Travelling to Utopia

About Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock (1939-) Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo Nebula World Fantasy Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 1999 he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award; in 2001 he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame; and in 2007 he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band the Deep Fix; and as a member of the prog rock band Hawkwind won a gold disc. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon Corum Von Bek Jerry Cornelius and of course his most famous character Elric. He has been compared to among others Balzac Dumas Dickens James Joyce Ian Fleming J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. Although born in London he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris.