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Michael Moorcock (b. 1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s. As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction “New Wave” in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He is also a successful recording musician, contributing to the band Hawkwind, and his own project.

1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction “New Wave” in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.

Finally, one of the true classics in the sword and sorcery genre gets the deluxe presentation that it has always deserved For starters, let's begin at the beginning with thanks to two editorial geniuses one in the UK and one in the US he 1950s was the heyday of the digest magazine, the successor to the pulps of a previous era.

There were a lot less titles published as the digest magazines had a new and formidable competitor for entertainment in leisure hours, more and more homes were installing televisions and while the most obvious victim of the TV revolution was the movie theater, the printed word and the expense of same was also having a rough go of it s is often the case there were blessings in disguise, the 1930s and 1940s saw the worst aggregate of bad fantasy and science fiction to ever see print Editors were so desperate to fill magazines that even some of the worst hacks of the time bragged about placing 90% of their output.

N the era of the digests, editors were having none of it and dozens of the old guard fell by the wayside losing their positions to writers who could actually write In England, New Worlds garnered a lot of attention, but real fans knew that the best stuff would find its way to John Carnell's Science Fantasy n the U. S., there was no denying the supremacy of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, but editor Cele Goldsmith had quietly turned Fantastic and Amazing from bottom-feeders to impressive publications featuring great science fiction in one and remarkably good fantasy in the other.

It should surprise no one that Michael Moorcock immediately found a home for his Elric stories with Carnell's Science Fantasy; we Yanks had to wait about a year longer for Ms oldsmith to start publishing him The early Elric stories were gathered in a Lancer paperback under the title of Stealer of Souls, this led to a follow-up novel Stormbringer which apparently brought things to their logical conclusion ndeed, there's an anarchistic raging against the machine in the early Elric stories that is almost palpable to the point that there are more than a few of us scholars of the genre who believe that Moorcock needed his time with the pioneers of space-rock, Hawkwind, just to mellow out a tad… What Michael Mooorcock has done is evolve from the angry young man who gave us Stealer of Souls to the witty and sophisticated author who is now considered one of our greatest living fantasists, and the Elric character has grown with him Moorcock simply realized that there was far more to Elric's story and how he grew from the spoiled princeling with a huge sense of entitlement to the doomed and noble figure he becomes in the end hat we have in Fortress of the Pearl is Moorcock now at the height of his prowess as a novelist revisiting the early history of a young Elric The stories and novels that Moorcock wrote to fill in the blanks in the Elric saga are very obviously necessary pieces of the puzzle that had been left out ithout these revisions, it is literally impossible for the Elric of Stealer of Souls to become the Elric of Stormbringer These are archival editions, with gorgeous illustrations and featuring guest introductions from some of the top writers in the field ach volume will be signed by the author, introducer and artists Ordering the three books, Elric of Melniboné, The Fortress of the Pearl, and The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, via the “add to cart” button at right will secure all matching numbers for every book in the series he complete contents pages of each book are shown below The titles, contents, and order of the works appear, for the first time, exactly as Michael Moorcock has long intended, making these the most definitive sets of these books ever made available he Fortress of the Pearl includes the novel of the same name and one novella” “The Black Blade's Song.” It also has an introduction by Neil Gaiman and new artwork by Tom Kidd Information on The Fortress of the Pearl.

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External Links

• The Fortress of the Pearl. Centipede Press page for The Fortress of the Pearl
• Michael Moorcock (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Michael Moorcock