Not only was his fiction a huge part of my younger years, but his literary and political essays made a huge impression on my thinking. I devoured it and read the rest of the Elric series before diving into Moorcock's books about Ulrich von Bek, Jherek Carnelian, Jerry Cornelius, Erekosë, Karl Glogauer and Dorian Hawkmoon – as well as many of his standalone novels, short stories and essays. Nearly three decades ago, a friend handed me a copy of Elric of Melniboné and told me it was required reading. This multi-part interview with the creator of the literary Multiverse only skims the surface of the depth of work created by Mr. The complete list of his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, comic books and musical recordings is almost unbelievably vast. During his first stint as editor of New Worlds (1966-1969), the science fiction magazine was controversial enough to warrant debate in Parliament. Born in London in 1939, Moorcock became editor of Tarzan Adventures at seventeen and published his debut novel at age twenty-three.
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