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Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Moorcock’s first venture into writing and publishing came before his tenth birthday, hand-producing and selling fanzines - the first of which was Outlaws Own - at school. His upbringing was as varied as his schooling was unorthodox, with relatives across the whole social spectrum (from factories to 10, Downing Street). As the war came to an end, his father left the family home and young Michael was brought up an only child by his mother, whose employer - Ernst Jellinek, an Austrian Jew and disciple of Rudolf Steiner’s strange brand of Christian mysticism - became an important, early educational influence on Moorcock (who was the first pupil ever to be expelled from Michael Hall School in Sussex, an enlightened, liberal Steiner school). Moorcock was born on 18th December, 1939, in Mitcham, South London, shortly after the outbreak of World War Two. ![]() ![]() He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, James Joyce, Robert E. Author of around a 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, the Stoker and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. MICHAEL MOORCOCK - listed recently by the London Times as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945 - is one of the most important and influential figures in SF and fantasy literature. ![]()
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