Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic , science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry . It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by its subject matter, rather than by the poetry's form. Suzette Haden Elgin defined the genre as "about a reality that is in some way different from the existing reality."
70-564: The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. The award name was dubbed by Andrew Joron in reference to a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein 's short story " The Green Hills of Earth ". The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines. The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by
140-577: A Doctor Who novel for BBC Books in 2010, one of the few occasions when he has written stories set in other people's "shared universes". The novel The Coming of the Terraphiles was released in October 2010. The story merges Doctor Who with many of Moorcock's characters from the multiverse, notably Captain Cornelius and his pirates. In 2016 Moorcock published the first novel in what he terms
210-653: A 1978 essay, "Starship Stormtroopers" ( Anarchist Review ). There he criticised the production of "authoritarian" fiction by certain canonical writers and Lovecraft for having antisemitic , misogynistic , and racist viewpoints woven into his short stories. Moorcock has allowed other writers to create stories in his fictional Jerry Cornelius universe. Brian Aldiss , Hilary Bailey , M. John Harrison , Norman Spinrad , James Sallis , and Steve Aylett have written such stories. In an interview published in The Internet Review of Science Fiction , Moorcock explains
280-640: A book in 1969 by Allison and Busby ). A new, final revision of almost Moorcock's entire oeuvre, with the exception of his literary novels Mother London , King of the City and the Pyat quartet, is issued by Gollancz and many of his titles are reprinted in the United States by Simon and Schuster and Titan and in France by Gallimard. Many novels and comics based on his work are being reprinted by Titan Books under
350-562: A critical point of his story (this song may also refer to the "Warriors at the Edge of Time", which figure heavily in Moorcock's novels about John Daker; at one point his novel The Dragon in the Sword they call themselves the "veterans of a thousand psychic wars", although the term is also applied to Elric in 2022's "The Citadel of Forgotten Myths"), and " The Great Sun Jester ", about his friend,
420-532: A day and gave myself three days a volume. That's how, for instance, the Hawkmoon books were written." Over the period of the New Worlds editorship and his publishing of the original fantasy novels Moorcock has maintained an interest in the craft of writing and a continuing interest in the semi-journalistic craft of "pulp" authorship. This is reflected in his development of interlocking cycles which hark back to
490-547: A gap in the market taken up by the newly established Asimov's . The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) was founded by Suzette Haden Elgin the following year. In the 1970s, Elgin's colleague Frederick J. Mayer for some time awarded an annual Clark Ashton Smith Award for best fantastic poetry. By 1990, Asimov's remained the major news-stand market, but a diverse array of predominantly US-based small press markets had developed, many lasting several decades, and many choosing purely electronic publication post-2000. This
560-714: A literary experiment blending memoir and fantasy, The Whispering Swarm . In 2018, he announced his completion of the second volume The Woods of Arcady . In 2020, he said he was completing the final Elric novel The Citadel of Forgotten Myths ready for Elric's 60th anniversary in 2021. Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novella Pegging the President was launched in 2018 at Shakespeare and Co , Paris, where he discussed his work with Hari Kunzru and reaffirmed his commitment to literary experiment. The first of an audiobook series of unabridged Elric novels, with new work read by Moorcock, began appearing from AudioRealms; however, Audio Realms
630-507: A long illness. Moorcock abandoned a memoir about his friends Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore because he felt it was too personal. He wrote prose and verse for The Sunday Books first publication in French to accompany a set of unpublished Peake drawings. His book The Metatemporal Detective was published in 2007. His most recent book published first in French is Kaboul , in 2018. In November 2009, Moorcock announced that he would be writing
700-690: A new Deep Fix album in Paris, titled Live at the Terminal Cafe . Following Stone's death in 2016, Moorcock completed the album with producer Don Falcone . In 2019, Moorcock announced the completion of the album, and it was released 11 October 2019, on Cleopatra Records . Moorcock collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind on many occasions: the Hawkwind track " The Black Corridor ", for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of
770-409: A note which often states quite directly that one should serve neither gods nor masters but become one's own master." Besides using fiction to explore his politics, Moorcock also engages in non-violent political activism . In order to "marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten", he has encouraged W H Smiths to move John Norman 's Gor series novels to
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#1732787387254840-421: A number of key weird poets and highlights them while doing so. While weird poetry has appeared in a vast array of anthologies and journals (both professional and small-press), perhaps the first journal devoted exclusively to this form is Spectral Realms. It was founded in 2013 by the editor S.T. Joshi and published by Hippocampus Press. Michael Moorcock Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939)
910-457: A particular focus on reinterpreting and retelling traditional stories. Some of the content in this genre sparks a lot of conversation and thinking. They rose to popularity for their styles revolving around folktales and storytelling aspects. Horror poetry is a subset which, in the same way as horror fiction, concentrates on ghostly, macabre, spectral, supernatural themes. Modern horror poetry may also introduce themes of sadism, violence, gore, and
980-639: A pseudonym, particularly in his "Second Ether" fiction. Moorcock talks about much of his writing in Death Is No Obstacle with Colin Greenland, which is a book-length transcription of interviews with Moorcock about the techniques in his writing. Moorcock has also published pastiches of writers for whom he felt affection as a boy, including Edgar Rice Burroughs , Leigh Brackett , and Robert E. Howard . All his fantasy adventures have elements of satire and parody, while respecting what he considers
1050-676: A script for a computer game/film/novel by Origin Systems . When Electronic Arts bought Origins, the game was cancelled, but Moorcock's 40,000-word treatment was fleshed out by Storm Constantine , resulting in the novel Silverheart . The story is set in Karadur-Shriltasi, a city at the heart of the Multiverse . A second novel, Dragonskin , was in preparation, with Constantine as the main writer, but she died in January 2021, after
1120-636: A trio with Peter Pavli and Drachen Theaker, some Deep Fix recordings were issued on Hawkwind, Friends and Relations and a limited-edition 7" single of "Brothel in Rosenstrasse" backed with "Time Centre", which featured Langdon Jones on piano. In 2008, The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions by Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix was released. These were sessions for planned albums based on two of Moorcock's novels, Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen and The Entropy Tango , which were never completed. Pavli, Moorcock and Falcone are currently in
1190-640: A way of commenting on it. Jerry, as Harrison said, was as much a technique as a character and I'm glad that others have taken to using that method. Two short stories by Keith Roberts , "Coranda" and "The Wreck of the Kissing Bitch", are set in the frozen Matto Grosso plateau of Moorcock's 1969 novel, The Ice Schooner . Elric of Melnibone and Moonglum appear in Karl Edward Wagner 's story "The Gothic Touch", where they meet with Kane , who borrows Elric for his ability to deal with demons. He
1260-515: Is a branch that has either scientists and their work or scientific phenomena as its primary focus; it may also use scientific jargon as metaphor. Important collections in this area include the 1985 anthology of predominantly Science -published poems Songs from Distant Worlds . This area often sees work by mainstream poets, and works on these themes dominated the early years of the Rhysling awards . Mythic poetry deals with myth and folklore, with
1330-866: Is a friend and fan of comic book writer Alan Moore and allowed Moore the use of his own character, Michael Kane of Old Mars, mentioned in Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II . The two appeared on stage at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London in January 2006 where they discussed Moorcock's work. The Green City from Warriors of Mars was also referenced in Larry Niven 's Rainbow Mars . Jerry Cornelius appeared in Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century . Cornelius also appeared in French artist Mœbius ' comic series Le Garage Hermétique . In 1995–96, Moorcock wrote
1400-423: Is an English writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy , who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné , which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s. As editor of
1470-575: Is in common with mainstream written poetry in the US over this time. SFPA (now called the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association ) awards the Rhysling for short- and long-form SF and fantasy poetry awards annually; most winners have been either science fiction or science-themed rather than fantasy or horror. Most Rhysling nominees have been from the small-press poetry journals Dreams & Nightmares , The Magazine of Speculative Poetry , and
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#17327873872541540-708: Is no longer in business. The second audiobook in the series – The Sailor on the Seas of Fate – was published in 2007. There have been audio-books of Corum and others, several of which were unofficial and A Winter Admiral and Furniture are audio versions of short stories. Since then The Whispering Swarm and the Corum books became available via Audible and all the Elric books were scheduled to appear in audio form to coincide with Simon and Schuster's new illustrated set in 2022. Moorcock has his own music project, which records under
1610-580: Is the concept of an " Eternal Champion ", who has multiple identities across alternate universes. This cosmology is called the " Multiverse " within his novels. The Multiverse deals with fundamental polarities, such as Law versus Chaos , and order versus entropy. Elric's success has overshadowed Moorcock's other works, though he has worked the Elric stories' themes into his other works (the "Hawkmoon" and "Corum" novels, for example). His Eternal Champion sequence has been collected in two different editions of omnibus volumes totaling 16 books (the U.S. edition
1680-552: The Arts Council of Great Britain for funding the magazine. In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Moorcock is also a recording musician; he has contributed to the music acts Hawkwind , Blue Öyster Cult , Robert Calvert and Spirits Burning , and to his own project, Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix. Michael Moorcock was born in London in December 1939, and
1750-501: The New Wave movement New Worlds while it was under the editorship of Michael Moorcock between 1964 and 1970, and the annual reprint anthologies of F&SF and The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Judith Merril . These anthologies drew much of their content from mainstream or literary sources. In the 1960s, anthologies of original speculative material began to be published. F&SF ceased accepting poetry in 1977,
1820-611: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association voted to allow poets entry into its organization, for the first time since its 1965 inception. Much of the Romantic poetry of the 19th century used techniques that are seen in modern fantasy literature such as retellings of classical mythology and European folklore , both to show alternative angles in the stories and to explore social issues. Many distinguished poets were women and many of them used folktales as an acceptable social camouflage with which to explore feminist concerns. One of
1890-487: The top shelf . Moorcock began writing while he was still at school, contributing to a magazine he entitled Outlaw's Own from 1950 on. In 1957, at the age of 17, Moorcock became editor of Tarzan Adventures (a national juvenile weekly featuring text and Tarzan comic strip), which had published at least a dozen of his own "Sojan the Swordsman" stories during that year and the next. At the age of 18, in 1958, he wrote
1960-535: The 1930s, science-fictional poetry began publication as a distinct genre in the pulp magazines of the United States. Fantasy-specific Weird Tales (1923–1954) and its brief compatriot Unknown (1939–43) were the only major publishers. They were succeeded by more serious venues including the US-based The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( F&SF ) (1949–), the UK-based flagship of
2030-637: The 60th anniversary of his hero's appearance. He and Simonson produced the graphic novel, Elric: the Making of a Sorcerer , published by DC Comics in 2007. In 2006, he completed his highly praised Colonel Pyat sequence, dealing with the Nazi Holocaust. This began in 1981 with Byzantium Endures , continued through The Laughter of Carthage (1984) and Jerusalem Commands (1992), and culminated with The Vengeance of Rome (2006). His most recent sequence, KABOUL , with illustrations by Miles Hyman,
2100-450: The British " pop art " movement exemplified by Eduardo Paolozzi , Richard Hamilton and others. Paolozzi became "Aviation Editor". During that time, he occasionally wrote as " James Colvin ", a "house pseudonym " originally created for him by John Carnell also used by other New Worlds critics. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by Charles Platt as "William Barclay". Moorcock makes much use of
2170-547: The British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction . He followed this with Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle , a book-length interview about technique, in 1992. Michael Moorcock: Law of Chaos by Jeff Gardiner and Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain by Mark Scroggins were published more recently. In the 1990s, Moorcock moved to Texas in the United States. His wife Linda is American. He spends half of
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2240-522: The British science fiction magazine New Worlds , from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States, leading to the advent of cyberpunk . His publication of Bug Jack Barron (1969) by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament, some British MPs condemned
2310-1077: The City , the Pyat Quartet and the short story collection London Bone have established him in the eyes of critics such as Iain Sinclair , Peter Ackroyd and Allan Massie in publications including The Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books as a major contemporary literary novelist. In 2008 Moorcock was named by a critics' panel in The Times as one of the fifty best British novelists since 1945. Virtually all of his stories are part of his overarching " Eternal Champion " theme or oeuvre , with characters (including Elric) moving from one storyline and fictional universe to another, all of them interconnected (though often only in dreams or visions ). Most of Moorcock's earlier work consisted of short stories and relatively brief novels: he has mentioned that "I could write 15,000 words
2380-556: The Rings for their " Merry England " point of view, equating Tolkien's novel to Winnie-the-Pooh in his essay " Epic Pooh ". Even so, James Cawthorn and Moorcock included The Lord of the Rings in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (Carroll & Graf, 1988), and their review is not dismissive. Moorcock has also criticized writers for their political agendas. He included Robert A. Heinlein and H. P. Lovecraft among this group in
2450-645: The Rockets , and Firing the Cathedral , which was concerned with 9/11. All four novellas were included in the 2003 edition of The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius . Moorcock's most recent Cornelius stories, "Modem Times", appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2 , published in 2008, this was expanded in 2011 as "Modem Times 2.0". Additionally, a version of Cornelius also appeared in Moorcock's 2010 Doctor Who novel The Coming of
2520-755: The SFPA's own journal, Star*Line . Winners are reprinted in the Nebula Awards anthology. The Horror Writers Association has a separate recognition for single-author collections of horror poetry, the Bram Stoker Award , though there is no facility in the Bram Stoker Award to honor anthologies of horror and weird poetry. Science fiction poetry's main sources are the sciences and the literary movement of science fiction prose. Scientifically-informed verse, sometimes termed poetry of science,
2590-467: The Terraphiles . Pegging the President (PS. 2018), The Fracking Factory (on FB, 2018) are two recent novellas and further stories are forthcoming. Moorcock is a fervent supporter of Mervyn Peake 's works. Moorcock is critical of J. R. R. Tolkien 's works. He met both Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in his teens and claims to have liked them personally even though he does not admire them on artistic grounds. Moorcock criticised works such as The Lord of
2660-494: The Vietnam War, and continued to feature another variation of the multiverse theme. The first Jerry Cornelius book, The Final Programme (1968), was made into a feature film in 1973. Its story line is identical to two of the Elric stories: The Dreaming City and The Dead Gods' Book . Since 1998, Moorcock has returned to Cornelius in a series of new stories: The Spencer Inheritance , The Camus Connection , Cheering for
2730-1136: The allegorical fantasy novel The Golden Barge . This remained unpublished until 1980, when it was issued by Savoy Books with an introduction by M. John Harrison . At 19, Moorcock worked on The Sexton Blake Library , a serial pulp fiction featuring Sexton Blake , which The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction referred to as the poor man's Sherlock Holmes . Under Moorcock's leadership, New Worlds became central to "New Wave" science fiction. This movement, not of its own naming, promoted individual vision, literary style and an existential view of technological change, in contrast to generic " hard science fiction ", which extrapolated on technological change itself. Some "New Wave" stories were not recognisable as traditional science fiction, and New Worlds remained controversial for as long as Moorcock edited it. Moorcock claimed that he wanted to publish experimental/literary fiction using techniques and subject matter from generic SF but, initially at least, to marry "popular" and "literary" fiction at what he considered their natural overlap. After 1967, this policy became evident and allied to
2800-502: The background of his multiverse. Moorcock is prone to revising his existing work, with the result that different editions of a given book may contain significant variations. The changes range from simple retitlings (the Elric story The Flame Bringers became The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams in the 1990s Victor Gollancz /White Wolf omnibus editions) to character name changes (such as detective "Minos Aquilinas" becoming first "Minos von Bek" and later "Sam Begg" in three different versions of
2870-613: The band on many occasions, including the Black Sword tour. His contributions were removed from the original release of the Live Chronicles album, recorded on this tour, for legal reasons, but have subsequently appeared on some double-CD versions. He can also be seen performing on the DVD version of Chronicle of the Black Sword . Moorcock also collaborated with former Hawkwind frontman and resident poet, Robert Calvert (who gave
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2940-589: The chilling declamation of "Sonic Attack"), on Calvert's albums Lucky Leif and the Longships and Hype , playing guitar and banjo and singing background vocals with his wife Linda. Moorcock wrote the lyrics to three album tracks by the American band Blue Öyster Cult : " Black Blade ", referring to the sword Stormbringer in the Elric books, " Veteran of the Psychic Wars ", showing us Elric's emotions at
3010-399: The drug community' but made venues and stations wary of booking and playing them. The first album New Worlds Fair was released in 1975. The album included Snowy White , Peter Pavli of The Third Ear Band, regulars Steve Gilmore and Graham Charnock, Moorcock himself on guitars, mandolin and banjo, and a number of Hawkwind regulars in the credits. A second version of the New Worlds album
3080-618: The essentials of the form. Although his heroic fantasies have been his most consistently reprinted books in the United States, he achieved prominence in the UK as a literary author, with the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1977 for The Condition of Muzak , and with Mother London later shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize . Novels and series such as the Cornelius Quartet , Mother London , King of
3150-462: The general title The Michael Moorcock Library, while in France a new adaptation of the Elric and Hawkmoon series has been translated into many languages, including English. Moorcock's best-selling works have been the " Elric of Melniboné " stories. In these, Elric is a deliberate reversal of clichés found in fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien . Central to many of his seminal fantasy novels, including his Elric books,
3220-500: The initials "JC"; these are also the initials of Jesus Christ , the subject of his 1967 Nebula Award -winning novella Behold the Man , which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using " Warwick Colvin, Jr. " as
3290-590: The landscape of London, particularly the area of Notting Hill Gate and Ladbroke Grove , is an important influence in some of his fiction (such as the Cornelius novels). Moorcock has mentioned The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edwin Lester Arnold as the first three non-juvenile books that he read before beginning primary school. The first book he bought
3360-614: The like. One of the most memorable poets that specializes in this genre is Edgar Allan Poe , with works focusing heavily on the macabre and death aspects. His works have made their mark on the future of horror. Weird poetry is a subset. It differs in several important ways from straightforward modern horror poetry. It originally arises from the early 20th century literary tradition of 'the weird' also known as weird fiction , in which certain groups of authors collectively attempted to move beyond tired old stories of haunted castles, graveyard ghosts, and suave vampires. It tends to be concerned with
3430-573: The members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. Until 2022, all nominated works were compiled into an anthology called The Rhysling Anthology , and members of the Association would then vote on the final winners. In 2022, the process was changed such that the nominees are instead presented to a jury, who select no more than 50 finalists for
3500-487: The most celebrated of these poems, Christina Rossetti 's 1862 " Goblin Market ", still remains a relatively popular source of critical debate. Andrew Joron wrote in 1981 that over the past decade in the United States, "it was possible to create a tradition, that established and defined the genre" of science fiction poetry. In common with the gradual recognition of science fiction and fantasy as distinct literary genres in
3570-534: The name Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix . The Deep Fix was the title story of an obscure collection of short stories by James Colvin (a pen name of Moorcock) and was the name of the Jerry Cornelius band. Moorcock's story had dealt with releasing the unconscious, and although it referenced William Burroughs, it was not specifically about illicit drugs. This allegedly lost the band considerable airplay and gave Moorcock what he called 'a great reputation in
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#17327873872543640-494: The options, usually when they seemed to drift too far off course. In February 2019, BBC Studios announced they had secured the rights to the Runestaff series of fantasy novels, which feature Hawkmoon as their hero. Another of Moorcock's creations is Jerry Cornelius , a hip urban adventurer of ambiguous gender ; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books. These books were satirical of modern times, including
3710-607: The origins of fantasy in myth and medieval cycles (see "Wizardry and Wild Romance – Moorcock" and "Death Is No Obstacle – Colin Greenland" for more commentary). This also provides an implicit link with the episodic origins of literature in newspaper/magazine serials from Trollope and Dickens onwards. None of this should be surprising given Moorcock's background in magazine publishing. Since the 1980s, Moorcock has written longer, more literary "mainstream" novels, such as Mother London and Byzantium Endures , but he continued to revisit characters from his earlier works, such as Elric. With
3780-773: The poet Bill Butler, who died of a drug overdose. Moorcock has performed live with BÖC (in 1987 at the Atlanta, GA Dragon Con Convention). Moorcock contributed vocals and harmonica to the Spirits Burning albums An Alien Heat , The Hollow Lands , and The End Of All Songs - Part 1 . Most of the lyrics were taken from or based on text in novels from Moorcock's The Dancers At The End Of Time trilogy. The albums were produced by Spirits Burning leader Don Falcone , and included contributions from Albert Bouchard and other members of Blue Öyster Cult , as well as former members of Hawkwind. Moorcock plays harmonica on three songs on
3850-456: The process of making the intended versions of those songs based on the group's TEAC recordings of the 80s. They are influenced heavily by modern classical music which they look to for inspiration. Moorcock's considerable range is demanded. Moorcock and Pavli have long been advocates for Mahler, Schoenberg, Ives and other 20th century composers. Working with Martin Stone , Moorcock began recording
3920-412: The publication of the third and last book in his Elric Moonbeam Roads sequence, he announced that he was "retiring" from writing heroic fantasy fiction, though he continued to write Elric's adventures as graphic novels with his long-time collaborators Walter Simonson and the late James Cawthorn (1929–2008) and in 2021 announced that he had written a 'straight' Elric novel, within the first canon, for
3990-438: The reason for sharing his character: I came out of popular fiction and Jerry was always meant to be a sort of crystal ball for others to see their own visions in – the stories were designed to work like that – a diving board, to use another analogy, from which to jump into the river and be carried along by it. [...] All of these have tended to use Jerry the way I intended to use him – as a way of seeing modern life and sometimes as
4060-403: The same name , and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time , for which he earned a gold disc. Moorcock also wrote the lyrics to " Sonic Attack ", a Sci-Fi satire of the public information broadcast, that was part of Hawkwind's Space Ritual set. Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels. Moorcock appeared on stage with
4130-648: The short award, and no more than 25 for the long award. Now only these finalist are compiled into the anthology and put to a final vote by the SFPA membership. From 2005 to 2011, the Awards were presented in July at a ceremony at Readercon . In 2022, eligibilty guidleines were changed to exclude peoms also nominated for the Dwarf Stars Award or the Elgin Awards . In 2005, the SFPA published an anthology of
4200-420: The short story "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius"), major textual alterations (for example, the addition of several new chapters to The Steel Tsar in the omnibus editions), and even complete restructurings (as with the 1966 novella Behold the Man being expanded to novel-length and into a novel rather than an SF story recreated from the original version that appeared in New Worlds for republication as
4270-593: The similarity of subject matter, it is often published by the same markets that publish short stories and novellas of science fiction, fantasy and horror , and many authors write both in speculative fiction and speculative poetry. The field has one major award, the Rhysling Award , given annually each to a poem of more than fifty lines and to a sub-fifty line poem by the US-based Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association . In 2023,
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#17327873872544340-413: The subtly uncanny, and is expressed in macabre and serious tones. The atmospheres of a certain place may be evoked, and the narrator may discover certain weird details of that place which arouse a sense of unexplainable dread. Some weird poetry will describe timeless geological forces or the night sky, trying to harness the feeling of dread to a wider and sublime 'cosmic awe' about mankind's insignificance in
4410-459: The universe. Yet the narrators of such poetry tend to be unreliable, and may perhaps be on the edge of madness. They may describe or hint at unreal nature-defying events which occur in otherwise normal places - although without the overt technical explanation found in science fiction, and without the violence and sadism common to modern post-1970 horror. S. T. Joshi 's short book of essays Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry (2008) examines
4480-403: The winning poems, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase . From 1978 to 1994, only a first-place winner was awarded. In 1995, a number of runners up were named and in 1996, a number of "Honorable Mentions" were given. Since 1997, 2nd and 3rd place have also been honored, and from 2020 onward, "Honorable Mentions" have been mentioned once again. Speculative poetry Due to
4550-505: The year in Texas, the other half in Paris , France. Moorcock's works feature political content. In one interview, he states, "I am an anarchist and a pragmatist . My moral/philosophical position is that of an anarchist." In describing how his writing relates to his political philosophy, Moorcock says, "My books frequently deal with aristocratic heroes, gods and so forth. All of them end on
4620-459: Was 15 volumes, while the British edition was 14 volumes, but due to various rights issues, the U.S. edition contained two volumes that were not included in the British edition, and the British edition likewise contained one volume that was not included in the U.S. edition) containing several books per volume, by Victor Gollancz in the UK and by White Wolf Publishing in the US. Several attempts to make an Elric film were made. Moorcock refused to resign
4690-511: Was a secondhand copy of The Pilgrim's Progress . Moorcock is the former husband of the writer Hilary Bailey , with whom he had three children: Sophie (b. 1963), Katherine (b. 1964), and Max (b. 1972). Moorcock is also the former husband of Jill Riches, who later married Robert Calvert . She illustrated some of Moorcock's books, including covers, among them the dustjacket for the first edition of Gloriana ( Allison and Busby , 1978). In 1983, Linda Steele became Moorcock's third wife. He
4760-508: Was an early member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of eight heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s and led by Lin Carter , selected by fantasy credentials alone. Moorcock is the subject of four book-length works, a monograph and an interview, by Colin Greenland . In 1983, Greenland published The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and
4830-724: Was issued in 2004 under the album name Roller Coaster Holiday . A non-album rock single, including Lemmy on bass and Moorcock playing his own Rickenbacker 330/12, "Starcruiser" coupled with "Dodgem Dude", was belatedly issued in 1980 on Flicknife . Although announced to appear at Dingwalls, the performance was cancelled when schedules clashed. The Deep Fix gave a rare live performance at the Roundhouse , London on 18 June 1978 at Nik Turner 's Bohemian Love-In , headlined by Turner's band Sphynx and also featuring Tanz Der Youth with Brian James (ex- The Damned ), Lightning Raiders , Steve Took's Horns , Roger Ruskin and others. In 1982, as
4900-474: Was published in French by Denoel. Among other works by Moorcock are The Dancers at the End of Time , comedies set on Earth millions of years in the future, Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen , which he describes as an argument with Spenser 's The Faerie Queen , set in an alternative Earth history and the "Second Ether" sequence beginning with "BLOOD", mixing absurdism, reminiscence and family memoir against
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