Review
"Moorcock's writing is top-notch." —Publishers Weekly
"The 17 stories in this collection demonstrate the breadth of scope and the excellence in storytelling of sf Grandmaster and multigenre author Moorcock . . . Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can." —Library Journal
"It is all quintessential Moorcock—a wild, fascinating batch of stories fairly balancing the fantastic and the nearly ordinary, and showcasing Moorcock's talent very well, thank you." —Booklist
"A major novelist of enormous ambition." —Washington Post
"Moorcock is a throwback to such outsized 19th-century novelistic talents as Dickens and Tolstoy." —Locus
"No one at the moment in England is doing more to break down the artificial divisions that have grown up in novel writing – realism, surrealism, science fiction, historical fiction, social satire, the poetic novel – than Michael Moorcock." —Angus Wilson
"The spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcock's luminous and captivating web." —Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta
"He is the master storyteller of our time." —Angela Carter, author, Nights at the Circus
Product Description
From the legendary author of the Elric sagas, this definitive collection captures the incomparable short fiction of one of science fiction and literature’s most important contemporary writers. These exceptional stories range effortlessly from the genre tales that continue to define heroic fantasy to the author’s critically acclaimed mainstream works. Classic offerings include "The Visible Men," the trilogy "My Experiences in the Third World War," "A Portrait in Ivory," and the Nebula award-winning novella "Behold the Man." With all of his finest stories finally collected in one volume, this is a long-overdue tribute to an extraordinarily gifted, versatile, and much-beloved author.
About the Author
Michael Moorcock is the author of numerous novels, including the Elric series, Cornelius Quartet, Gloriana, and King of the City. He has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, and British Science Fiction awards and is a Grandmaster of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. As editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds, Moorcock was one of the progenitors of the controversial New Wave movement. His nonfiction works have appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, and New Statesman. He lives in Bastrop, Texas.
