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Michael John Moorcock is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and 70s.

As editor of 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. His publication of Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament some British MPs condemned the Arts Council for funding the magazine. He is also a successful recording musician, contributing to the bands Hawkwind, Blue Öyster Cult and his own project.

In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Wikipedia  

✵ 18. december 1939   •   Ďalšie mená مایکل مورکوک, Μάικλ Μούρκοκ
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“The captain seemed mad. Perhaps he did not enjoy his trade. Many soldiers did not, when real warfare developed.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Steel Tsar

Book 1, Chapter 10 “Lost Hopes” (p. 336)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“But we are all victims, Captain Bastable, just as in other ways we are all aggressors. At root we are victims to the comforting lies we tell ourselves, of our willingness to shift moral responsibility onto leaders, organized religion—onto a deity or a race, if all else fails. Onto God, onto politicians, onto creatures from other planets. It is always the same impulse, to refuse responsibility. If we do not take responsibility for our own actions, ultimately we perish.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (p. 395)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“All Empires fall,
All ages die,
All strife shall be in vain.
All Kings go down,
All hope must fail,
But Tanelorn remains—
Our Tanelorn remains…”

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Michael Moorcock kniha Phoenix in Obsidian

Book 2 “The Champion’s Road” Chapter 5 “The Black Sword” (p. 365)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

“Once rich, moreover, I should again travel easily about Europe, for while in the public eye a poor radical is dangerous rogue, a rich radical is merely an eccentric gentleman!”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 181)

“His stated principle is that all knowledge should be at the public disposal. He argues against the hoarding of scientific discoveries, believing that the miserly act of secretion is in itself bound to produce fear and unnecessary caution in the mind of the citizen. Superstitious destruction of the unfamiliar is its most common expression. Prince Badehoff-Fischer argues that in such matters a secret is parallel, if not identical, to a lie. Both occur because one body seeks power over another.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 226)

“Time is at once an agony of the Present, a long torment of the Past and the terrible prospect of countless Futures. Time is also a complex of subtly intersecting realities, of unguessable consequences and undiscoverable causes, of profound tensions and dependencies.”

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Michael Moorcock

Prologue (p. 463)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

““Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”
“The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.””

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 377)

“And then he pursed his lips in disgust. “Doubtless that was the result of supernatural interference with our brains! How I hate the supernatural!””

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Runestaff

Book 1, Chapter 5 “A City of Glowing Shadows” (p. 406)
The Runestaff (1969)

“Tyrants hate original thinking.”

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Michael Moorcock

The Warlord of the Air (1971)
Zdroj: Book 3, Chapter 3 “Chi’ng Che’eng Ta-Chia” (p. 106)

“I must believe you doomed to eternal life, but also to eternal repetition! Your true doom is simple to me. You lack brains, Sir.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 376)

“It’s all a question of power and rarely a question of justice.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Steel Tsar

Book 1, Chapter 8 “The Message” (p. 324)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“She was grumbling. “The least he could have done was drop us near a town. Although in these parts they’d probably burn us as witches before asking any questions.” She shuddered. “I’m an awful snob about peasants, I’m afraid.”
I mentioned dryly that I thought those of her political persuasion had some sort of egalitarian duty to resist such prejudice. “Egalitarianism isn’t about prejudices,” she said, “it’s about equal shares of power. It’s the only means we have of steering some sort of even course through a future which is forever, by the very nature of the multiverse, unguessable. We have only institutions and a crude, fragile kind of democracy standing between us and absolute Chaos. That is why we must value and protect those institutions. And be forever reexamining them.””

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 419)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

““There could be an end to all this, when the Lords of the Higher Worlds and all the machinery of cosmic mystery shall be no more. And perhaps that is why they fear mortals so much. The secret of their destruction, I suspect, lies in us, though we have yet to realize our own power.”
“And do you have a hint of what that power may be, Eternal Champion?” said Alisaard.
I smiled. “I think it is simply the power to conceive of a multiverse which has no need of the supernatural, which, indeed, could abolish it if so desired!””

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 2 (p. 646)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Nothing is known for certain, Isarda. All knowledge is illusion—purpose is a meaningless word, a mere sound, a reassuring fragment of melody in a cacophony of clashing chords. All is flux—matter is like these jewels. (She throws a handful of gleaming gems upon the golden surface; they scatter. When the last jewel has ceased to move, she looks up at him.) Sometimes they fall into a rough pattern, usually they do not. So as this moment, a pattern has been formed—you and I stand here speaking. But at any moment that which constitutes our beings may be scattered again.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha Phoenix in Obsidian

Prologue (p. 321)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

“She is in other words a classic demagogue,” said von Bek…“It was Hitler’s secret that he could seem one thing to one group and an entirely different thing to another. That is how they rise so swiftly to power. These creatures are bizarre. They can virtually change shape and colour. They have an amophous quality and yet at the same time they have a will to dominate others which is unrelenting, almost their only consistent trait, their only reality.”

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Michael Moorcock Erekosë

Book 2, Chapter 9 (p. 612)
Erekosë, The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“I stared at the water and saw the clouds reflected in it, saw them break to reveal the moon. It was the same moon I had known as John Daker. The same bland face could be made out staring down in contentment at the antics of the creatures of the planet it circled. How many disasters had that moon witnessed? How many foolish crusades? How many wars and battles and murders?”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Eternal Champion

Zdroj: The Eternal Champion (1970), Chapter 9 “At Noonos” (p. 50)

““I understand you now. But surely, if Lucifer is successful, we shall all be saved.”
The Wildgrave’s smile was bitter. “What logic provides you with that hope, von Bek? If God is merciful, He provides us with little evidence.””

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Michael Moorcock kniha The War Hound and the World's Pain

Zdroj: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 6 (p. 79)

“This could be the beginning of Civil War. There is no kind more distressing, no kind which so rapidly describes the pointlessness of human killing human. I have been fated, for a reason I cannot comprehend or for no reason at all, to witness the worst examples of insane warfare (and all warfare, it seems to me now, is that) and having to listen to the most ridiculous explanations as to its “necessity” from otherwise perfectly rational people, I have long since become weary, Moorcock, of the debate. If I appear to you to be in a more reconciled mood than when your grandfather first met me it is because I have learned that no individual is responsible for War—that we are all, at the same time, individually responsible for the ills of the human condition. In learning this, (and I am about to tell you how I learned it) I also learned a certain tolerance for myself and for others which I had never previously possessed.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Black Ships” (p. 359)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“To me politics is just a matter of getting the engineering right. If you have a machine which functions properly without much attention, then it’s obviously a good machine. That’s what politics should be about. And if the machine has simple working parts which any layman can understand, then it’s, as it were, your democratic machine. Am I right or am I wrong?”
“Crazy,” said Makhno, and scratched his nose.
“What?”

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Michael Moorcock

“You’re not right or wrong. You’re crazy.”
Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Camp on Rishiri” (p. 342)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Your imagination is notoriously poor. Not everyone holds identical ambitions to your own!”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 560)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“In other words, the listener’s own picture was painted in the shining coulours St Odhran provided. By seeing what they wished, they also saw what he wished them to see. “They are the Orchestra,” he had told me earlier, “and I am merely the Conductor.””

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 269)

“If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn’t the people at the bottom think the same?”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Eternal Champion

Introduction (p. viii)
The Eternal Champion (1970)

“My own self-deception at least promised some kind of pleasure. Theirs offered nothing but terror and guilt.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 375)

“Light suddenly caught the steel of his helmet and made it burn like the face of some mighty fallen angel. It could have been the face of Lucifer himself. I felt then that he was perfectly capable of destroying the whole world without a shred of remorse if he believed that he could not, himself, go on living. Such creatures, I remember thinking, have always dwelt among us. They would reduce the multiverse to ash, if they could. Why, I agonized, can we not recognize them and stop them before they achieve so much power? A tiny part of the human race was responsible for the misery of the majority.
I thought again of the injustices which we ourselves casually perpetrated and I wondered how we should ever set anything to rights while we continued to allow such vast discrepancy, so much at odds with the religious and political principles we claim as our daily guides.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (p. 386)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Her smile was all pride. I had seen many like her in the past. She believed herself cleverer than she was because it suited others to let her maintain that delusion.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 561)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

““You fought well and you fought for justice.”
“Justice?” Hawkmoon called after him as he left the room. “Is there such a thing?”
“It can be manufactured in small quantities,” Fank told him. “But we have to work hard, fight well and use great wisdom to produce just a tiny amount.””

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Runestaff

Book 3, Chapter 17 “The Sad Queen” (p. 501)
The Runestaff (1969)

“My instinct shouted “Conspiracy” but my head reasoned “Coincidence.””

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Michael Moorcock

Zdroj: The von Bek family, The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 291)

“No denial would convince you,” D’Averc smiled, “so I will not offer you one.”

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Michael Moorcock The History of the Runestaff

Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Waiting Warrior” (p. 185)
The History of the Runestaff, The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

“For this was the great power of the Lords of the Dark Empire, that they valued nothing on all the Earth, no human quality, nothing within or without themselves. The spreading of conquest and desolation, of terror and torment, was their staple entertainment, a means of employing their hours until their spans of life were ended. For them, warfare was merely the most satisfactory way of easing their ennui…”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The Sword of the Dawn

Book 1, Chapter 1 “The Last City” (p. 259)
The Sword of the Dawn (1968)

“The English, I now know, eat mashed fish and deviled sheep’s hearts to guarantee a bad digestion (and consequent irritability). It is their abominable cooking which has given them half the world as their Empire.”

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Michael Moorcock kniha The City in the Autumn Stars

Zdroj: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 245)

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