Michael Moorcock
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Born | Michael John Moorcock 18 December 1939 London, England |
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Occupation | Novelist, journalist, script writer, musician, editor |
Period | 1957–present |
Genre | New Wave science fiction |
Notable works | New Worlds (as editor) Mother London Pyat Quartet (novels) |
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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an
As editor of the British science fiction magazine
In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[5]
Biography
Michael Moorcock was born in London in December 1939,[6] and the landscape of London, particularly the area of Notting Hill Gate[7] and Ladbroke Grove, is an important influence in some of his fiction (such as the Cornelius novels).[8]
Moorcock has mentioned The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edwin Lester Arnold as the first three non-juvenile books that he read before beginning primary school.[9] The first book he bought was a secondhand copy of The Pilgrim's Progress.[10]
Moorcock is the former husband of the writer
He was an early member of the
Moorcock is the subject of four book-length works, a monograph and an interview, by
In the 1990s, Moorcock moved to Texas in the United States.[16] His wife Linda is American.[17] He spends half of the year in Texas, the other half in Paris.[7][18]
Political views
Moorcock's works feature political content. In one interview, he states, "I am an
Writer
Fiction
Moorcock began writing while he was still at school, contributing to a magazine he entitled Outlaw's Own from 1950 on.[6]
In 1957, at the age of 17, Moorcock became editor of Tarzan Adventures (a national juvenile weekly featuring text and Tarzan comic strip), which had published at least a dozen of his own "Sojan the Swordsman" stories during that year and the next.[20] At the age of 18, in 1958, he wrote the allegorical fantasy novel The Golden Barge. This remained unpublished until 1980, when it was issued by Savoy Books with an introduction by M. John Harrison. At 19,[8] Moorcock worked on The Sexton Blake Library (serial pulp fiction featuring Sexton Blake, the poor man's Sherlock Holmes).[21]
Under Moorcock's leadership, New Worlds became central to "New Wave" science fiction. This movement, not of its own naming, promoted individual vision, literary style and an existential view of technological change, in contrast to generic "hard science fiction",[22] which extrapolated on technological change itself. Some "New Wave" stories were not recognisable as traditional science fiction, and New Worlds remained controversial for as long as Moorcock edited it. Moorcock claimed that he wanted to publish experimental/literary fiction using techniques and subject matter from generic SF but, initially at least, to marry "popular" and "literary" fiction at what he considered their natural overlap. After 1967, this policy became evident and allied to the British "pop art" movement exemplified by Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and others. Paolozzi became "Aviation Editor".
During that time, he occasionally wrote as "James Colvin", a "house
Moorcock talks about much of his writing in Death Is No Obstacle with Colin Greenland, which is a book-length transcription of interviews with Moorcock about the techniques in his writing.
Moorcock has also published pastiches of writers for whom he felt affection as a boy, including
Novels and series such as the
Most of Moorcock's earlier work consisted of short stories and relatively brief novels: he has mentioned that "I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume. That's how, for instance, the Hawkmoon books were written."[24] Over the period of the New Worlds editorship and his publishing of the original fantasy novels Moorcock has maintained an interest in the craft of writing and a continuing interest in the semi-journalistic craft of "pulp" authorship. This is reflected in his development of interlocking cycles which hark back to the origins of fantasy in myth and medieval cycles (see "Wizardry and Wild Romance – Moorcock" and "Death Is No Obstacle – Colin Greenland" for more commentary). This also provides an implicit link with the episodic origins of literature in newspaper/magazine serials from Trollope and Dickens onwards. None of this should be surprising given Moorcock's background in magazine publishing.
Since the 1980s, Moorcock has written longer, more literary "mainstream" novels, such as
Among other works by Moorcock are
Moorcock is prone to revising his existing work, with the result that different editions of a given book may contain significant variations. The changes range from simple retitlings (the Elric story The Flame Bringers became The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams in the 1990s
A new, final revision of almost Moorcock's entire oeuvre, with the exception of his literary novels Mother London, King of the City and the Pyat quartet, is issued by Gollancz and many of his titles are reprinted in the United States by Simon and Schuster and Titan and in France by Gallimard. Many novels and comics based on his work are being reprinted by Titan Books under the general title The Michael Moorcock Library, while in France a new adaptation of the Elric and Hawkmoon series has been translated into many languages, including English.
Elric of Melniboné and the Eternal Champion
Moorcock's best-selling works have been the "Elric of Melniboné" stories.[26] In these, Elric is a deliberate reversal of clichés found in fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.[27]
Central to many of his seminal fantasy novels, including his Elric books, is the concept of an "
Jerry Cornelius
Another of Moorcock's creations is Jerry Cornelius, a hip urban adventurer of ambiguous gender; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books. These books were satirical of modern times, including the Vietnam War, and continued to feature another variation of the multiverse theme.[28] The first Jerry Cornelius book, The Final Programme (1968), was made into a feature film in 1973.[30] Its story line is identical to two of the Elric stories: The Dreaming City and The Dead Gods' Book. Since 1998, Moorcock has returned to Cornelius in a series of new stories: The Spencer Inheritance, The Camus Connection, Cheering for the Rockets, and Firing the Cathedral, which was concerned with 9/11. All four novellas were included in the 2003 edition of The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius. Moorcock's most recent Cornelius stories, "Modem Times", appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2, published in 2008, this was expanded in 2011 as "Modem Times 2.0". Additionally, a version of Cornelius also appeared in Moorcock's 2010 Doctor Who novel The Coming of the Terraphiles. Pegging the President (PS. 2018), The Fracking Factory (on FB, 2018) are two recent novellas and further stories are forthcoming.
Views on fiction writing
Moorcock is a fervent supporter of Mervyn Peake's works.[31]
Moorcock is critical of J. R. R. Tolkien's works. He met both Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in his teens and claims to have liked them personally even though he does not admire them on artistic grounds. Moorcock criticised works such as The Lord of the Rings for their "Merry England" point of view, equating Tolkien's novel to Winnie-the-Pooh in his essay "Epic Pooh".[32] Even so, James Cawthorn and Moorcock included The Lord of the Rings in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (Carroll & Graf, 1988), and their review is not dismissive.[a]
Moorcock has also criticized writers for their
Sharing fictional universes with others
Moorcock has allowed other writers to create stories in his fictional Jerry Cornelius universe. Brian Aldiss, Hilary Bailey, M. John Harrison, Norman Spinrad, James Sallis, and Steve Aylett have written such stories. In an interview published in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Moorcock explains the reason for sharing his character:
I came out of popular fiction and Jerry was always meant to be a sort of crystal ball for others to see their own visions in – the stories were designed to work like that – a diving board, to use another analogy, from which to jump into the river and be carried along by it. [...] All of these have tended to use Jerry the way I intended to use him – as a way of seeing modern life and sometimes as a way of commenting on it. Jerry, as Harrison said, was as much a technique as a character and I'm glad that others have taken to using that method.[34]
Two short stories by Keith Roberts, "Coranda" and "The Wreck of the Kissing Bitch", are set in the frozen Matto Grosso plateau of Moorcock's 1969 novel, The Ice Schooner.
Elric of Melnibone and Moonglum appear in Karl Edward Wagner's story "The Gothic Touch", where they meet with Kane, who borrows Elric for his ability to deal with demons.
He is a friend and fan of comic book writer Alan Moore and allowed Moore the use of his own character, Michael Kane of Old Mars, mentioned in Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II. The two appeared on stage at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London in January 2006 where they discussed Moorcock's work. The Green City from Warriors of Mars was also referenced in Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars. Moorcock's character Jerry Cornelius appeared in Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century.
Cornelius also appeared in French artist Mœbius' comic series Le Garage Hermétique.
In 1995–96, Moorcock wrote a script for a computer game/film/novel by
He wrote prose and verse for The Sunday Books first publication in French to accompany a set of unpublished Peake drawings. His book The Metatemporal Detective was published in 2007. His most recent book published first in French is Kaboul, in 2018.
In November 2009, Moorcock announced[36] that he would be writing a Doctor Who novel for BBC Books in 2010, one of the few occasions when he has written stories set in other people's "shared universes".[37] The novel The Coming of the Terraphiles was released in October 2010. The story merges Doctor Who with many of Moorcock's characters from the multiverse, notably Captain Cornelius and his pirates.[38] In 2016 Moorcock published the first novel in what he terms a literary experiment blending memoir and fantasy, The Whispering Swarm. In 2018, he announced his completion of the second volume The Woods of Arcady. In 2020, he said he was completing the final Elric novel The Citadel of Forgotten Myths ready for Elric's 60th anniversary in 2021. Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novella Pegging the President was launched in 2018 at Shakespeare and Co, Paris, where he discussed his work with Hari Kunzru and reaffirmed his commitment to literary experiment.
Audiobooks
The first of an audiobook series of unabridged Elric novels, with new work read by Moorcock, began appearing from AudioRealms; however, Audio Realms is no longer in business. The second audiobook in the series – The Sailor on the Seas of Fate – was published in 2007. There have been audio-books of Corum and others, several of which were unofficial and A Winter Admiral and Furniture are audio versions of short stories. Since then The Whispering Swarm and the Corum books became available via Audible and all the Elric books were scheduled to appear in audio form to coincide with Simon and Schuster's new illustrated set in 2022.
Music
Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix
Moorcock has his own music project, which records under the name Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix. The Deep Fix was the title story of an obscure collection of short stories by James Colvin (a pen name of Moorcock) and was the name of the Jerry Cornelius band. Moorcock's story had dealt with releasing the unconscious, and although it referenced William Burroughs, it was not specifically about illicit drugs. This allegedly lost the band considerable airplay and gave Moorcock what he called 'a great reputation in the drug community' but made venues and stations wary of booking and playing them. The first album New Worlds Fair was released in 1975. The album included Snowy White, Peter Pavli of The Third Ear Band, regulars Steve Gilmore and Graham Charnock. Moorcock himself on guitars, mandolin and banjo, and a number of Hawkwind regulars in the credits. A second version of the New Worlds album was issued in 2004 under the album name Roller Coaster Holiday. A non-album rock single, including Lemmy on bass and Moorcock playing his own Rickenbacker 330/12, "Starcruiser" coupled with "Dodgem Dude", was belatedly issued in 1980 on Flicknife.
Although announced to appear at Dingwalls, the performance was cancelled when schedules clashed. The Deep Fix gave a rare live performance at the Roundhouse, London on 18 June 1978 at Nik Turner's Bohemian Love-In, headlined by Turner's band Sphynx and also featuring Tanz Der Youth with Brian James (ex-The Damned), Lightning Raiders, Steve Took's Horns, Roger Ruskin and others.[39]
In 1982, as a trio with Peter Pavli and Drachen Theaker, some Deep Fix recordings were issued on
Working with Martin Stone, Moorcock began recording a new Deep Fix album in Paris, titled Live at the Terminal Cafe. Following Stone's death in 2016, Moorcock completed the album with producer Don Falcone. In 2019, Moorcock announced the completion of the album, and it was released 11 October 2019, on Cleopatra Records.
With Hawkwind
Moorcock collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind[40] on many occasions: the Hawkwind track "The Black Corridor", for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time,[41] for which he earned a gold disc. Moorcock also wrote the lyrics to "Sonic Attack", a Sci-Fi satire of the public information broadcast, that was part of Hawkwind's Space Ritual set. Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels. Moorcock appeared on stage with the band on many occasions, including the Black Sword tour. His contributions were removed from the original release of the Live Chronicles album, recorded on this tour, for legal reasons, but have subsequently appeared on some double-CD versions. He can also be seen performing on the DVD version of Chronicle of the Black Sword.
With Robert Calvert
Moorcock also collaborated with former Hawkwind frontman and resident poet, Robert Calvert (who gave the chilling declamation of "Sonic Attack"), on Calvert's albums Lucky Leif and the Longships and Hype, playing guitar and banjo and singing background vocals with his wife Linda.
With Blue Öyster Cult
Moorcock wrote the lyrics to three album tracks by the American band
With Spirits Burning
Moorcock contributed vocals and harmonica to the Spirits Burning albums An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1. Most of the lyrics were taken from or based on text in novels from Moorcock's The Dancers At The End Of Time trilogy. The albums were produced by Spirits Burning leader Don Falcone, and included contributions from Albert Bouchard and other members of Blue Öyster Cult, as well as former members of Hawkwind.
Moorcock plays harmonica on three songs on the 2021 Spirits Burning album Evolution Ritual.
Moorcock also appeared on five tracks on the Spirits Burning CD Alien Injection, released in 2008. He is credited with singing lead vocals and playing glockenspiel, guitar and mandolin. The performances used on the CD were from The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions.
Other appearances
Moorcock's last public appearance as a music performer was with Nik Turner and Flame Tree in Austin, Texas, March 2019.
Moorcock is currently working on a record with Alan Davey, recording some of his own songs and songs by Robert Calvert, his co-performer in Hawkwind. Moorcock is also writing songs with other long-time collaborators.
Awards and honours
Michael Moorcock has received great recognition for his career contributions as well as for particular works.[42]
The
He is a Parisian member of the London College of Pataphysicians.- 1993: British Fantasy Society Special Committee Award[42] for contribution to the genre[45]
- 2000: World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement[46]
- 2004: Prix Utopiales "Grandmaster" Lifetime Achievement Award[42]
- 2004: Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in the horror genre[47]
- 2008: Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, literary fantasy and science fiction[44]
He was "Co-Guest of Honor" at the 1976
- Awards for particular works[42]
- 1967: Nebula Award (Novella): Behold the Man
- 1972: August Derleth Fantasy Award: The Knight of the Swords[49]
- 1973: August Derleth Fantasy Award: The King of the Swords[50]
- 1974: British Fantasy Award (Best Short Story): The Jade Man's Eyes
- 1975: August Derleth Fantasy Award: The Sword and the Stallion[51]
- 1976: August Derleth Fantasy Award: The Hollow Lands[52]
- 1977: Guardian Fiction Award: The Condition of Muzak[53]
- 1979: John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: Gloriana[54]
- 1979: World Fantasy Award (Best Novel): Gloriana[54]
Selected works
- The Best of Michael Moorcock (Tachyon Publications, 2009)
- The Elric of Melniboné series (1961–2022), including:
- The Dreaming City (1961)
- The Stealer of Souls (1963)
- Stormbringer (1965, revised 1977)
- Elric of Melniboné (1972)
- Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
- The Weird of the White Wolf (1977)
- The Vanishing Tower (1977)
- Elric at the End of Time (1981)
- The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
- The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
- The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (2022)
- The Dorian Hawkmoonseries (1967–1975), including:
- The Jewel in the Skull (1967)
- The Mad God's Amulet (1968)
- The Sword of the Dawn (1968)
- The Runestaff (1969)
- Count Brass (1973)
- The Champion of Garathorm (1973)
- The Quest for Tanelorn(1975)
- The Erekosëseries (1970–1987), including:
- The Eternal Champion (1970)
- Phoenix in Obsidian, aka The Silver Warriors (1970)
- The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell (with Howard Chaykin) (1979) (graphic novel)
- The Dragon in the Sword (1987)
- The Corum series (1971–1974), including:
- The Knight of the Swords (1971)
- The Queen of the Swords (1971)
- The King of the Swords (1971)
- The Bull and the Spear (1973)
- The Oak and the Ram (1973)
- The Sword and the Stallion (1974)
- Behold the Man (1969)
- Breakfast in the Ruins (1972)
- The Time Dweller (1969)
- Sailing to Utopia, comprising:
- Flux (1962)
- The Ice Schooner (1966)
- The Black Corridor (1969)
- The Distant Suns (1975)
- The Wrecks of Time, aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967)
- The Sundered Worlds, aka The Blood Red Game (1965)
- The Fireclown, aka The Winds of Limbo (1965)
- The Twilight Man, aka The Shores of Death (1966)
- Kane of Old Mars (1998 compilation volume originally published as three books in 1965, 346pp)
- The Lost Canal (novelette) (2013)
- The Chinese Agent (1970)
- The Russian Intelligence(1980)
- Michael Moorcock's Multiverse (1999) (graphic novel)
- The Metatemporal Detective (2007) (collection)
- A Nomad of the Time Streams:
- The Warlord of the Air(1971)
- The Land Leviathan (1974)
- The Steel Tsar (1981)
- The Dancers at the End of Time sequence (1972–76):
- An Alien Heat(1972)
- The Hollow Lands(1974)
- The End of All Songs(1976)
- Legends from the End of Time(1976)
- The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming, aka A Messiah at the End of Time (1977)
- Gloriana (1978)
- My Experiences in the Third World War (1980)
- The Opium General and Other Stories (1984)
- Mother London (1988)
- Casablanca (1989) – short stories
- King of the City (2000)
- London Bone (2001) – short stories
- Kaboul (first published in French) (2018)
- The Jerry Cornelius quartet of novels and shorter fiction:
- The Final Programme (1969)
- A Cure for Cancer (1971)
- The English Assassin (1972)
- The Condition of Muzak (1977)
- The Cornelius Quartet (1977 compilation volume, 974pp)
- The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century (1976)
- The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)
- The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, aka Gold Diggers of 1977 (1980)
- The Entropy Tango(1981)
- The Alchemist's Question (1984)
- A Cornelius Calendar (1993 compilation volume, 554pp)
- Langdon Jones, 448pp)
- Firing the Cathedral (novella) (2002)
- Phase 1:A Jerry Cornelius Story (novella) (2008)
- Modem Times 2.0 (novella) (2011)
- Pegging the President (novella) (2018)
- The Fracking Factory (novella) (2018)
- The Wokingham Agreement (novelette) (2022)
- The von Beksequence:
- The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981)
- The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982)
- The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)
- The Pyat Quartet:
- Byzantium Endures (1981)
- The Laughter of Carthage (1984)
- Jerusalem Commands (1992)
- The Vengeance of Rome (2006)
- The Second Ether sequence:
- Blood: A Southern Fantasy (1994)
- Fabulous Harbours (1995)
- The War Amongst The Angels (1996)
- The Elric/Oona Von Bek sequence:
- The Dreamthief's Daughter (2001)
- The Skrayling Tree (2003)
- The White Wolf's Son (2005)
- Doctor Who:
- The Sanctuary of the White Friars
- The Whispering Swarm (2015)
- The Woods of Arcady (2023)
- The Wounds of Albion (TBC)
Anthologies edited
As well as a series of Best SF Stories from New Worlds and The Traps of Time (Hart-Davis), Moorcock has also edited other volumes, including two bringing together examples of invasion literature:
- Before Armageddon (1975)
- England Invaded (1977)
Nonfiction
- Letters From Hollywood (US: General Distribution Services, 1986, ISBN 0245543791), 240 pp
- LCCN 88-672236
- Wizardry and Wild Romance: a study of epic fantasy, revised and expanded (US: OCLC 57552226
- Wizardry and Wild Romance: a study of epic fantasy, revised and expanded (US:
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (London: Xanadu Publications, 1988,
- Into the Media Web: Selected short non-fiction, 1956–2006, edited by John Davey, introduced by Alan Moore, (UK: ISBN 9780861301201) 718 pp
- London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction, Edited by Michael Moorcock and Allan Kausch, introduced by Iain Sinclair, (US: ISBN 9781604864908), 377pp
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Xanadu Publications of London commissioned Moorcock to write Fantasy: The 100 Best Books. When it became "clear that I would not be able to deliver it for a long time, the publishers and I agreed that James Cawthorn was the person to take it over." Cawthorn was the primary author of the selections "mainly", according to Cawthorn, and of the text "by far", according to Moorcock. See Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy, "Introduction", page 9.
The introduction, pp. 8–10, comprises a long section signed by Cawthorn, a short one signed by Moorcock, and joint unsigned "Notes and Acknowledgments".
Fantasy became the third or fourth volume in Xanadu's 100 Best series. ISFDB gives release date November 1988 for both Fantasy and Horror.
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Further reading
- Harris-Fain, Darren. British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Since 1960, Gale Group, 2002, ISBN 0-7876-6005-1, p. 293.
- Kaplan, Carter. "Fractal Fantasies of Transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock and the Utilities of Mythographic Shamanism". In New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction (Hassler, Donald M., & Clyde Wilcox, eds), University of South Carolina Press, 2008, ISBN 1-57003-736-1, pp. 35–52.
- Magill, Frank Northern. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, Volume 1, Salem Press, 1983, ISBN 0-89356-451-6, p. 489.
External links
General
- Moorcock's Miscellany (official)
- Michael Moorcock at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Michael Moorcock at the Encyclopedia of Fantasy
- Michael Moorcock at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Michael Moorcock at IMDb
- "Michael Moorcock biography". Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
- Fantastic Metropolis, co-edited by Michael Moorcock
- Michael Moorcock pages at RealityEnds
- Fantastic Fiction
- Michael Moorcock's Comics Compendium
- Michael John Moorcock at ComicBookDB.com
Nonfiction
- "Epic Pooh", by Michael Moorcock
- "Starship Stormtroopers" at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 December 2002), by Michael Moorcock
- Also "Starship Stormtroopers" at the Stan Iverson Memorial Archives
- Michael Moorcock interviews Andrea Dworkin
- His tribute delivered at the Andrea Dworkin Commemorative Conference, Oxford University, Fri 7 Apr 2006 Archived 18 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- "If Hitler Had Won World War Two..." by Michael Moorcock. e*l* 25 (Vol. 5, No. 2), April 2005. (Earl Kemp, ed.)
- "A Child's Christmas in the Blitz" by Michael Moorcock. e*l* 35, December 2007 (Earl Kemp, ed.)
Interviews
- Interview with Michael Moorcock at Neth Space
- "The Bayley-Moorcock Letters, Part I"
- "The Bayley-Moorcock Letters, Part II"
- The Internet Review of Science Fiction interview (registration required)
- Richard Marshall, "Strange Connectionns - An interview with Michael Moorcock", 3:AM Magazine, 2002
- "Angry Old Men: Michael Moorcock on J.G. Ballard" (Archived 13 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine)—Interview on The Ballardian, 9 July 2007
- Dancing At the End of Time: Moorcock on Posthumanity Archived 4 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Humanity+ interview with Woody Evans.
- Interview with Moorcock from Mythmakers & Lawbreakers (Archived 25 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Mists of Melniboné - An Interview with Michael Moorcock—At "Monsters, Madness and Magic" on YouTube