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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: 3.92 · 287,240 ratings · 15,786 reviews · 1,209 distinct works • Similar authors

	Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 31,110 ratings — published 1972	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) 3.91 avg rating — 12,809 ratings — published 1976	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) 3.93 avg rating — 11,246 ratings — published 1977	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 — 10,376 ratings — published 1965 — 4 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) 3.96 avg rating — 9,869 ratings — published 1970 — 3 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 — 8,133 ratings — published 1977 — 2 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: A Time Traveler’s Quest to Become the Messiah—The Nebula-Winning New Wave Science Fiction Classic 3.76 avg rating — 8,276 ratings — published 1969 — 62 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) 3.76 avg rating — 5,748 ratings — published 1989 — 3 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 — 4,762 ratings — published 1984 — 5 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,071 ratings — published 1977 — 26 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

3.93 avg rating — 96,249 ratings

Tale of the Eternal Champion (14 books)
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Michael Moorcock

4.04 avg rating — 27,153 ratings

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

3.91 avg rating — 13,004 ratings

The Swords Trilogy (3 books)
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Michael Moorcock

3.94 avg rating — 12,383 ratings

The Michael Moorcock Collection (1 book)
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Michael Moorcock

3.76 avg rating — 5,747 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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Polls

May-June Groupread topics (top two usually win)

Elric of Melniboné series by Michael Moorcock

Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1) by Michael Moorcock

10 votes, 21.7%

Ill Met in Lankhmar and any other Fritz Leiber

Ill Met in Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1-2) by Fritz Leiber

9 votes, 19.6%

Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One or any other Harold Lamb

Wolf of the Steppes The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One by Harold Lamb

5 votes, 10.9%

The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien

4 votes, 8.7%

Dark of the Gods or any other P.C. Hodgell

Dark of the Gods (Kencyrath, #1-2) by P.C. Hodgell

3 votes, 6.5%

Michael Moorcock (write-in)

3 votes, 6.5%

The Last Magicians by John Jakes

2 votes, 4.3%

Ill Met in Lankhmar/Fritz Leiber (write-in)

2 votes, 4.3%

Ill Met In Lankhmar (write-in)

2 votes, 4.3%

Ill met in Lankhmar (write-in)

2 votes, 4.3%

Shadow by K.J. Parker

1 vote, 2.2%

Wolves of the Steppes (write-in)

1 vote, 2.2%

Shadow by K.J. Parker (write-in)

1 vote, 2.2%

A Voyage to Arcturus (write-in)

1 vote, 2.2%

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

0 votes, 0.0%

46 total votes

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