Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock (born 1939) is a noted fantasy writer. Perhaps his most famous works are his Eternal Champion series, a series of anti-heroic heroic fantasy novels, most famously centering on the Eternal Champion incarnation Elric of Melniboné. He has been married to two different women involved in SF: Hilary Bailey, also an author, and Jill Riches, an illustrator who did some of the cover art for Moorcock's books.

Moorcock is an anarchist and New Wave writer.

Influences and references

• Mary Gentle has said her White Crow series was inspired by Michael Moorcock, as well as by Joanna Russ's character Alyx.

Further reading

• "Michael Moorcock", Wikipedia
• Colin Greenland, The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (1983)
• Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle (1992; book-length interview)