London Peculiar And Other Nonfiction

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In this seminal collection renowned writer Michael Moorcock, who is best know for his rule-breaking SF and Fantasy, personally selects the best of his published, unpublished and uncensored essays, articles and reviews covering a huge range of topics. Drawn from over 50 years of writing,these pieces showcase Moorcock at his acerbic best. Included is 'London Peculiar', an impassioned statement of his memories of wartime London and the rebuilding 'improvements' which followed.

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"Moorcock's reviews and critical essays seem to me exemplary. They are never routine, never obligatory, never tired. They seem to me to be models of what a creative writer should do when producing critical prose. His writing here is always a conversation, never a monologue...we feel lucky to be listening in."
--Alan Wall, writer, poet, and professor of writing and literature at the University of Chester, UK.

"London Peculiar is the first full sampling of Moorcock's most important and imperishable musings on subjects both vast and various: movies and music, science and politics, the old days at New Worlds, from Philip K. Dick to R. Crumb, classics from Huxley to Pynchon, and tasty tidbits from the Tea Party to Texas barbecue. Gleaned from a full half century of opinion and outcry, London Peculiar is the work of a man of letters in the grand tradition of Orwell and Dr. Johnson. It's Old School and it's all you need to know about Tomorrow."
--Terry Bisson, Hugo and Nebula award-winning novelist

"Moorcock's writing is top-notch."
--Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Michael Moorcock is an award-winning author who has written more than 80 works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Cornelius Quartet, Doctor Who, and Elric: The Stealer of Souls. His nonfiction has appeared in Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Bastrop, Texas. Allan Kausch is the editor of more than 1,100 projects for Lucasfilm Ltd., and has also edited five volumes of Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, in addition to 80 other books. He lives in San Francisco. Iain Sinclair is the author of Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, and A Walk Around the M25.