Michael Moorcock

In this episode, I chat with author Michael Moorcock about growing up in London during WW II, his life as a journalist, writing Gloriana, Or The Unfulfill'd Queen, and his latest music.

Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. 

 He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

 He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.

Michael Moorcock’s Miscellany

The Faery Queene, Edmund Spenser

 Gloriana: Or, the Unfulfill’d Queen, Michael Moorcock

 Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

Sexual Politics, Kate Millett

Honoré de Balzac

Live At The Terminal Café, Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix

Byzantium Endures: The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet, Michael Moorcock

Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet, Michael Moorcock

Jerusalem Commands: The Third Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet, Michael Moorcock

Vengeance of Rome: The Fourth Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet, Michael Moorcock

The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, Michael Moorcock