Michael Moorcock To Be Awarded SF Prize

According to Shelf Awareness of Monday, March 3, 2008, "Michael Moorcock will be honored as the next Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America during its Nebula Award Weekend in Austin, Tex., April 25-27." Click here for more about the 2008 Nebula Awards.

The SFWA wrote: "Named one of the 50 greatest postwar British writers by
the Times of London, Moorcock is best-known for his stories featuring
the albino swordsman Elric of Melnibone. Other popular characters
created by the prolific Moorcock include Jerry Cornelius and Hawkmoon,
characters that, like Elric, are linked by their stories in what has
come to be known as the Eternal Champion cycle."

Some of the Moorcock titles to be found in Harford County Public Library:

Elric: The Stealer of Souls Find this book in our catalog.
Jacket Notes:
Over the years since he first appeared, Elric of Melnibon has spawned role-playing games, comic books, and numerous imitators. Now this first of six illustrated omnibus volumes brings back the classic fantasy tales of Elric, out of print for more than a decade.

City of the Beast: Or Warriors of Mars Find this book in our catalog.
Jacket Notes:
Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion returns as Kane of Old Mars, a brilliant American physicist whose strange experiments in matter transmission catapult him across space and time to the Red Planet. Kane's is a Mars of the distant past - a place of romantic civilizations, fabulous many-spired cities and the gorgeous princess Shizala. To win her hand and bring peace to Mars, Kane must defeat the terrible Blue Giants of the Argzoon, whose ravaging hordes threaten the whole planet!

The White Wolf's Son: The Albino Underground Find this book in our catalog.
REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 05/23/2005
In British author Moorcock's latest installment in an epic fantasy saga that began in 1965, Prince Gaynor the Damned and his sidekick, Klosterheim, plot the end of the created universe and try to capture a 12-year-old English girl, Oonagh von Bek, to attain their ends. The Dreamthief's daughter, Oona (who's Oonagh's grandmother); Elric of Melnibon; and others who constantly fight to restore, maintain and sometimes destroy the Cosmic Balance seek to protect the girl and, eventually, another youngster kin to Elric and Oona. Told from the viewpoint of young Oonagh and filtered through her later adult perspective, the adventure starts in Yorkshire then spans the multiverse and several versions of Mirenburg to reach its climax in the Dark Empire of Granbretan. Informative philosophizing by various characters adds to, rather than impedes, the complex and entertaining plot. In lesser hands such intrusions as Una Persson's spiel on Elric's Dream of a Thousand Years probably wouldn't work, but from the ever original, vastly influential Moorcock (The Dreamthief's Daughter ), they only enhance a triumph of mature talent and imagination.