Quotes About Michael Moorcock

Certainly, forties science fiction can be seen as a reaction to or against the vision of a single man, John W. Campbell; in the fifties, H L Gold, Fred Phol, Anthony Boucher and a few others began to solicit stories and propound a science fiction of satire and doom, and in the sixties, Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison, by pressuring for and proclaiming a literature of catastrophe, got a great deal of it.

And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men.

This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.

Meaning, Elric? Do not seek that, for madness lies in such a course.

And that is one thing that no amount of freedom or "licence" or "permissiveness" or whatever the old fogies call it can cope with. That is the odd assumption found in the twentieth century (I wonder if you who read this will know what those two stupid words mean?):

Tanelorn had taken many forms in her endless existence, but all those forms, save one, had been beautiful.

One day you will be taught that neutrality is more dangerous than side-taking, renegade. ~ Arioch, Lord of the Seven Darks.

Once, it was said, the whole city had been sentient, the most intelligent being in the universe, but now it was senile and even its memories were fragmented.

Relaxed, I lit a spliff.

By Elric's Sword!" Jhary groaned. "Those are the Chariots of Chaos. I should have guessed!

As disorienting as The Final Programme was, however, its relentless novelty was undercut by a peculiar familiarity: Cornelius's exploits mirrored those of Elric of Melniboné almost exactly, blow for blow. Even a minor character like the Melnibonéan servant Tanglebones could turn up anagrammatized as the Cornelius family's retainer John Gnatbeelson.