Michael Moorcock is a British science fiction and fantasy author, poet, and songwriter.
Career
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."
Notable Works
Michael Moorcock Personal Timeline
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
Michael Moorcock Publications Timeline
- 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