The Best of Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock

Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St.

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. Newer work handpicked by an expert editing team includes one previously unpublished story and three uncollected stories. Wells never imagined “The Visible Men,” a recent tale of the ambiguous and androgynous secret agent Jerry Cornelius the trilogy “My Experiences in the Third World War,” where a Russian agent in an alternate Cambodia is powerless to prevent an inevitable march toward nuclear disaster and “A Portrait in Ivory,” a Melibone story of troubled anti-hero Elric and his soul-stealing sword, Stormbringer. Classic offerings include the Nebula Award–winning novella “Behold the Man,” which introduces a time traveler and unlikely messiah that H.G. These exceptional stories range effortlessly from the genre tales that continue to define fantasy to the author’s critically acclaimed mainstream works. In this definitive collection, discover the incomparable stories of one of our most important contemporary writers. Michael Moorcock: Legendary author of the Elric saga, Science Fiction Grand Master, platinum album–receiving rock star, and controversial editor of the new wave fiction movement’s New Worlds.

“He is the master storyteller of our time.” 'Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can.”

The Best of Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock