The answer to the existence of this incredible world is close. However, the heroes still have a lot of tests.
Marina and Sergey DYACHENKO. MY GLORIOUS KNIGHT LEFT ...
Among all the undoubted advantages beautiful lady The most important thing for a knight is loyalty.
Michael MOORCOCK. SECURITY OF THE SILENT CITADEL
A stern lone wolf, the stepson of the Mercurial wilds, Captain John McShard sets off in search of a kidnapped young beauty.He can be both brunette and blond, hermaphrodite and male; the essence of his life - in the crazy rhythms of rock and roll and incoherent drug visions. He is accompanied by the same many-sided sister and brother, either beloved or hated.Name English writer Michael Moorcock is known to many. This is one of the most versatile and unpredictable authors in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, the creator of the famous series and sagas about Elric, Corun, Jack Cornelius and other famous literary heroes. The works presented in this volume will certainly please the reader.In the future, when the Earth has stopped spinning and humanity is degenerating, one man challenges everything.Three very famous, but very different authors Brilliant storyteller Michael Moorcock, great inventor Roger Zelazny and subtle psychologist and humorist Piers Anthony. They are united by the main thing: inexhaustible imagination and the ability to captivate the reader from the very first lines of his works.
CONTENT:
Michael Moorcock. Shores of death. per. L.Voroshilova
Roger Zelazny. Jack from the shadows. per. V. Kurganova
Michael Moorcock - Rosenstrasse Brothel
An erotic novel in which the elderly Count von Beck recalls his old adventures in the best brothel in the city of Mirenburg, before the First World War.The army of Chaos is gaining strength and conquering one kingdom after another. No one can resist their power, and only Elric and his sword Thunderbird can defeat Chaos and give hope for the revival of the Earth.The land where the ancient people of the Mabden once lived, and now their descendants live, was covered with ice centuries later ... The terrible Foi Miore, who came from Limbo, send a winter cold to the once beautiful Lium-en-Es.What can save the Earth and people from destruction? Prince Corum, who again came to their aid, sets off in search of the mysterious Bull and Spear - isn't deliverance in them?The first novel in the saga follows a 20th-century earthling, John Daker, who begins to have dreams that his name is people from another world. After some time, he is transferred there into the body of a great hero of the past named Erekose. The former Erekose swore that he would return if the old enemies of mankind, the Eldren, returned. And John Daker, accepting his role as the protector of humanity, begins to fight the Eldren - a humanoid, but non-human race.The Erekose trilogy and the Michael Caine trilogy in one volume.
Content:
Eternal Warrior (translated by I. Togoeva, I. Danilov)
Phoenix in obsidian (translated by I. Togoeva, I. Danilov)
Order of Darkness (translator not specified)
City of the Beast (translated by E. Yankovskaya)
Lord of the Spiders (translated by E. Yankovskaya)
Masters of the Pit (translated by E. Yankovskaya)
Date of Birth: 18.12.1939
One of the most popular English science fiction writers, best known for his dark fantasy novels in the Eternal Warrior series. The action of the works takes place mainly in the vastness of the Multiverse created by the author.
Michael John Moorcock(Michael John Moorcock) was born in the small town of Mitcham (Surrey) in the family of an engineer. As a child, the family moved to London, where the writer lived until 1993. Michael's parents divorced, and he began an independent life as a teenager. Since childhood, Michael read a lot fantasy literature and early began to try to write himself, but he did not immediately come to professional literature. At first he worked in amateur fanzines, where he actively published himself (his first magazine was called The Adventures of Tarzan, and Moorcock headed it at the age of 18). After serving in the Royal Air Force, he graduated from the prestigious Pitmans College, after which he plunged headlong into the bohemian life. Murcock played the guitar and other instruments well, participated in the activities of the Hawkwind group (Hawk Wind), whose repertoire includes many of his own songs and compositions, organized group Deep Fix, with which he released the album "New World Fair". In 1957, the first articles appeared in amateur magazines. major works Moorcock. In the early 1960s, the writer joined the radical left and edited the Liberal Party magazine for two years. Then the writer married for the first time (he was married 4 times in total; last time- in 1983) - on the journalist and writer Hilary Bailey. He lived with her for 16 years, becoming the father of two daughters and a son.
Michael began to seriously engage in literature after meeting with Ted Carnell, editor of many professional British science fiction magazines. At first, Moorcock published in his magazines and quickly gained popularity, and in 1964 Michael himself became the editor of one of the leading British science fiction magazines: New Worlds. A year later, Moorcock's first novels appeared in print: a "Martian" trilogy created in imitation of E. R. Burroughs. However, Moorcock first became known not as a writer, but as an editor. His editorial policy led to the fact that the magazine "New Worlds" became the mouthpiece of a whole literary movement - the so-called. "New Wave". The works of Moorcock himself became known in the mid-70s, when the hype around the New Wave had already subsided. A feature of Moorcock's work was that he had already from the very early works(which he subsequently rewrote more than once) set about creating a "super series". His characters move freely from novel to novel in accordance with the concept of the "Multiverse" created by Moorcock himself. At the same time, the works in which they appear belong to a wide variety of genres: from classical science fiction to alternative history and realistic prose. Moorcock's Peru owns several series in the "heroic fantasy" genre, which the author himself treated as a means to make money.
Moorcock currently lives in a small town in Texas (USA, since 1993), collecting rare books in his free time. late XIX- the beginning of the 20th century, he is also fond of hiking, music and drawing.
Writer's Awards
Master of Chaos (The Dream of Earl Aubec) (Earl Aubec) (1964)
+ Wandering Forest / The Roaming Forest (2006)
1
. Elric of Melnibone / Elric of Melnibone (1972)
2
. / The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
3
. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
4
. Dreaming City / The Dreaming City (1961)
Ivory Portrait / A Portrait in Ivory (2007)
5
. When the Gods Laugh (While the Gods Laugh) / While the Gods Laugh (1961)
6
. The Singing Citadel (1967)
--- Main cycle, part two
7 . The Sleeping Sorceress (The Vanishing Tower) (1971)
The Last Enchantment (Jesting with Chaos) (1978)
8
. Revenge of the Rose / The Revenge of the Rose (1991) (also as part of the publication Revenge of the Rose)
9
. The Stealer of Souls (1962)
10
. Kings in Darkness / Kings in Darkness (1962)
11
. The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams (The Flamebringers) (1962)
Black Petals / Black Petals (2008)
+ Save Tanelorn (The story of how Rakhir, the Red Archer, received the Arrows of Order) / To Rescue Tanelorn (1962)
12 . Stormbringer (Stormbringer) / Stormbringer (1977)
--- Works adjacent to the main cycle
1. The Knight of the Swords (1971)
2. The Queen of the Swords (1971)
3. King of Swords / The King of the Swords (1971)
4. Bull and Spear / The Bull and the Spear (1973)
5 The Oak and the Ram (1973)
6. Sword and Stallion / The Sword and the Stallion (1973)
1. Jewel in the Skull / The Jewel in the Skull (1967)
2. Amulet of the Mad God / The Mad God's Amulet (1968)
3. Sword of the Dawn (Sword of Dawn) / The Sword of the Dawn (1968)
4. Runestaff (The Secret of the Runestaff) / The Runestaff (1969)
5. Count Brass (Castle Brass) / Count Brass (1972)
6. The Champion of Garathorm (1973)
7. In search of Tanelorn / The Quest for Tanelorn (1973)
1. City of the Beast / The City of the Beast (1965)
2. Lord of the Spiders / Lord of the Spiders (1965)
3. Masters of the Pit / Masters of the Pit (1965)
Sojan and the Zilor Wars
1. Sojan the Swordsman (1984)
* Daughter of a Warrior King (1957)
* Mission to Asno / Mission to Asno (1957)
* Revolt in Hatnor (1957)
* Attack of the Horde / The Hordes Attack (1957)
* Purple galley / The Purple Galley (1958)
* The Sea Wolves! (1958)
* Sojan at Sea (1958)
* Sea of demons / The Sea of Demons (1958)
* Prisoners in Stone (1958)
* Sons of the Snake-God / Sojan and the Sons of The Snake-God (1958)
* Sojan and the Plain of Mystery (1958)
* Sojan and the Hunters of Norj (1958)
2. Klam-predator / Klan The Spoiler (1958)
* Dek's Journey / Dek of Noothar (1958)
* The Seige of Noothar (1958)
4. Sojan and Rens Karto of Bersnol (1958)
1. The Lord of the Air (Heavenly commander) / The Warlord of the Air (1971)
2. Leviathan Walks the Earth / The Land Leviathan (1974)
3. Steel Tsar / The Steel Tsar (1980)
Edge of Time(trilogy + compilation)
1. Alien Heat / An Alien Heat (1972)
2. Hollow Lands / The Hollow Lands (1974)
3. The End of All Songs (1976)
1. Pale roses / Pale Roses (1974)
2. White stars / White Stars (1975)
3. Ancient shadows / Ancient Shadows (1975)
4. Eternal flame(Messiah at the End of Time) / Constant Fire (A Messiah at the End of Time) (1977)
5. / Elric at the End of Time (1981)
6. Sumptuous Dress: A Question Of Size At The End Of Time (2008)
Jerry Cornellius
original tetralogy
1. The Final Program (1967)
2. A Cure for Cancer (1971)
3. English Assassin / The English Assassin (1972)
4. The Condition of Muzak (1977)
The Life and Times of Jerry Cornelius (collection of short stories)
* Peking connection / The Peking Junction (1969) (published in the magazine "Youth and Science Fiction" No. 2, 1992, Dnepropetrovsk)
* The Delhi Division (1968)
* The Tank Trapeze (1969)
* The Nature of the Catastrophe (1970)
* The Swastika Set-Up (1972)
* The Sunset Perspective (1970)
* Sea Wolves (1970)
* Voortrekker (1971)
*All the Dead Singers (1971)
* The Longford Cup (1973)
* The Entropy Circuit (1974)
Novels
1. Entropy Tango / The Entropy Tango (1981)
2. The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (1976)
Novels and stories
1. The Alchemist's Question (1984)
2. The Murderer's Song (1987)
3. The Gangrene Collection (1990)
4. The Roumanian Question (1991)
5. The Enigma Windows (1995)
6. The Spencer Inheritance (1998)
7. Cheer for rockets / Cheering for the Rockets (1998)
8. Arson of the Cathedral / Firing the Cathedral (2002)
9 Modem Times (2008)
Jerry Cornell
1. Chinese agent / The Chinese Agent (1970)
2. Russian intelligence / The Russian Intelligence (1980)
Carl Glogauer
1. Se - Man (Alien) / Behold the Man (1969)
2 Breakfast in the Ruins (1972)
Behold the Man (1966) (the story on the basis of which he wrote novel of the same name; published in a collection)
Dweller of Time (short stories)(in a compilation)
1. Dweller of time / The Time Dweller (1964)
2 Escape From Evening (1965)
Between Wars
1. Byzantium Commands / Byzantium Endures (1981)
2. Carthage Laughs / The Laughter of Carthage (1984)
3. Jerusalem Commands / Jerusalem Commands (1992)
4. Revenge of Rome / The Vengeance of Rome (2006)
Second Aether
1. Blood: southern fantasy / Blood (1995)
2 Fabulous Harbors (1995)
3. The War Amongst the Angels (1996)
Nick Allard
1. The LSD Dossier (1966)
2 Somewhere in the Night (1966)
3. Printer's Devil (1966)
Selected works(section constantly updated)
--- Novels (in chronological order)
1962 A Caribbean Crisis // Co-author: James Cawthorne
1965 / The Blood Red Game (1965)
1965 At the gates of the underworld - windy () / The Winds of Limbo (The Fireclown)
1966 The Shores of Death (The Twilight Man)
1967 The Rituals of Infinity (The Wrecks of Time)
1969 / The Ice Schooner
1969 The Black Corridor // Co-author: Hilary Bailey
1975 The Distant Suns
1978 Gloriana, or the Failed Queen / Gloriana; or, the Unfulfill"d Queen
1988 / Mother London
2000 King of City (2000)
2000 / Silverheart // Co
Screen adaptations of works, theatrical performances
The Final Program, 1975 (USA: The Last Days of Man on Earth, 1973) IMDB 5.4
The Land That Time Forgot, 1975 IMDB 5.3
Hawkwind: The Chronicle of the Black Sword, 1985
Michael John Moorcock was born on December 18, 1939 in the small town of Mitcham (Surrey) in the family of an engineer. He moved to London as a child and lived there until 1993. The childhood and youth of the writer fell on a special period - the collapse of the British Empire (not so long ago we ourselves experienced something similar - just yesterday we lived in a powerful state, and suddenly, in a couple of years, the empire crumbles to dust). It is from here that the roots of one of the main themes in his work grow - the idea of \u200b\u200bthe eternal, incessant struggle against the advancing Chaos, the story of the destruction of the familiar system of the universe and the long, painful adaptation to the new one.
In fact, having lost his family early (his parents divorced), Moorcock began an independent life as a teenager. After serving in the Royal Air Force, he graduated from the prestigious Pitmans College, after which he plunged headlong into the bohemian life. WITH young years Moorcock played the guitar and other instruments well, and the Beatlemania that swept England and the entire Western world at that time influenced the choice life path- he participated in the activities of the group "Hawkwind" ("Hawk Wind"), in the repertoire of which there are many of his own songs and compositions, organized the group Deep Fix, with which he released the album "New World Fair". Moorcock was also fond of politics. In the early 1960s, he joined the radical left and for two years edited the Liberal Party's organ, Current Topics. He later became an anarchist in general and even published in 1983 a scathing non-fiction book, The Retreat from Freedom: The Erosion of Democracy in Modern Britain.
In the early 1960s, the future editor and writer married for the first time (he was married 4 times in total; the last time was in 1983) - to journalist and sci-fi writer Hilary Bailey. He lived with her for 16 years, becoming the father of two daughters and a son. Although the Hawkwind group released about 50 albums, and during the peak of their popularity gathered a considerable audience of fans, Moorcock's finest hour did not come on stage. fantasy future writer greedily devoured (and peed) with early childhood. At the same time, Michael very early discovered in himself a rather rare gift - he turned out to be a talented editor.
At first he worked in amateur fanzines, where he himself was actively published (his first magazine was called "The Adventures of Tarzan", and Moorcock headed it at the age of 18). It was on the pages of this self-made edition that Moorcock's first series in the genre of "heroic fantasy" was published, which began in the May 1957 issue with the story "Sojan the sword-bearer" (in 1977, the stories of the series were combined under one cover in the collection "Sojan") . However, the main livelihood was still given by music (he also worked as an editor in a publishing house of detective literature).
Everything changed when Michael met Ted Carnell, editor of many professional British science fiction magazines, spiritual leader and unquestioning authority of British fandom. This meeting was fateful both for Moorcock and for Carnell himself and his offspring - the leading English science fiction magazine New Worlds, founded back in 1946. At first, Michael himself began to write regularly in the magazines then led by Carnell - "SF Adventures" and "Science Fantasy", and quickly achieved some success with readers - immediately in book editions, and not in periodicals, saw the light of the volume of the "Martian" trilogy, created in imitation of E. R. Burroughs (it came out in 1965 under the pseudonym Edward P. Bradbury). And in 1964, the New Worlds magazine unexpectedly closed, and Carnell left the editorial post. But a few months later, the publication resumed work with a new editor, twenty-four-year-old Michael John Moorcock.
After that, for seven years that shook the world of science fiction, New Worlds became the mouthpiece of a whole literary movement - the so-called. "New Wave". Even in his youth, Moorcock argued passionately with other fans, arguing that modern fiction lacks general literary literacy and culture, as well as a "human dimension" to be called Literature. What he meant by these concepts became clear as soon as he had the opportunity to demonstrate it in the pages of his own magazine. The main basis of the "New Wave" was a sharply aggressive rejection of "classic" science fiction. Therefore, the writers-apologists of the movement represented a rather motley palette of various literary movements that were fashionable at that time. The most famous representatives of the movement, in addition to Moorcock himself, were: the British Brian Aldiss, James Graham Ballard, John Brunner, Michael John Harrison, John Sladek, Christopher Priest and the Americans Thomas Disch, Norman Spinrad, Samuel Delaney, Roger Zelazny and Harlan Ellison (as you can see , authors very different in style).
Throughout the years that Moorcock edited New Worlds, he never stopped writing. But only in the mid-1970s, when the Wave subsided, critics and readers "discovered" a new writer - a very prolific, diverse, consistent in carrying out some of his obsessions, as well as intelligent, ironic and stylistically "equipped" for every taste. From the very first works, he set about creating a completely unprecedented super series, covering, according to the author's intention, all his works. For this, however, it was necessary to develop the concept of the Multiverse (the term was borrowed from the prominent English prose writer John Cowper Powis), in which various parallel worlds coexist, constantly intersecting with each other. The novels of this megacycle are written in different genres - there are “hard” science fiction, and fantasy, and the novel of the absurd, and alternative history, and decadence, and “space opera”, and even detective or realistic prose. The heroes of the books freely migrate from novel to novel, eventually forming a rich polyphonic whole (which was in no way facilitated by the frequent rewriting of early works by the author). [All of this makes compiling a bibliography of Moorcock's books a hell of a job!]
Moorcock created several series of rather specific "heroic fantasy". However, the writer never hid that he wrote fantasy series for the sake of money, which he mainly needed to keep his magazine afloat. However, his series turned out to be very non-standard and ambiguous. One has only to take a closer look at his heroes - unlike the supermen of Burroughs, Howard and other founders of "heroic fantasy" who have no doubts, Moorcock's heroes are usually restless, lonely, obsessed with dark passions, phobias and other clearly non-superman qualities. In short, they are people without any prefixes "super" (one can say that it is Moorcock who stands at the source of modern "heroics").
Peru Moorcock also owns a critical work on the fantasy genre - "Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy" (1989). Currently, Moorcock lives in a small town in Texas (USA, since 1993), in his spare time collecting rare book editions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he also enjoys hiking, music and drawing. He is the winner of the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award and three times - British Prize fantasy. A number of comics and video games have been based on his books.
Books:
No series
Silver heart
(Science fiction)
Escape from the Twilight [Compilation]
(Heroic fantasy)
Warriors of Zeelor
(Heroic fantasy)
Gloriana; or the Queen who has not tasted the joys of the flesh
Final program [Compilation]
(Alternative historical fiction)
ice schooner
(Heroic fantasy)
Breakfast on the ruins
(Science fiction)
The Saga of Elric of Melniboney [Compilation]
(Heroic fantasy)
Elric saga
Stormlord
(Heroic fantasy)
Rose's Revenge (Compilation)
(Heroic fantasy)
1 - Sleeping sorceress
(Heroic fantasy)
3 - Soul Thief
(Heroic fantasy)
4 - Kings in the Dark
(Heroic fantasy)
5 - Garland of Forgotten Dreams
(Heroic fantasy)
6 - Petrel
(Heroic fantasy)
9 - Wanderer on the seas of fate
(Heroic fantasy)
10 - Dreaming city
(Heroic fantasy)
11 - When the gods laugh
(Heroic fantasy)
12 - Singing citadel
(Heroic fantasy)
13 - City of Dreams
(Heroic fantasy)
The von Beck family
1 - The dog of war and the pain of the world
(Heroic fantasy)
2 - City in the autumn stars
(Heroic fantasy)
3 - House on Rosenstrasse
(Heroic fantasy)
Doctor Who
The arrival of the terrafils
(Space fantasy)
time nomads
1 - Lord of the Air
(Heroic fantasy)
2 - Leviathan walks the earth
(Heroic fantasy)
3 - Steel king
(Heroic fantasy)
Edge of Time. Tales from the Edge of Time
1 - Pale roses
(Heroic fantasy)
2 - White stars
(Heroic fantasy)
3 - Ancient shadows
(Heroic fantasy)
4 - Eternal Flame
(Heroic fantasy)
5 - Elric at the Edge of Time
(Heroic fantasy)
Edge of Time. Dancers at the Edge of Time
1 - Alien heat
(Heroic fantasy)
Briefly about the article: Michael Moorcock is not well known to young science fiction fans, recent decades his star seemed to fade. Meanwhile, at one time, the works of this writer attacked shops and collapses on such a wide front that it even seemed to someone that his books gained the ability to reproduce on their own, and, like cuckoo chicks, threw off volumes of other authors from the shelves.
In Search of Tanelorn
Fiction by MICHAEL MOORKOK
Everything will pass, die, disappear,
Will perish in the eternal black abyss.
The last horn will sound.
But Tanelorn will not perish.
Eternal, eternal Tanelorn.
Tanelorn.
Michael Moorcock. "Phoenix in Obsidian"
Michael Moorcock is not well known to young sci-fi fans, his star has kind of faded in recent decades. Meanwhile, at one time, the works of this writer attacked shops and collapses on such a wide front that it even seemed to someone that his books gained the ability to reproduce on their own, and, like cuckoo chicks, threw off volumes of other authors from the shelves.
Moorcock's contribution to the history of science fiction is no less than the contribution of Tolkien, Howard, Le Guin. Perhaps, together with them and with Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock makes up the “Great Five”, “ Mighty Handful” of the writers who most influenced the world of fantasy. Paradoxically, it was precisely belonging to the "great" that became one of the reasons for the current obscurity of Moorcock. Now on everyone's lips are the works of Michael's students - and the followers of his students.
Rules of the Multiverse
The spheres of the worlds float in the boundless ocean of eternity. Each of the spheres is a separate universe with its own laws, own history, closed in its infinity. Such iridescent bubble, on the shells of which the chronicles of billions of epochs shimmer with colors.
Everything at once - here is Tolkien's Middle-earth, and the ancient Scandinavian myths, and Ordered Perumov, and the real Earth, and thousands, millions of its reflections, each for any fantasy or thought. Such is Michael Moorcock's Multiverse - Finale long road, which passed the peacekeeping in science fiction. Further - nowhere.
Cosmic Equilibrium governs the life and death of world spheres, but does not interfere in the continuous struggle between Law and Chaos. Gods and demons, sorcerers, spirits and monsters travel between worlds, penetrate the barriers surrounding them, wander through the flesh of existence. And in every important battle, in every significant war, the Eternal Warrior participates. It's just a mortal, just as vulnerable as the rest of us. But, unlike us, he is not just a person, but one of the archetypes of the Multiverse, one of its necessary components. In a literary sense, it is the driving force behind the story. In the plot - hundreds, thousands, myriads of heroes from different worlds and times, which, nevertheless, are one being, reborn, living, as it were, outside of time, eternal.
The great hero serves the Cosmic Balance and restores it where one of the world forces breaks the balance. Therefore, the Warrior fights either on the side of the Law, or on the side of Chaos, or on the side of mortals. Incarnations of the Eternal Warrior are the main characters in Moorcock's novels. Let the Warrior strive to become an ordinary mortal - oblivion and peace are impossible for an eternal hero, and therefore until the end of time he will die, be reborn and again engage in an endless battle between the fundamental principles. He is the edge of the sword with which the Multiverse is at war with itself.
The center of the Multiverse, the key to understanding Moorcock's reality is the Eternal City of Thanelorn. This image of crystal purity and clarity, a symbol of the eternal and unchanging, freedom and peace runs through the entire multi-volume saga. And everyone strives to find the City-out-of-time, breathe in its bright air, feel the meaning of life that fills it.
Eternal Warriors always end up in Thanelorn, most often after death. But sometimes they manage to rest here from eternal battles or find what they are looking for. It is here that Corum Jailin Irsi will unleash the mysterious and powerful forces that will end a million-year history...
The boundless Universe is the basis of the creativity of science fiction writers. Since it is infinite - there are any kind of stars, any kind of civilization. An abyss of ideas and plots for works. But that's in science fiction. And in fantasy? Michael Moorcock was one of the first in science fiction to turn to the Multiverse - an infinite number of interconnected universes that live according to the laws of Cosmic Balance. His talent and the brightness of the created images made this model generally accepted. Since then, it has been used by both role-playing game creators and other authors whose heroes travel the paths of Elric and Corum. The main thing in Moorcock's model is versatility: it combines technical, fabulous, mythological, fantasy and realistic, sometimes even documentary. This approach allowed Murcock to make an unprecedented feint: to write any kind of novels, in any genre, any style - and declare a new work a part of the Saga of the Eternal Warrior. And so it turned out to be a one-of-a-kind fantastic series that lasted a lifetime. Literary Great Chinese Wall, in comparison with which even the three-hundred-volume “Horsemeat” fades - after all, the novels of the “Eternal Warrior” cycle are completely different in style, heroes, and sometimes in genres one man. |
To breathe life into this gigantic structure, one had to have a truly outstanding imagination and a flexible mind. Michael Moorcock, writer, editor and critic, publicist, artist and musician, hippie and avant-garde artist, anarchist and defender of eternal values, humanist and inventor of anti-human ideas - turned out to be just that. His eyes saw immensity for the first time, his mind tried to grasp it and convey it to readers. As a result...
| gods and heroes | |||||
Incarnations of eternityMoorcock described about twenty incarnations of the Eternal Warrior. Each of them is dedicated to a story, novel or cycle. This and von Beck family from earth history, And carnelian from the very End Times, and the time traveler Carl Glogauer, and many others. But the main characters of Moorcock, the most popular with readers and significant for the Multiverse - Four Became One. The four most worthy are those who have gone through the brightest life path and at the end of it saved the Multiverse from an external threat. Elric of MelniboneThe ancient race of the Melniboneans ruled over the world for a millennium, until they perished in the feud between the heirs of Elric and Yirkun. Elric, the true crown prince of the empire, was one of the last remaining Melniboneans. From birth, he is weak in body, but strong in spirit. Very sickly and thin, quickly losing strength and living only thanks to magical decoctions, Elric is also an albino. White hair and red eyes complete the prince's demonic appearance. A good swordsman and powerful magician, he would have died long ago due to physical weakness if he had not called on the ancient patron of the Melniboneans, Lord Arioch, the deity of Chaos. Arioch favors Elric and helps him in everything, but thereby tightens the noose of service around the prince's neck. Arioch's main gift was the Black Sword, which brought Elric victory in a duel with Yirkun. This powerful and terrible weapon feeds the prince's frail body with unprecedented strength and stamina, but enslaves his soul and makes him kill. Elric gradually becomes a slave to the sword, a slave to Arioch... but it is not so easy to break the last of the Melniboneans. No wonder they call him the Killer of demons and Gods! The cycle about Elric from Melnibone includes novels and collections of short stories "Dream City", "Pearl Fortress", "Floating on the Sea of Fate", "The White Wolf's Destiny", "The Singing Citadel", "The Vanishing Tower", "Rose's Revenge", " Curse of the Black Sword”, “Stormbringer”, “Elric at the Edge of Time”. As well as the trilogy that Michael Moorcock is currently writing: The Daughter of the Dream Thief, The Skreling Tree, and Son of the White Wolf. Dorian Hawkmun, Duke of CologneEarth, alternate history. The predatory empire of Granbretania conquers one state after another. King-Emperor Chaon sends out his emissaries everywhere, and after them the Animal Orders come to the disobedient. Warriors in armor and animal masks - the Order of the Wolf, Bear, Boar... Granbretania captured most of the lands of Europe, it seems that the power of the Empire cannot be stopped. But the small county of the Camargue, under the leadership of Count Brass for a long time confronts the enemy. In the castle of Brass, a former prisoner of the Granbretans, Dorian Hawkmun, Duke of Cologne, finds freedom and new hope. He goes on a long and full of bright adventures search. His goal is to save the Runestaff, a legendary artifact that controls the fate of the worlds, from the envoys of the Empire. Hawkmoon's path is extremely winding, full of many unusual encounters, unpredictable plot twists and vivid images of a half-magical, half-technogenic Earth, on the expanses of which traces of many ancient civilizations lie ... Hawkmoon's chronicles consist of the following titles: Black Stone, Amulet of the Mad God, Sword of the Dawn, Runestaff, Count Brass, Defender of Garathorm, Quest for Tanelorn. Corum Jailin Irsi, Prince-in-the-Scarlet-RobeThe hordes of Chaos invade the ancient and colorful world, whose inhabitants have long been engaged in the comprehension of truth, beauty and perfection. The ancient races of Vadhagi and Nkhadragi, sleeping in their tranquility, are so quickly exterminated one by one that there can no longer be any talk of any resistance to the hordes by the barbarians. Korum, the prince of one of the Wadhag houses, by a lucky chance escapes captivity and death - the only one from the conquered world. He travels through the plundered dimensions, witnesses the strengthening of Chaos and the overthrow of the Gods of Order. A cripple with a severed hand and a burnt eye, Corum falls into the hands of an old sorcerer who hid in his citadel, and from there wages war with Lord Arioch. The sorcerer gives the prince silver hand, which is capable of crushing stones, but sometimes acts of its own accord, as well as a multifaceted Eye that has power over those killed by the Hand. Corum travels to the Citadel of Chaos to find and destroy the Heart of Arioch. The journey is full of strange events and discoveries that change the prince's view of the universe. Corum will travel through many worlds and become one of the few heroes who have visited Tanelorn, the Eternal City. And, most importantly, according to his will, the eternal war of Order and Chaos will be over... In a very strange way, though. The Chronicles of Corum include the novels The Knight of Swords, The Queen of Swords, The King of Swords, The Bull and the Spear, The Oak and the Ram, The Sword and the Horse. Erikese, the RemembererThis hero, far from the most popular with readers, is one of the key figures in the Moorcock Multiverse. The only Eternal Warrior who remembers all his incarnations, and every day of his life is hellish torment for him. A traitor who has destroyed his own people, who has destroyed all people in his own world, he wanders the worlds, and the only meaning of his existence is to fulfill his destiny and find peace. The Saga opens with the Erikese Chronicles, and perhaps it will be completed with them. The fate of the Rememberer is told in the chronicles “Eternal Warrior”, “Silver Warriors”, “Dragon in the Sword”.
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Michael John Moorcock(Michael John Moorcock) was born on December 18, 1939 in the small town of Mitcham (Surrey) in the family of an engineer. He moved to London as a child and lived there until 1993. The childhood and youth of the writer fell on a special period - the collapse of the British Empire (not so long ago we ourselves experienced something similar - just yesterday we lived in a powerful state, and suddenly, in a couple of years, the empire crumbles to dust). It is from here that the roots of one of the main themes in his work grow - the idea of \u200b\u200bthe eternal, incessant struggle against the advancing Chaos, the story of the destruction of the familiar system of the universe and the long, painful adaptation to the new one.
In fact, having lost his family early (his parents divorced), Moorcock began an independent life as a teenager. After serving in the Royal Air Force, he graduated from the prestigious Pitmans College, after which he plunged headlong into the bohemian life. From a young age, Murcock played the guitar and other instruments well, and Beatlemania, which swept England and the entire Western world at that time, influenced the choice of life path - he participated in the activities of the Hawkwind group (Hawk Wind), in whose repertoire there are many of his own songs and compositions, organized the Deep Fix group, with which he released the album "New World Fair". Moorcock was also fond of politics. In the early 1960s, he joined the radical left and for two years edited the Liberal Party's organ, Current Topics. He later became an anarchist in general and even published in 1983 a scathing non-fiction book, The Retreat from Freedom: The Erosion of Democracy in Modern Britain.
In the early 1960s, the future editor and writer married for the first time (he was married 4 times in total; the last time was in 1983) - to journalist and sci-fi writer Hilary Bailey. He lived with her for 16 years, becoming the father of two daughters and a son. Although the Hawkwind group released about 50 albums, and during the peak of their popularity gathered a considerable audience of fans, Moorcock's finest hour did not come on stage. The future writer greedily absorbed (and peed) science fiction from early childhood. At the same time, Michael very early discovered in himself a rather rare gift - he turned out to be a talented editor.
At first he worked in amateur fanzines, where he himself was actively published (his first magazine was called "The Adventures of Tarzan", and Moorcock headed it at the age of 18). It was on the pages of this self-made edition that Moorcock's first series in the genre of "heroic fantasy" was published, which began in the May 1957 issue with the story "Sojan the sword-bearer" (in 1977, the stories of the series were combined under one cover in the collection "Sojan") . However, the main livelihood was still given by music (he also worked as an editor in a publishing house of detective literature).
Everything changed when Michael met Ted Carnell, editor of many professional British science fiction magazines, spiritual leader and unquestioning authority of British fandom. This meeting was fateful both for Moorcock and for Carnell himself and his brainchild - the leading English science fiction magazine New Worlds, founded back in 1946. At first, Michael himself began to write regularly in the magazines then led by Carnell - "SF Adventures" and "Science Fantasy", and quickly achieved some success with readers - immediately in book editions, and not in periodicals, saw the light of the volume of the "Martian" trilogy, created in imitation of E. R. Burroughs (it came out in 1965 under the pseudonym Edward P. Bradbury). And in 1964, the New Worlds magazine unexpectedly closed, and Carnell left the editorial post. But a few months later, the publication resumed work with a new editor, twenty-four-year-old Michael John Moorcock.
After that, for seven years that shook the world of science fiction, New Worlds became the mouthpiece of a whole literary movement - the so-called. "New Wave". Even in his youth, Moorcock argued passionately with other fans, arguing that modern fiction lacks general literary literacy and culture, as well as a "human dimension" to be called Literature. What he meant by these concepts became clear as soon as he had the opportunity to demonstrate it in the pages of his own magazine. The main basis of the "New Wave" was a sharply aggressive rejection of "classic" science fiction. Therefore, the writers-apologists of the movement represented a rather motley palette of various literary movements that were fashionable at that time. The most famous representatives of the movement, in addition to Moorcock himself, were: the British Brian Aldiss, James Graham Ballard, John Brunner, Michael John Harrison, John Sladek, Christopher Priest and the Americans Thomas Disch, Norman Spinrad, Samuel Delaney, Roger Zelazny and Harlan Ellison (as you can see , authors very different in style).
Throughout the years that Moorcock edited New Worlds, he never stopped writing. But only in the mid-1970s, when the Wave subsided, critics and readers "discovered" a new writer - a very prolific, diverse, consistent in carrying out some of his obsessions, as well as intelligent, ironic and stylistically "equipped" for every taste. From the very first works, he set about creating a completely unprecedented super series, covering, according to the author's intention, all his works. For this, however, it was necessary to develop the concept of the Multiverse (the term was borrowed from the prominent English prose writer John Cowper Powis), in which various parallel worlds coexist, constantly intersecting with each other. The novels of this megacycle are written in different genres - there are "hard" science fiction, and fantasy, and the novel of the absurd, and alternative history, and decadence, and "space opera", and even detective or realistic prose. The heroes of the books freely migrate from novel to novel, eventually forming a rich polyphonic whole (which was in no way facilitated by the frequent rewriting of early works by the author). [All of this makes compiling a bibliography of Moorcock's books a hell of a job!]
Moorcock created several series of rather specific "heroic fantasy". However, the writer never hid that he wrote fantasy series for the sake of money, which he mainly needed to keep his magazine afloat. However, his series turned out to be very non-standard and ambiguous. One has only to take a closer look at his heroes - unlike the supermen of Burroughs, Howard and other founders of "heroic fantasy" who have no doubts, Moorcock's heroes are usually restless, lonely, obsessed with dark passions, phobias and other clearly non-superman qualities. In short, they are people without any prefixes "super" (one can say that it is Moorcock who stands at the source of modern "heroics").
Peru Moorcock also owns a critical work on the fantasy genre, Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy (1989). Currently, Moorcock lives in a small town in Texas (USA, since 1993), in his spare time collecting rare book editions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he also enjoys hiking, music and drawing. He is the recipient of the Nebula Prize, the World Fantasy Award and three British Fantasy Awards. A number of comics and video games have been based on his books.
