Moorcock is alive?

[Anonymous]

I was a kid in the 70s and found and read most of the Elric books, and loved every one of them.
It's been years since I've even thought of Moorcock- until I started rereading some of the Elric books...
As I recall I thought I heard Micheal died back in the 70s or something, and I always assumed if he was alive he would be a grumpy old hermit who spends his time muttering nonsense about swords or something- his royalty checks electronically deposited into his bank so he would never have to venture into the world of man, there he would not fade away into death but be transformed into some moss covered statue- a thousand years from now they would find this statue and ask, "who the hell is this guy?" With only a few demented fans left awaiting his rebirth.

Now I find this website and discover he's alive and producing some really good stuff. And he has a wife? And he's working on all kinds of things? And he even has a website that he contributes?

I guess he's a real live guy.
Ah, Micheal, to me you'll always be that moss covered statue I imagined as a 12 year old boy.

[Michael Moorcock]

That rumour (which I must admit I started, in Breakfast in the Ruins) will haunt me until I, um, die. Years ago at a Hawkwind concert in Liverpool I heard people shouting (I thought) 'You're dead!' And believed this to be a comment on my performance. It turned out I was merely paranoid.
They were shouting 'We thought you were dead'. And that was in the 1970s...
Ho hum. Still here. Still slogging along.
:D

[manmiles]

Why did you start a rumour about your own demise?

[DeeCrowSeer]

Tax purposes, right?

[Michael Moorcock]

I'd decided to face the fact of my own mortality in that book (Breakfast in the Ruins) and hadn't expected the announcement to be taken literally. If it was done for tax purposes, it didn't work... He added feelingly.