Contains short stories, including "The Greater Conqueror", "The Deep Fix", "My Experience in the Third World War", "The Golden Barge" and "The Time Dweller".
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Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.
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Moorcock's determination to remain himself, warts and all, means that he hasn't dumped his old, rough self (the way Rushdie did with Grimus, for
instance, or Ballard did with Wind From Nowhere) and so you get the lot -- the teenager's squibs done for newspapers and pulp magazines -- and the literary subtleties of 'Third World War' and others. Most of Moorcock's literary fiction is collected in books like London Bone, but this is well worth it just for the gorgeous pulp fantasy stories alone. His story about Alexander, The Greater Conqueror, was done for an existing magazine cover. It reminds us of the author's profound interest in history and philosophy -- and what a damned good S&S Opera he could produce from his earliest years. Moorcock is one of our greatest national treasures and the media no longer seems to notice just how good he is -- and how good he's been for forty years or more! More complex and inventive than Tolkien, at his best he rises to consistent flights of language which are amongst the finest in modern English fiction. You might not see exactly why Ackroyd rates him so highly from this, but you will get a notion of why Angela Carter called him 'the master storyteller of our time'.
instance, or Ballard did with Wind From Nowhere) and so you get the lot -- the teenager's squibs done for newspapers and pulp magazines -- and the literary subtleties of 'Third World War' and others. Most of Moorcock's literary fiction is collected in books like London Bone, but this is well worth it just for the gorgeous pulp fantasy stories alone. His story about Alexander, The Greater Conqueror, was done for an existing magazine cover. It reminds us of the author's profound interest in history and philosophy -- and what a damned good S&S Opera he could produce from his earliest years. Moorcock is one of our greatest national treasures and the media no longer seems to notice just how good he is -- and how good he's been for forty years or more! More complex and inventive than Tolkien, at his best he rises to consistent flights of language which are amongst the finest in modern English fiction. You might not see exactly why Ackroyd rates him so highly from this, but you will get a notion of why Angela Carter called him 'the master storyteller of our time'.
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I'm new to Moorcock's work, though have been reading quite a bit since I started. This is an excellent introduction. It contains a complete novel (his first -- The Golden Barge) which owes a debt to Mervyn Peake, plus a rich variety of almost every kind of story, showing Moorcock's range as well as his development. The perfect introduction to Moorcock -- though by no means his best book which remains for me Mother London (and Dancers at the End of Time for fantasy!). There really has to be something for everyone in this huge collection of novel, novellas and short stories. PS Some of it's very funny, too! ET
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This is an interesting collection of stories by Moorcock. They cover his marvellous from the beginning to the present day. Most stories are superb. SOme of the Sci-fi stuff isn't that exilerating, but you could buy this book solely to get Moorcock's wonderful Babel pastiche: Some Reminiscenes from the Third World War. Great stuff! No one is better than Moorcock. No one.
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This is probably a very good introduction to Mr Moorcock's broad range of fiction because it has everything from the wildest fantasy to the most ordinary reality. This is worth getting for the 'Third World War' stories themelves, which end with the famous 'Crossing into Cambodia'. Strange forms of courage in even stranger circumstances, celebrating the human spirit and still examining the variety and depth of the human condition. London Bone is a better written collection, but this is a better sampler of Moorcock's work from the 'fifties to the 'nineties.
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