Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock is a British science fiction and fantasy author, poet, and songwriter.

Michael Moorcock achieved recognition and some notoriety as the instigator of the so-called "New Wave" movement in science fiction as the editor of New Worlds magazine, which featured stories with strong social, satirical, and dystopian views of the future of the world and the British Empire specifically. Internationally, he achieved fame with his Elric of Melniboné character and series of books featuring an amoral, emotionally tortured, albino sorcerer-king in a addictive relationship with his sentient, evil sword. The Elric books are also part of Moorcock's "Multiverse" canon, wherein characters from different books and settings cross paths and are seen as different incarnations of the same being, an "Eternal Champion."

• Stormbringer
• The Final Programme
• The War Hound and the World's Pain
• The Metatemporal Detective

• December 18, 1939: Born in London, England

• 1964: Becomes editor of science fiction magazine New Worlds

• 1966: Wins Nebula Award

• 1978: Wins John W. Campbell Memorial Award

• 1988: Mother London shortlisted for Booker Prize

• 1995: Moves from England to Texas

• 2000: Is elected to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame

• 2004: Wins Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2008: Voted Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

• • SciFan: Michael Moorcock Complete Bibliography
• 1966: Behold the Man
• 1969: The Black Corridor
• 1971: The Warlord of the Air
• 1977: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
• 1978: Gloriana
• 1981: The War Hound and the World's Pain
• 1988: Mother London
• 1996: The War Amongst the Angels
• 1999: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
• 2003: The Skrayling Tree
• 2007: The Metatemporal Detective