Aug 05 2005
Michael Moorcock
Michael was a prolific and well respected science fantasy writer in 1970’s UK. Most of my, boy, high school friends were avid readers of his books. Along with the standard Tolkien & CS Lewis. The book cover artwork was often sold in ‘poster’ format and used by bands as album covers. He even wrote the lyrics to a couple of “Blue Oyster Cult” songs and collaborated on albums with the UK band Hawkwind.
Wikipedia provides an overview at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock
Excerpt:
“Moorcock’s most popular works by far have been the Elric novels, starring the character Elric of Melniboné. Moorcock wrote the first Elric stories as a deliberate reversal of the cliches common in Tolkien-inspired fantasy adventure novels (which he despised) as well as the work of Robert E. Howard. The popularity of Elric has overshadowed his many other works, though he has worked a number of the themes of the Elric stories 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 comprising fifteen books containing several books per volume, by Victor Gollancz in the UK and by White Wolf Publishing in the US.”
I prefered the work of Mervyn Peake. His ‘Letters from a lost uncle‘ was an early favourite childhood bedtime story…
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