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen andThe Entropy Tango, which were never completed. Pavli, Moorcock and Falcone are currently in the process of making the intended versions of those songs based on the group's TEAC recordings of the 80s. They are influenced heavily by modern classical music which they look to for inspiration. Moorcock's considerable range is demanded. Moorcock and Pavli have long been advocates for Mahler, Schoenberg, Ives and other 20th century composers.[citation needed]
Working withMartin Stone, Moorcock began recording a new Deep Fix album in Paris, titledLive at the Terminal Cafe. Following Stone's death in 2016, Moorcock completed the album with producerDon Falcone. In 2019, Moorcock announced the completion of the album, and it was released 11 October 2019, onCleopatra Records.[citation needed]
Moorcock collaborated with the British rock bandHawkwind[40] on many occasions: the Hawkwind track "The Black Corridor", for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock'snovel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their albumWarrior on the Edge of Time,[41]for which he earned a gold disc. Moorcock also wrote the lyrics to "Sonic Attack", a Sci-Fi satire of the public information broadcast, that was part of Hawkwind'sSpace Ritual set. Hawkwind's albumThe Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels. Moorcock appeared on stage with the band on many occasions, including the Black Sword tour. His contributions were removed from the original release of theLive Chronicles album, recorded on this tour, for legal reasons, but have subsequently appeared on some double-CD versions. He can also be seen performing on the DVD version ofChronicle of the Black Sword.[citation needed]
Moorcock also collaborated with former Hawkwind frontman and resident poet,Robert Calvert (who gave the chilling declamation of "Sonic Attack"), on Calvert's albumsLucky Leif and the Longships andHype, playing guitar and banjo and singing background vocals with his wife Linda.[citation needed]
Moorcock wrote the lyrics to three album tracks by the American bandBlue Öyster Cult: "Black Blade", referring to the sword Stormbringer in the Elric books, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars", showing us Elric's emotions at a critical point of his story (this song may also refer to the "Warriors at the Edge of Time", which figure heavily in Moorcock's novels about John Daker; at one point his novelThe Dragon in the Sword they call themselves the "veterans of a thousand psychic wars", although the term is also applied to Elric in 2022's "The Citadel of Forgotten Myths"), and "The Great Sun Jester", about his friend, the poet Bill Butler, who died of a drug overdose. Moorcock has performed live with BÖC (in 1987 at the Atlanta, GADragon Con Convention).[citation needed]
Moorcock contributed vocals and harmonica to theSpirits Burning albumsAn Alien Heat,The Hollow Lands,The End Of All Songs - Part 1, andThe End Of All Songs - Part 2. Most of the lyrics were taken from or based on text in novels from Moorcock'sThe Dancers at the End of Time trilogy. The albums were produced by Spirits Burning leaderDon Falcone, and included contributions fromAlbert Bouchard and other members ofBlue Öyster Cult, as well as former members of Hawkwind.[citation needed]
Moorcock plays harmonica on three songs on the 2021 Spirits Burning albumEvolution Ritual.[citation needed]
Moorcock also appeared on five tracks on the Spirits Burning CDAlien Injection, released in 2008. He is credited with singing lead vocals and playing glockenspiel, guitar and mandolin. The performances used on the CD were fromThe Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions.[citation needed]
Moorcock wrote and narrated the introduction to theSmoulder track "Victims of Fate," which is featured on their 2023 albumViolent Creed of Vengeance.[42]
Moorcock's last public appearance as a music performer was withNik Turner and Flame Tree in Austin, Texas, March 2019.[43][44]
Moorcock is currently[when?] working on a record withAlan Davey, recording some of his own songs and songs byRobert Calvert, his co-performer in Hawkwind. Moorcock is also writing songs with other long-time collaborators.[citation needed]
Michael Moorcock has received great recognition for his career contributions as well as for particular works.[45]
TheScience Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Moorcock in 2002[46] He also received life achievement awards at theWorld Fantasy Convention in 2000 (World Fantasy Award), at theUtopiales International Festival in 2004 (Prix Utopia), from theHorror Writers Association in 2005 (Bram Stoker Award), and from theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2008 (named its 25th Grand Master).[45][47] He is a Parisian member of the London College of Pataphysicians.[citation needed]
He was "Co-Guest of Honor" at the 1976World Fantasy Convention in New York City[51] and one Guest of Honor at the 199755th World Science Fiction Convention inSan Antonio, Texas.
WithMark Hodder he is also writing a series of thrillers set at different times in the 20th century featuring his character The Metatemporal Detective, includingThe Albino's Secret andThe Albino's Honour, which involve a descendant of Elric (possibly Elric himself), published by Simon and Schuster beginning in 2025.
As well as a series ofBest SF Stories from New Worlds andThe Traps of Time (Hart-Davis), Moorcock has also edited other volumes, including two bringing together examples ofpre-1914 invasion literature:
He also editedThe Inner Landscape, featuring novellas by Peake, Aldiss and Ballard.
We've also got a game calledSilver Heart that should be coming out next year. It's going to be an adventure-fantasy in the cinematic fold ofWing Commander, with a script by Michael Moorcock.
