The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Moorcock in 2002, its seventh class of two deceased and two living writers. edition) containing several books per volume, by Victor Gollancz in the UK and by White Wolf Publishing in the US.
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 was 15 volumes, while the British edition was 14 volumes, but due to various rights issues, the U.S. His Eternal Champion sequence has been collected in two different editions of omnibus volumes totaling 16 books (the U.S.
And Elric appears in the Jerry Cornelius and Dancers at the End of Time cycles. The Multiverse deals with primal polarities such as good and evil, law and chaos, and order and entropy.Įlric’s success has overshadowed his other works, though he has worked the Elric stories’ themes into his other works (the “Hawkmoon” and “Corum” novels, for example). This cosmology is called the “Multiverse” within his novels. Tolkien.Ĭentral to many of his fantasy novels, including his Elric books, is the concept of an “Eternal Champion”, who has multiple identities across alternate universes. In these, Elric is a deliberate reversal of clichés found in fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of J. Michael Moorcock’s best-selling works have been the “Elric of Melniboné” stories. He is also a recording musician, contributing to the bands Hawkwind, Blue Öyster Cult, Spirits Burning, and his own project, Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix. His publication of Bug Jack Barron (1969) by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious in Parliament, some British MPs condemned the Arts Council for funding the magazine. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and ’70s.Īs editor of the 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, leading to the advent of cyberpunk. Michael John Moorcock (1939 – ) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.
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