Michael Moorcock was born in 1939 in Mitcham, Surrey, on the outskirts of London. He is an extraordinarily prolific writer of science fiction and heroic fantasy, as well as a literary novelist. In the early years of his life, he lived a distinctly bohemian lifestyle.
At the age of seventeen, Michael Moorcock was already writing Tarzan adventures, and later helped found the Sexton Blake Library. He served as editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds from May 1964 to March 1971, and again from 1976 to 1996.
He also played a major role in encouraging the New Wave movement in speculative fiction, both in Britain and, indirectly, in the United States. Moorcock wrote several books under the pseudonym James Colvin as well.
One of his later literary works, Breakfast in the Ruins, humorously described his own “premature death,” convincing many readers that it was real.
In 1967, his novella Behold the Man won the Nebula Awards award for Best Novella.
His best-known work remains the saga of Elric of Melniboné, which later expanded into numerous sequels and related series.
Published by our house are the Elric series (7 volumes), the Corum series (6 volumes), the Hawkmoon series (4 volumes), and the Erekosë series (3 volumes).
