Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939) is a prolific British writer of both science fiction and science fantasy. He has also published a number of literary novels. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at only sixteen, later moving on to edit Sexton Blake Library. As editor of the controversial 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 New Wave in the UK and indirectly in the U.S. His serialisation of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.

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December 18 - 1939 - British - Science fiction - Fantasy - 1956 - New Worlds - 1964 - 1971 - New Wave - U.S. - Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron - Arts Council

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During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin", a 'house pseudonym' used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin later appeared in New Worlds. Later Breakfast in the Ruins, a literary novel, included an introduction that mentioned Moorcock's early death. Some readers believed it. Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials 'JC', and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 novella Behold the Man.

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Jesus - Christ - 1967 - Novella - Behold the Man

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This work, first published in New Worlds as a novella, tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. It won the Nebula award for the best novella of 1967.

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Time-traveller - Nebula award - 1967

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