This lead to a period during the 1980's where Moorcock concentrated on more literary works and less on the more fantastic novels. Moorcock then used characters from these stories when he went on to create the other Jerry Cornelius novels, but taking the character to even greater heights, along with the great supporting cast. John Harrison, Norman Spinrad & others, wrote a series of stories based on this character which were released in the anthology The Nature of the Catastrophe. The New Worlds authors at the time, including Aldiss, M. He became a modern myth figure, mirroring the culture that produced him, a messiah for the technological age. Publishing authors such as JG Ballard and Brian Aldiss who went on to further mainstream success.ĭuring the New Worlds period he created one of his most interesting and enigmatic characters, Jerry Cornelius. He took New Worlds, a traditional SF magazine filled with space ships and sword fights, and turned it into a vehicle for the '60's alternative culture as well as pathing the way for modern contemporary fiction. When Moorcock was offered editorship of New Worlds he was already a successful writer with the Elric character, his most famous creation, under his belt. After this he began selling stories to the Science Fiction and Fantasy magazines of the time, coming up with the Eternal Champion a figure which has appeared throughout most of his fiction.

He started out at the age of fifteen as editor of the Tarzan Adventures magazine, eventually being thrown off the magazine for trying to publish too much prose (it was supposed to be a comic strip magazine). Sweet Despise : Michael Moorcock Homepage Michael Moorcock Cartographer of the Multiverseīorn in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock has had an important influence in fantasy and science fiction since the '60's.

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