Michael Moorcock

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Michael Moorcock (born 1939) is a noted critic, editor, and fantasy writer, part of the "New Wave" of science fiction writers in the 1970s. 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 identifies as an anarchist,[1] and many of his works demonstrate an anarchist worldview. Many of Moorcock's characters exhibit an androgynous characteristic, or are impliedly bisexual. Moorcock has himself engaged in some kinds of feminist action: Lobbying English bookstores to move John Norman's Gor books to a less accessible location, to "marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten".

Moorcock has similarly critiqued Robert A. Heinlein and H. P. Lovecraft, among others, as authoritarians; see "Starship Stormtroopers".


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  1. ↑ Margaret Killjoy, Mythmakers and Lawbreakers (AK Press, 2009).
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