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Michael Moorcock

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Born: December 17 1939

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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 Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.

During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 , written by "William Barclay" . Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-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 yet another pseudonym, particularly in his "Second Ether" fiction.

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Michael Moorcock

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Books from Michael Moorcock

Elric of Melniboné

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

The Weird of the White Wolf

Stormbringer

The Vanishing Tower

Dangerous Visions

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Behold the Man

City of Saints and Madmen

The Elric Saga Part I

Elric at the End of Time

The Dancers at the End of Time

The Fortress of the Pearl

Elric: Tales of the White Wolf

The Jewel in the Skull

The Knight of the Swords

The Swords Trilogy

The Queen of the Swords

The Revenge of the Rose

Elric: The Stealer of Souls