Michael Moorcock is considered among the most original and influential writers to have emerged from the New Wave of science fiction, an international movement of the 1960s that brought a wide range of...
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Michael Moorcock has established himself at the imaginative forefront of popular writing in the 1960s and 1970s. His editorial work and his own fiction together represent a titanic effort, often again...
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For forty years Michael Moorcock has been an influential presence in English fiction. As a writer, editor, and sponsor of new talent, he has had a great impact on popular writing and in channeling a...
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From his beginnings as a writer of science fiction and heroic fantasy in the early 1960s through his long, idiosyncratic, unclassifiable novels of the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Moorcock has been compar...
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Critical Essay by Bob Shaw
The Condition of Muzak—like The Final Programme, A Cure For Cancer, The English Assassin and some related works—continues Moorcock's harlequinade theme...
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Critical Essay by Peter Ackroyd
Michael Moorcock specialises in fantasies, but his aren't of the jubilant human variety which the Christmas fairy loves. His universe is one which possesses nei...
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Critical Essay by Alastair Fowler
[Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen] represents something of a new departure for Michael Moorcock. Those who admire his ingenuity and creativity but deplore t...
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Critical Essay by Paul Ableman
The trouble with a first-person narrator is that once he is set in motion ('I am a child of my century and as old as the century') he chugs on under his o...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Lively
Michael Moorcock, author of over fifty books, is known mainly for his science fiction works. Byzantium Endures is an historical novel: long, complex, richly peopled,...
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Critical Essay by Gregory Sandow
No writer who lists 12 of his books and then accounts for the rest with a weary "etc. etc." can be all bad. In fact, Michael Moorcock has written far mo...
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Critical Essay by Choice
Best known in the US as a science fiction and fantasy writer, Michael Moorcock proves in Byzantium Endures both his versatility as a fiction writer and the mastery of his cra...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[An Alien Heat is set] in the twilight of human history (many thousand centuries hence), where a refined and decadent society, equally reminiscent of W...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[The Land Leviathan] is a fantasy about how, in an alternative twentieth century, Black Power finally ends up ruling the world. Stated thus the story w...
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Critical Essay by Ron Kirk
Is [Michael Moorcock's The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius] the overdue last instalment of the Cornelius saga (The Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, The English...
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Critical Essay by Nick Totton
[The Adventures of Una Persson …] is all resonance: like the whole 'Jerry Cornelius' sequence of novels and stories, it is an attempt at portraiture...
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Critical Essay by Nick Totton
'This was a gift-wrapped, throwaway age, Mr Cornelius. Now the gift-wrapping is off, it's being thrown away.' And through the debris stalks Jerry Co...
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Critical Essay by Bob Shaw
