No, not a plea from the Sun's female readership (or possibly gay/bi male readership - who knows?) but a direction to Brit sf magazine SFX's current supplement about the fifty most crucial figures to have worked in the genre. Mike, you are officially (opens silver envelope)... number forty-eight! You beat Mary Shelley and George A. Romero. The cool thing is that, as the supplement deals with its victims in reverse order, people get to read about you on, indeed, page three - a full 24 pages ahead of George Lucas!
In all fairness, I quite like the magazine and commend it to anyone who likes to see popular sf covered in a reasonably literate and lively manner - I think you'll learn more on www.sfx.co.uk. They won't be taking this rank ordering seriously at all - it's clearly just an excuse to bang on about a lot of movers and shakers. The main focus of the entry is devoted to New Worlds and features the cover of the Corgi NW9 which, of course, you didn't actually edit... Never did work out who the other two types on the cover were meant to be. And who was/what became of Anna Ostrowska?
I do, however, draw the attention of all present to the final paragraph:
'Did you know?
'An attempt to bring his Stormbringer novels to the screen in an animated form was abandoned (a) the work involved was immense and (b) Moorcock showed 'limited enthusiasm'.'
No idea who they purport to be quoting in the last bit. At the very best I assume this is old news which can do little more than muddy the waters, even if those waters are covering a rather different....
...OK, does anyone know a humane way to put down a terminally ailing metaphor?

In all fairness, I quite like the magazine and commend it to anyone who likes to see popular sf covered in a reasonably literate and lively manner - I think you'll learn more on www.sfx.co.uk. They won't be taking this rank ordering seriously at all - it's clearly just an excuse to bang on about a lot of movers and shakers. The main focus of the entry is devoted to New Worlds and features the cover of the Corgi NW9 which, of course, you didn't actually edit... Never did work out who the other two types on the cover were meant to be. And who was/what became of Anna Ostrowska?
I do, however, draw the attention of all present to the final paragraph:
'Did you know?
'An attempt to bring his Stormbringer novels to the screen in an animated form was abandoned (a) the work involved was immense and (b) Moorcock showed 'limited enthusiasm'.'
No idea who they purport to be quoting in the last bit. At the very best I assume this is old news which can do little more than muddy the waters, even if those waters are covering a rather different....
...OK, does anyone know a humane way to put down a terminally ailing metaphor?
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