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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In 1997, Moorcock was one of the guests of honor at the Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas and as Guest of Honour at the World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Christie, Texas (2000) received a 'Howie' World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

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1997 - Worldcon - San Antonio, Texas

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In the 1990s, Moorcock moved to Texas in the United States. In 2004, he announced plans to move back to Europe, probably eventually settling in France and Spain.

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1990s - Texas - United States - 2004 - Europe - France - Spain

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