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By Michael Moorcock at Sun, 2006-07-09 23:57

Welcome to Moorcock's Miscellany, so-called because I reprint from time to time articles which interest me or which I've written and correspond with my readers. I'm sorry that it's impossible for me to carry on long email correspondence with readers, but I can be contacted via the Q&A section if you are trying to contact me for a specific reason. Many answers to general questions can be found in the FAQ. Pictures of books, magazines which I have edited, foreign editions and so on can also be found in the Image Hive. You can get additional information about my work in the Wikiverse.

Information about forthcoming books, short stories, graphic novels, movies, games or features, as well as book signings and so on can usually be found in the the Q&A section of this site. From time to time, either to support various charities or to support this site, we run auctions, usually of scarcer books and other material by me.


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By Reinart der Fuchs at Wed, 2006-06-14 12:13

Welcome to Moorcock's Miscellany
Bienvenue chez Moorcock
Herzlich willkommen bei Elric, Falkenmond, Jerry Cornelius & Co.
iHola! Rinconcito de los hispanoparlantes
Multiverso in Italia
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By The Cosmic Balance at Tue, 2008-04-29 03:58
Michael Moorcock was presented with the 25th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for 2008 award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA®) in a presentation at last weekend's SFWA Nebula Awards®. Present to see Mike receive the award were friends and family as well as a contingency from Moorcock's Miscellany.

John Picacio introduced the award, saying "We're here to celebrate Mike's recognition amongst the Grandmasters of the Science Fiction Writers of America... Many great writers are measured by what came before them, but Mike's greatness continues to be measured by what has come after him. I'm not talking about his legendary Multiverse of characters and stories, but a multiverse of writers, artists, and creators worldwide that have either had their careers single-handedly launched by Mike, or been directly influenced by him at a primal level."
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By The Cosmic Balance at Fri, 2008-03-28 03:54
Michael Moorcock's wife Linda has sent an us update on Mike's 'clean up' surgery that was scheduled for yesterday (March 27th), which can be read here. As ever, all of us at Moorcock's Miscellany continue to wish Mike and Linda all the very best and hope for a rapid healing period.
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By The Cosmic Balance at Tue, 2008-03-25 15:44
The latest Elric story by Michael Moorcock - 'Black Petals' - is to be published in the April 2008 issue of Weird Tales (#349).

Although Moorcock announced the 2005 Elric novel The White Wolf's Son would be his "final" fantasy novel, he continues to produce stories set in Elric's world of the Young Kingdom in a form reminiscent of the original Elric stories that appeared in Science Fantasy magazine in the early '60s. 'The Roaming Forest', featuring Rakhir the Red Archer, was published in Cross Plains Universe (Monkeybrain, 2006) and 'A Portrait in Ivory', featuring Elric, appeared in Logorrhea (Bantam, 2007).

Weird Tales #349 also features their 85 Weirdest Storytellers list, which includes Michael Moorcock.
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By The Cosmic Balance at Tue, 2008-03-25 14:17
Weird Tales magazine has selected Michael Moorcock as one of their 85 most influential storytellers to work their magic on the world since the magazine's birth in 1923. The final list of authors and artists - including New Worlds alumni such as J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs, Philip K. Dick and Mervyn Peake - was announced at Norwescon 31 and appears in the April 2008 issue of Weird Tales (#349).

The full list, celebrating the magazine's 85th anniversary, can be viewed here.

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By The Cosmic Balance at Sat, 2008-03-22 17:06
'Modem Times', the first new Jerry Cornelius story by Michael Moorcock in nearly two years, which Moorcock describes as "a long-ish novella", has been published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume 2 (978-1-84416-542-1), published by Solaris price £7.99.

Jerry Cornelius first appeared in New Worlds in 1965 as a variation on Moorcock's earlier character, Elric, but went on to feature in numerous short stories and five novels in his own right. In 1977 the final novel in the Jerry Cornelius Quartet - The Condition of Muzak - won the Guardian Fiction Award. Described as "more a technique than a character", in the '70s Jerry Cornelius explored various social issues, including the Vietnam War. In recent years, Moorcock has returned to using Cornelius to examine a post-Diana, post-9/11 world in stories su
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By The Cosmic Balance at Wed, 2008-03-19 20:29
Michael Moorcock has reported that following a recent bout of flu after his last operation further surgery on his foot may be required:
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Sorry to rollercoaster on this but I'm back from hospital with bad news. I need another operation to cut off some more foot. So, only 3 weeks after the last, I'm going to be under the knife, actually the saw, again. Getting sick immediately after the stitches came out wasn't helpful. At the moment I feel as if this crap is unending.
Mike says the doctors will "watch it until early next week" before deciding what treatment is needed, but we all at Moorcock's Miscellany send Mike and Linda our very best wishes and hopes for a successful outcome.
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By The Cosmic Balance at Thu, 2008-03-06 20:27
Michael Moorcock will be appearing in the final part of the BBC4 documentary series The Worlds of Fantasy due to air on Wednesday 12th March 2008.

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The Worlds of Fantasy
3/3. Through the Looking Glass

Looking at how in the last ten years, fantasy has been one of the biggest forces in popular culture, across all media from books to interactive computer games.

Terry Pratchett explains the allure of Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings, and Michael Moorcock explains how Fantasy was influenced by 60s drugs culture and was part of underground cultures way of looking at the world.
Broadcast details: BBC 4 Wednesday 12th March @ 21:00 (repeated 00:00 & 02:30)
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By The Cosmic Balance at Sun, 2008-03-02 11:27
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2008


A two day conference hosted by The Association for Research into Popular Fictions in association with the University of East Anglia and the University of Hull on Saturday 5th July – Sunday 6th July 2008.

This conference hopes to explore the rich and varied writings of Michael Moorcock's fictions whilst providing a rounded picture of the writerly environments Moorcock has developed in by contextualising his work alongside his many other social involvements and his interactions with other writers. As such this conference is focused upon developing a critical appreciation of Moorcock's best known and most loved writings in combination with an appreciation of his historical development as a writer. To this end we welcome papers which tread across the boundaries of genre which Moorcock himself trod and also welcome papers which relate Moorcock to the circles of friends and associates whose writings and work connect to his own. We hope that this will provide a lively and multiplicitous series of discursive responses to Moorcock’s remarkable body of works.
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