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I was pleasantly surprised. The writing in that article is of a much better standard than that in Moorcock's fiction.

Moorcock's very variable. Dancers at the End of Time is wonderful. Jerry Cornelius is self-congratulatory twaddle.

I owned and read pretty much all of The Eternal Champion "sequence"[0] back in the 80's. Sure, some of the prose wasn't exactly slick, but I found them deeply satisfying and a damn fine fun read.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Champion#The_Eternal_C...

I recently read the Elric books and loved them. A friend said they're the written expression of an airbrushed 70s conversion van, or some heavy metal album cover. They're rough, but alive in a way eg. Sanderson can only glimpse.

Also, Gloriana was great (very different from Elric).

In this vein, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword is probably my favorite; it's direct and raw, like a bare knuckle punch in the face :).

> the written expression of an airbrushed 70s conversion van, or some heavy metal album cover.

Were you aware that Moorcock wrote, performed and toured with Hawkwind in the 70's and 80's? Also Hawkwind's 1985 "Chronicles of the Black Sword"[0] album is largely inspired by the Elric tales.

I've been to see Hawkwind live around 25 times, so I have a bit of a thing for them and Moorcock. If you ever get the chance you should go see them because Dave Brock sadly isn't getting any younger.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicle_of_the_Black_Swo...

He apparantly wrote a number of his novels in very short periods of time https://interestingliterature.com/2014/11/23/michael-moorcoc..., though I'm not sure that is an excuse really.

I totally forgot that he actually mentioned her briefly in that article, thanks.

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