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    Posted: January 14 2005 at 18:22

Hawkwind fans must know Mr. Moorcock for his participation with the band's live and studio albums back in the seventies and eighties.

I have read dozens of his books which range from fantasy to the detective story incorporating many humourous elements. Here is an excerpt from the latest novel I picked up featuring his Douglas Adamish sense of humour although this work predates The Hitch Hiker's  Guide To The Galaxy.

"The lice moved uncomfortably as the creaking bed shook to Uncle Edmonds cough. They were tired and hungry lice. They had come with the matress  which Uncle Edmond had found propped beside someone's dustbin. They had expected nothing but the fires of the public incinerator but then had come this last minuteb rescue. They had prepared to feast the first time Uncle Edmond had laid himself down on his new acquisition. They had been dissappointed. Even the lice could not bear to get close to Uncle Edmond. They hudled at the far east end of the bed, even now. At least, they thought, the public incinerator would ha ve beeen quick."

From the book "The Chineese Agent" published in 1970 by Granada Books ISBN 0 583 12990 0.

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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 23:51
Micheal Moorcock is my favorite author. I haven't read that one yet. Perhaps I'll look into it.
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Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2005 at 03:41

Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

Micheal Moorcock is my favorite author. I haven't read that one yet. Perhaps I'll look into it.

It figures that you'd like moor cock, Gdub....Wink

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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2005 at 04:09

I liked Elric a lot. He was about the only fantasy hero who had a complex and conflicted personality (before Thomas Covenant, that is).

I have to admit I haven't read much of his other stuff, though. I don't even think I've read all the Stormbringer-related works.
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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

I liked Elric a lot. He was about the only fantasy hero who had a complex and conflicted personality (before Thomas Covenant, that is).

I have to admit I haven't read much of his other stuff, though. I don't even think I've read all the Stormbringer-related works.

Read The War Hound and The World's Pain or The City of Autumn Twilight

 
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I really like the 'Dancers At The End Of Time' trilogy. It's totally mad, but it's great fun.
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Originally posted by Richardw Richardw wrote:

I really like the 'Dancers At The End Of Time' trilogy. It's totally mad, but it's great fun.

I tried reading them, but couldn't get into them. Also the Cornelius Chronicles is another popular one that I found difficult to get into.
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A very skilled and varied writer. I like the Jerry Cornelius stories. I reccomend 'The Opium General'

Did anyone ever hear the album he made 'New Words fair Deep Fix'?? It came out in about 1976, and features some members of Hawkwind. Musically its not great, but its certainly interesting and quite atmospheric. He's a better writer than he is a singer It's a mixture of folk, rock 'n' roll and psychedelia. It's a concept album, about a young man in some kind of post apocalyptic world - I think. Its been along time!

As a kid I used to listen to this album at my friends house. His father - a friend of Moorcocks - had a copy. Long before I had any idea who Hawkwind were, what prog rock was and certainly before I had read any Moorcock.

For anyone whos interested I'll try and find an online store that sells this strange and rare record, and post a link.
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Here's some info on it..

www.novymir.com.au/terminalcafe/deepfix.html

You can buy it on line at amazon.co.uk on import. Quite pricey though..
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Points: 35 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2005 at 18:18
is it just me or is moorcock one of the coolest last names ever



i wouldnt mind being called that
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Ahhh Moorcock is a great writer. However, there are soo many good authors out there, I really couldn't choose a favorite. It has been a number of years sinse I read any Mr. Michael, but his stories still remain exciting and provocative. His anti heros are more likeable than some pure heros in some other stories I have read . I just recently started reading the foundation series for the first time. I was never a big favorite of Asimov, not because of his stories (I haven't read any), but because of all the interviews I have read with him. I found him verbose, and way to self important for my taste. However, I just recently watched the new movie I Robot, and enjoyed the story. I know what you are thinking, to get interested in an author because of a movie made from one of his stories seems a little backward. But if it encourages me to read his stuff, then so be it.
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2005 at 08:30

I agreed completely, Quacky; the George Clooney version of "Solaris" was embarassing, but it probably led to a lot of people discovering Stanislaw Lem, which is great.

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Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2005 at 18:53
Other favourites of mine are Charles Bukowski, Don DeLillo, Douglas Adams, Dan Brown, Len Deighton and of course the greatest of them all Edgar Allan Poe.
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2005 at 21:45

Bukowski is amazing!

VB and I finally have a solid foundation for agreement- we both have an appreciation for a foul-mouthed, self-destructive, pugnacious, hard-drinking loser genius.

Everytime I talk to anyone about Bukowski, I find that people are split about his prose and poetry. I tend to prefer his prose (I think "The Most Beautiful Girl in Town" and "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" are two of the greatest collections of stories I've ever read) but a number of folks tell me that his poems are his real achievement. How do you stand on the debate, VB?



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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2005 at 06:54
Back to Moorcock for a moment - he also wrote a serious, non fantasy novel called Mother London which is an absolute masterpiece and one of the great London novels of the last 50 years. I think it's currently out of print, but there are plans for it to be reissued.
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