The Best of Michael Moorcock

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From the legendary author of the Elric saga, a Science Fiction Grand Master, a platinum albumreceiving rock star, and the controversial editor of the new waves New Worlds, this definitive collection captures the incomparable short fiction of one of science fiction and literatures most important contemporary writers.
These exceptional stories range effortlessly from the genre tales that continue to define fantasy to the authors critically acclaimed mainstream works. Classic offerings include the Nebula Awardwinning novella Behold the Man, which introduces a time traveler and unlikely messiah that H.G. Wells never imagined; The Visible Men, a recent tale of the ambiguous and androgynous secret agent Jerry Cornelius; the trilogy My Experiences in the Third World War, where a Russian agent in an alternate Cambodia is powerless to prevent an inevitable march toward nuclear disaster; and A Portrait in Ivory, a Melibone story of troubled anti-hero Elric and his soul-stealing sword, Stormbringer.
Newer work handpicked by the expert editing team includes one previously unpublished story and three uncollected stories. With his finest stories finally collected in one volume, this book is a long-overdue tribute to an extraordinarily gifted, versatile, and much-beloved author.

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"A major novelist of enormous ambition." --Washington Post "The 17 stories in this collection demonstrate the breadth of scope and the excellence in storytelling of SF Grand Master and multigenre author Moorcock... Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can." --Library Journal "...Moorcock is a throwback to such outsized 19th-century novelistic talents as Dickens and Tolstoy." --Locus "[Moorcock] introduced me to the ridiculously powerful things that happen when you put a sophisticated, contemporary literary vocabulary at the service of a blackly grim high-fantasy imagination. A giant of the genre in every possible sense." --TIME Magazine "It is all quintessential Moorcock--a wild, fascinating batch of stories fairly balancing the fantastic and the nearly ordinary, and showcasing Moorcock's talent very well, thank you." --Booklist "...a handy, one-volume collection that serves as a superb introduction to the boundless imagination of this unique and fascinating author..." --Bookgasm "..something for everyone to love... This collection illustrates the breadth of Moorcock's talent. A long-overdue retrospective." --The Guardian

Author Bio

Michael Moorcock is among the most influential British authors of fantasy, science fiction, and mainstream literature. His many novels include the Elric series, the Cornelius Quartet, Gloriana, Mother London, and King of the City. Moorcock has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, and British Science Fiction awards and is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. As editor of the science-fiction magazine New Worlds, Moorcock was one of the progenitors of the experimental and controversial new-wave literary science-fiction movement. His nonfiction has appeared in many UK outlets, including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and New Statesman. A member of the progressive rock band Hawkwind, Moorcock received a platinum disc for the album Warrior on the Edge of Time.