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By Michael Moorcock at Jun 2 2010 - 11:49
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 June 1st. I delivered THE COMING OF THE TERRAPHILES today. Long, strange trip...
UPDATE: 06/06/10 - Well, I didn't go for 'Are you my mummy' etc. much as I admire those stories. I thought I'd try to give the reader something they couldn't get on TV which is what Brian Aldiss called 'wide screen baroque' -- big budget space opera plus comedy in this case. But it ties the 'whoniverse' into the multiverse and so on and it does have more than one space pirate... I wanted to expand the range rather than play off existing strengths. I really do think that the best recent scripts are the best Dr W we've ever had. It remains to be seen what the editors and 'Cardiff' think of this one. It's aimed at grown ups rather than 'eight-year-olds' who are always being mentioned in interviews. But grown-ups who enjoy a bit of fun. I'll be in the UK publicising it around the middle of October.
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By Reinart der Fuchs at Jun 2 2010 - 08:31
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By Rothgo at May 24 2010 - 02:12
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Recently, a few members have (re)encountered some of the excellent work done by our members in the Enclave at the End of Time, bringing them again to the fore. Keep looking folks - there an amazing amount of stuff squirreled away in the multiverse! Well, who are we to disagree with current fashions? So today, let's recall the craftsmanship of Death-Dude, who created this remarkable realisation of Robert Gould's Stormbringer!
More here...
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By Michael Moorcock at May 22 2010 - 21:42
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LOVED Solomon Kane. One of the best supernatural adventure stories I've ever seen, true to the spirit and mood of Howard, great camerawork and editing. James Purefoy was perfect as Kane.
Why this hasn't got substantial American distribution I don't know. I would work with [director Michael J] Bassett any day on the strength of this film.
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By David Mosley at May 19 2010 - 02:11
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Book designer extraordinaire John Coulthart has posted some sample pages of his work for Michael Moorcock's forthcoming collection Into the Media Web, Selected short non-fiction, 1956-2006, edited by John Davey and due to be published by Savoy Books later this summer.
Coulthart - who also designed The Best of Michael Moorcock (Tachyon, 2009) - says, "The book’s title comes from a prescient article of Moorcock’s from the late 1960s concerning the increasingly interrelated nature of modern media. Accompanying this was a small diagram which showed some of the connections Moorcock was discussing. Both Savoy and [John Davey] were keen to use a version of this diagram on the cover. Moorcock is known for his writings about London, some of which are reprinted in Into the Media Web, so my solution was to combine the diagram with Moorcock’s London associations and make a play on Harry Beck’s oft-imitated Tube map design for London Underground." The interior designs continue the theme, with "a grey Tube line [that ]begins on the half-title page and snakes its way through the entire volume, marked with the names of writers or locations encountered along the way...This Moorcock map recognises no boundaries..."
Davey informs us: "Self-explanatorily sub-titled Selected Short Non-Fiction, 1956-2006, [Into the Media Web] features a fifty-year cross-section of Mike's journalism, articles, editorials, fore- and afterwords, introductions and prefaces, obituaries, reviews and more. Slightly oversized (10" x 7¼" [255mm x 185mm]), with nearly 300,000 words over 720 pages, it weighs in at a monstrous 2 kilos (4.4 lbs)! There's a lengthy foreword by Alan Moore, followed by the editor's introduction and 155 (count 'em!) individual pieces by Mike, illustrated profusely throughout via John Coulthart's simply exquisite, unifying design."
Savoy's association with Michael Moorcock spans more than thirty years, in which time they have published 'long-lost' fiction such as Moorock's Sojan stories, originally written for Tarzan Adventures, and his 1959 novel, The Golden Barge, commissioning original work like The Brothel in Rosenstrasse and Death is No Obstacle as well as James Cawthorn's graphic adaptations of Stormbringer and The History of the Runestaff. Moorcock himself has contributed introductions and articles to other Savoy projects, such as Savoy Dreams, A Tea Dance at Savoy and Henry Treece's Celtic Tetralogy.
Into the Media Web: Selected short non-fiction, 1956-2006 is scheduled for publication by Savoy Books in August, priced £48.00. (ISBN: 978-0-86130-120-1)
Sojan the Swordsman is due to be republished by Paizo Publishing under the Planet Stories imprint in September 2010. (ISBN: 978-1-60125-288-3)
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By Michael Moorcock at May 14 2010 - 15:40
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Michael Moorcock writes about finishing his Doctor Who novel, his predictions as a SF writer, living in Texas and the UK General Election in "The Diary" for the Financial Times.
The Diary: Michael Moorcock
Financial Times - Saturday, 15 May 2010
"I’m just completing my ‘Doctor Who’ novel. It’s been fun and also harder work than I expected. I’ve no idea how it will be received. Humour and wild science fiction ideas are the series’ hallmark, so I decided to write it as if PG Wodehouse and Arthur C Clarke had collaborated. I hope it comes up to the high standards the existing TV writers have set..."
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