What about the other writers?

[Heiron]

Ok,this is a more personal than professional question.Concerning Mike rather than Moorcock...
ANyway,I would like to know if Mike has social relations with other writers.I remember last year that he had dinner with Brian Herbert and his wife.Also he has published stories by some of the younger guys as a a magazine editor.One of which Mike is proud to have published first is Mieville.Any friends or acquaintances?

Some time ago I had the impression that he knew well Tad Williams,but I guess that's because of a comment in the "Eternal Champion" book.

[Michael Moorcock]

I know quite a few writers of all generations, though I didn't publish Mieville first -- just the first review of Perdido St in a national magazine (Spectator). Quite a few of the younger writers I admire I've reviewed in The Guardian. I've come to know many of them socially, the way one does. But most I reviewed or read before I met them. I was proud to know earlier sf generations such as John Wyndham, Arthur Clarke and Leigh Brackett/Edmond Hamilton, the Galaxy generation, as I think of them, including Bester, Pohl, Dick and, of course, many of my contemporaries (many of whom I did publish, including Ballard, Aldiss, Disch, Sladek, MJ Harrison and so on). I'm still inclined to try to promote writers I admire, both generic and non-generic. I've known a lot of good non-generic writers, too, of course. I think it's fairly normal to have a lot of writer friends if you're a writer...

[Heiron]

Oh,ok.I had misunderstood about Mieville.
Yes,it is good for you that you were in between the hastati,principes and triarii of the generic writers' legion,I guess.
I just wanted to see whether there are good relations between writers of the genre.You see,as far as actors are concerned,ok,they work together in some films and that's it.But writers,I think they mostly meet each other at some festivals,awards etc etc.I remember I first saw Mike and some more in a photo from a European festival of Science fiction,2-3 years ago.It is funny to read ones book not knowing how he looks like.But is rather usual now that I am thinking about it.

[Michael Moorcock]

There are always rivalries and jealousies in every profession, but rather fewer in the sf and comics worlds than in, say, the poetry world.