Michael Moorcock Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain
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Mark Scroggins is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He has published seven previous books of poetry, criticism, and biography, and lives in Boca Raton, Florida.“The young Moorcock made his name with vivid short novels in which doomed swordsmen strutted around surreal landscapes…Moorcock produced a staggering amount of work over a long career…Scroggins does a remarkable job of disentangling the connections between Moorcock at his most pulpy and his most serious-minded, to the extent that, whether channeling Dickensian or a Modernist spirit, the Eternal Champion continues to lurk behind his elegant prose”—<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>; “Incisive, illuminating and full of good sense, Mark Scroggins’ stimulating book told me a lot about my own work! Thanks!”—Michael Moorcock; “comprehensive, interesting and complex study”—<i>Robots & Dragons</i>.
Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central figure of the "New Wave" in science fiction, and has won numerous awards for his fantasy and SF, as well as his "mainstream" writing.
This first full-length critical look at Moorcock's career, from the early 1960s to the present, explores the author's fictional multiverse: his fantasy tales of the "Eternal Champion"; his experimental Jerry Cornelius novels; the hilarious science-fiction satire of his "End of Time" books; and his complex meditations on 20th century history in Mother London and the Colonel Pyat tetralogy.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. The Multiverse and the Champion
2. A Messiah for the Age of Entropy
3. New Avatars, New Time Streams and a Farewell to Fantasy
4. Reality and Its Bitter Myths
5. Consolidating the Multiverse
6. The Second Ether, the Moonbeam Roads and Beyond
Conclusion
Appendix: The Eternal Champion Omnibus Editions
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index