S-f great - with a tie-in to the world of rock due to his stint with space rockers Hawkwind - Michael Moorcock: b. Dec. 18, 1939…
Moorcock who was part of the New Wave of British experimental s-f in the 60s has written 80+ novels, mostly deliberately pulpy and rogish tales. He is best remembered for the series of books featuring tongue in cheek action figure Jerry Cornelius, a sexually ambiguous secret agent who is a kind of anti-Bond, and his side-kick Una Persson, a delightfully meta-fictional babe…
Moorcock is also deeply involved in fantasy, and the creator of anti-hero Elric who is everything a Tolkien-character is not…
“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.” ― Michael Moorcock
Photo by Marc Atkins, 1996 - bromide print (NPG, London)
