Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.
"[Moorcock] can gleefully give you all the formulae of every kind
of story there ever was, because he's tried and tested all of them
... the master story-teller of our time."--Angela Carter author of
The Bloody Chamber, and Nights at the Circus
"[Moorcock] is the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British
Fantasy."--Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalaier & Clay, and Telegraph Avenue
"Moorcock as the most important successor to Mervyn Peake and
Wyndham Lewis... The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock
continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a
measure of the author's remarkable talents"--J.G.Ballard, author of
Empire of the Sun, Crash, and The Drowned World
"Moorcock's influence is nothing like Tolkien's, at least on the
surface, but his vision of a speculative-fiction genre that can be
psychologically complex is evident in how very sophisticated some
of it has become--from "True Detective" to Jeff VanderMeer, from
David Mitchell to "Under the Skin."--The New Yorker
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