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By Michael Moorcock at Jan 5 2010 - 08:53
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Welcome to Moorcock's Miscellany, so-called (1) because I reprint from time to time articles which interest me and (2) because it contains discussion and information about my work. In the Q&A forum, I discuss my own work and pretty much every other subject with readers. I'm sorry that it's impossible for me to carry on long email correspondence with readers, but I can be contacted via the Q&A forum if you are trying to contact me for a specific reason. Pictures of books, magazines which I have edited, foreign editions and so on can also be found in the Image Hive. If you have rare material to share for this, it will be welcome! You can get additional information about my work in the Wikiverse.
Information about forthcoming books, short stories, reviews, interviews, graphic novels, movies, games or features, as well as book signings and so on can usually be found in the the Q&A forum of this site. From time to time, either to support various charities or to support this site, we run auctions, usually of scarcer books and other material.
Please note that I'm not in a position to read unsolicited manuscripts, books or proof copies and if they are sent to me, they won't be read. I'm sorry about this but the amount of unsolicited work sent to me for comment, testimonials and so on has become impossible to handle. If you wish to contact me professionally from anywhere in the world, learn how by visiting the Contact Policy page.
Michael Moorcock,
1st April 2009
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By Reinart der Fuchs at Jan 1 2010 - 09:13
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Dear reader,
Many people have given their valuable time to maintain resources for learning about Michael Moorcock and his career. We welcome you to join us or simply read what we have to offer here. It's the only website on The World Wide Web where you can communicate directly with Michael Moorcock in the Q&A, and where a community of members is waiting to help you find that nugget of information you are looking for. We have thousands of pictures, videos and threads that can help you learn something new about this author and his long career. Many people stop by to say hello, and others enjoy exchanging ideas and thoughts about his work. Whatever you plan to do while you are here, we hope you enjoy this site and hope you will tell others about it.
Thank you,
Reinart der Fuchs
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By David Mosley at Jan 8 2012 - 04:06
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It is with great pleasure - and much gratitude to Mike and PM Press - that we're able to give everyone a special preview of Mike's forth-coming collection London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction by sharing Iain Sinclair's Introduction, 'The Man on the Stairs' with you all here first.
The Man on the Stairs: An Introduction to Michael Moorcock by Iain Sinclair
In London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction, Michael Moorcock personally selects the best of his published, unpublished, and uncensored essays, articles, reviews, and opinions covering a wide range of subjects: books, films, politics, reminiscences of old friends, and attacks on new foes. Drawn from over fifty years of writing, including his most recent work from the pages of the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, along with obscure and now unobtainable sources, the pieces in London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction include:
* The first appearance in English of a review of R. Crumb’s Genesis (previously only available in French)
* A previously unpublished review of Angus Wilson’s No Laughing Matter
* An introduction to the online 'Paraxis' (not yet in print elsewhere)
* The first appearance in English of the Introduction to Titus Alone (previously only available in German)
* A 2008 review (now unavailable) of Alan Wall’s Sylvie’s Riddle
* An introduction to Barrington Bayley from a now defunct site
* A previously unpublished review of Iain Sinclair’s The Falconer and Slow Chocolate Autopsy
* A forthcoming Introduction to Rudolf Nassauer’s The Hooligan
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction will be published in the USA by PM Press and in the UK by Merlin Press in March 2012.
An ebook edition is currently available from the PM Press web site. (Other formats for the Kindle, etc. will be forthcoming.)
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By Michael Moorcock at Dec 4 2011 - 09:20
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I'm at the point of signing a big contract with Victor Gollancz (Orion) which ultimately will make pretty much all my books available as e-books in the UK. The process might be slower in the US but Titan will publish Bastable as e-books.
** UPDATE ** 1st February 2012:
I just signed the first of many contracts with Orion. This one will release minor works ONLY as e-books but the rest of my books (pretty much all of them apart from Mother London, King of the City, London Peculiar and the Pyat books) should be published in the UK from this year on and be available as e-books or paper.
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By David Mosley at Aug 31 2011 - 06:31
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Michael Moorcock's novel KING OF THE CITY has been released as an eBook for the Kindle by HarperCollins.
First published in 2000, King of the City is the follow-up novel to Moorcock's critically acclaimed 1988 novel, Mother London. Narrated by celebrity photographer and erstwhile rock star Dennis Dover - who could also be the grown-up version of the 'real' Jerry Cornelius from The Condition of Muzak, Moorcock's award-winning 1977 novel - King of the City charts a chaotic ride through London from the sixties to the end of the Twentieth century.
"Looking back over his upbringing in the inner city London area of Brookgate, Dover talks about his relationship with his beloved cousin Rosie and describes the unscrupulous rise to power of another cousin, John Barbican Begg. Through Dover's boozy, drug-hazed memoirs, Moorcock addresses the confused, corrupt, mythical and historic post-Diana London into which are woven local hard men, ex-boxers, South London music halls, rock and roll stars, lovers, ancestors and empire building corporate tyrants. In his vivid portrait of contemporary London, Moorcock conveys forcefully many of the city's mistakes and tragedies, yet never forgetting its often obscured but underlying magic." (Kirkus UK)
Read a preview of King of the City for Kindle
Buy King of the City for Kindle from Amazon US
Buy King of the City for Kindle from Amazon UK
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By Reinart der Fuchs at Aug 11 2011 - 20:45
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Kizuna: Fiction for Japan
Edited by Brent Millis
Kindle ebook: $9.99
Print version: TBA
The earth shook. The waters rose. Japan cried out...
And we listened. After the devastating earthquake, people from all over the world have found ways to help, and Kizuna: Fiction For Japan is one that is new and unique.
Kizuna: Fiction for Japan is a mixed-genre anthology of short fiction, most of it 1000 words or under. It boasts internationally-known authors like Michael Moorcock, Ken Asamatsu, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, John Shirley, Shinya Gaku, Vittorio Catani, Robert M. Price, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., and Alvin Pang; genre-authors like Bradley Sands, Jason Wuchenich, Andersen Prunty, and Garrett Cook; and independent authors like Trent Zelazny and Glynn Barrass. An astonishing 76 authors answered the call to help and approximately ninety percent of it is
original work written specifically for this anthology. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to helping orphans in the disaster-devastated areas of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima via the NPO, Smile Kids Japan.
Smile Kids Japan
Smile Kids Japan and Living Dreams (NPOs / social benefit organizations) are working together on Smiles and Dreams, a program to help the orphanages in the worst affected prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate. From helping with immediate needs, to setting up long term programs to empower the children to dream again and help them realize their goals, Smiles and Dreams is a grassroots project that gets the money directly to those in need.
From the editor's introduction:
“I turned to my friends in the writing community. Would they contribute? Sure they would! Soon I had ten authors. Then twenty. Thirty... Author friends of author friends were submitting. Authors from Spain, Singapore, Japan, Italy, New Zealand, Germany, France, America, the UK, Australia and Canada all stepped forward. I was stunned. Even now, as corny as it sounds, the gratitude I feel at their selfless desire to help makes me very misty-eyed.”
Please help spread the word of Kizuna, a word that means "bond" in Japanese, and create your own bond with the people of Japan.
For more information on the anthology, a list of stories, and ways to help with the disaster in
Japan, visit: http://bit.ly/kizunacharity
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