Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is a writer, author of many Romance fantastic and Science-fiction; he was born the December 18th 1939 with Mitcham, close to London

In 1957, he becomes editor association of the review Tarzan Adventures , then in 1964, director of the review New Worlds .

Parallel to its literary career, Moorcock collaborates with several rock groups, like the Bellyflops, Hawkwind and Blue Öyster Cult.

In 1962, it marries Hilary Bailey. They have two girls in 1963, Katherine and Sophie, then in 1971, a son, Max.

Its works, energy of the Fantasy to the Space operated while passing by the Uchronie, have a certain number of common topics, like the fight of the order against chaos, the presence of prototypes, like that of the hero, called the “Champion eternal”, whose Elric or Hawkmoon is only the incarnations, the structure of the universe (the Multivers) in parallel worlds where the things occur in a similar but nonidentical way, involving little by little increasingly thorough differences.

The Uchronie is present with the trilogy of novels Oswald Bastable . Moorcock imagines a world whose technology would have remained blocked on the steam engine like engine and the airships like combat and means of transport.

For its works, it obtained (inter alia), 3 Prix Hugo and a Prix Nebula.

The sagas of Elric and Hawkmoon were the subject of an adaptation in Roleplays (respectively Stormbringer (which then became Elric ) and Hawkmoon ).

French works

  • the Legend of Hawkmoon

    • the black jewel
    • the insane god
    • the sword of the dawn
    • the secrecy of the runes
    • the count bronze
    • the champion of Garathorm
    • the search of Tanelorn

  • Books of Corum

    • the knight of the swords
    • the queen of the swords
    • the king of the swords
    • the lance and the bull
    • the oak and the ram
    • the sword and the standard
besides

  • dancers of the end of time

    • a heat come
    • hollow grounds
    • end from all the songs
    • Legends of the end of time (collection of news)

  • the Pact of Von Beck

    • the dog of war and the pain of the world
    • the city of stars of autumn
    • the girl of the robber of dream

  • the warrior of Mars

    • the city of the animal
    • Masters of the pit
    • the lord of the spiders

  • Oswald Bastable , Uchronie

    • the lord of the airs
    • the steel tsar
    • the léviathan of the grounds

  • Others

    • play of blood - Galaxy-(a) N°50, 1976
    • Voici the man
    • the ship of the ices
    • smashes It Glogauer
    • Byzance 1917
    • the house of Rosenstrasse
    • the stone of obstacle
    • the barge of gold
    • Gloriana or the unsatiated queen
    • Mother London
    • the banks of the twilight
    • Souvenirs of the third world war
    • Déjeuner of business with the Antichrist (collection of news)
    • the rider Chaos (anthology)
    • Heart of Money , with Storm Constantine
    • play of blood (The blood red range)

Hard rock

Michael Moorcock wrote the words of two songs of the group of Hard rock Blue Öyster Cult:

  • Black Blade (album Cultösaurus Erectus , 1980)
  • Veteran off the Psychic Wars (album Fire off Unknown Origin , BOF of the film Metal howling , 1981)

It also appears on the album Warrior one the Edge off Time of the English group Hawkwind, group with which it also collaborated for the development of the album “The Chronicle off the Black Sword”, based on the saga of Elric, like for several isolated songs, either as lyric writer or as singer (in particular on the albums Zones and Sonic Attack).

It also appears on double CD and the DVD “Live Chronicle”, recorded during the promotional tour of the album previously quoted, as narrator. Hawkwind is quoted several times in its works: " In Dead Singer" , " the english assassin"

Lastly, with some members of Hawkwind, it founds the group “Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix” with which it will leave two 45 turns " Dodgem dude/Star cruiser" and " Brothel in rosenstrasse/Time center" as well as an album, " The New World' S Fair" , apocalyptic disc on which he sings, plays of the guitar and the mandoline, and of which he signs a good part of the texts. “Deep Fix” is also quoted in the adventures of Jerry Cornelius…

One can also note his participation in the disc " Lucky Leif and The longships" of Robert Calvert (a member of Hawkwind), disc produced by Brian Eno; Robert Calvert at the origin of the character is described in the news The Opium General. Jill Riches was successively married in Calvert and Moorcock.

Lastly, during a time, one (double?) album had been announced to appear under the title " Mother London/Queen off the City" and finally never the day saw…

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External bonds

  • Erwelyn.com Multivers and Mondes Parallel: bibliography set of themes (Literature, cinema, data base, youth, Series…)

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