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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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“Fate is cruel, Oone. It would be better if it provided us with one unaltering path. Instead it forces us to make choices, never to know if those choices were for the best.”

“We are mortals,” she said with a shrug. “That is our particular doom.”
Book 3, Chapter 3 “Celebrations at the Silver Flower Oasis” (p. 267)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

“I now know that legends in themselves have no power. The power comes from the uses that the living make of the legend. The legends merely represent an ideal.”

Book 3, Chapter 2 “The Destruction in the Fortress” (p. 260)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

“We set high store by prophecies here in the desert. It seems that our longing for help might have coloured our reason.”

Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Dreamthief’s Pledge” (p. 181)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

“The albino reflected on the power of the human mind to build a fantasy and then defend it with complete determination as a reality.”

Book 1, Chapter 2 “The Pearl at the Heart of the World” (p. 139)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

“Destiny can contain a few extra threads in her design and still accomplish her original aims.”

Book 3, Chapter 4 “Two Black Swords” (p. 114)
The Elric Cycle, Elric of Melniboné (1972)

“It takes little intelligence to draw the obvious conclusion…”

“Especially if one is blessed with only the barest information concerning other lands and peoples.”
Book 1, Chapter 2 “The Pearl at the Heart of the World” (p. 138)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

“Are you trying to talk peace terms?”

Book 2, Chapter 5 “A Question of Attitudes” (p. 368)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)
Kontext: “I’ve given that up,” said Makhno. “It doesn’t appear to work. You mention peace and everyone tries to shoot you or jail you.”

“We are still ruled, in some ways, by our Church. We are a people more cursed by religion and its manifestations and assumptions than any other. The Steel Tsar, with his messianic socialism, offers us religion again, perhaps. You English have never had quite the same need for God. We have known despair and conquest too often to ignore Him altogether.”

He shrugged. “Old habits, Mr Bastable. Religion is the panacea for defeat. We have a great tendency to rationalize our despair in mystical and utopian terms.”
Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Black Ships” (p. 361)
Oswald Bastable, 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.”

Michael Moorcock Erekosë

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

“Chaos has her moods and whims, that’s all. As I told you, she cannot remain stable. It is in her nature to be forever changing.”

Michael Moorcock Erekosë

“While it is in the nature of Law,” Alisaard explained, “to be forever fixed. The Balance is there to ensure that neither Law nor Chaos ever gain complete ascendancy, for the one offers sterility while the other offers only sensation.”
Book 3, Chapter 1 (p. 626)
Erekosë, The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“You only need fear the bees if you’ve broken the law.”

That familiar phrase was used to justify every encroachment on citizens’ liberty.
Zdroj: Short fiction, The Lost Canal (2013), p. 346

“Time and Matter are both ideas. Matter makes a more immediate impression on Man, but Time’s effects are longer lasting.”

Michael Moorcock kniha The Time Dweller

Zdroj: The Time Dweller (p. 22), Short fiction, The Time Dweller (1969)

“You fail to understand, my friend. We do not control time. If anything, it controls us. We simply measure it.”

Michael Moorcock kniha The Time Dweller

The Time Dweller (p. 15)
Short fiction, The Time Dweller (1969)

“I am already late, I fear. What time is it?”

Michael Moorcock kniha The Time Dweller

“Time? Why the present, of course.”
The Time Dweller (p. 13)
Short fiction, The Time Dweller (1969)

“Any forthcoming dispute was likely to be a battle between ignorance of one sort and ignorance of another.”

Zdroj: The Winds of Limbo aka The Fireclown (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 151)

“Everything dies eventually—but that shouldn’t stop us enjoying life while it is there to be enjoyed.”

Zdroj: The Wrecks of Time aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967), Chapter 6, “Klosterheim on a Mountain” (p. 49)

“Listening to the conversation, his faith in the stupidity of human nature was fully restored.”

Zdroj: The Winds of Limbo aka The Fireclown (1965), Chapter 17 (p. 252)

“Perhaps he was old and wise, perhaps he was just old.”

Zdroj: The Winds of Limbo aka The Fireclown (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 145)

“Some try to understand the world, while others seek to impose their understanding on it.”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

Zdroj: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (pp. 790-791)
Zdroj: The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Kontext: Unfortunately, Mr. Smiles, these latter folk are those least equipped to perform the operation. Like Frankenstein, my dear Mr. Smiles, they produce a monster.

“Better the myth of happiness, than the myth of despair.”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Zdroj: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)

“I was thinking of going into the assassination business. You know what a dreamer I am. Would it be too much of a hit and myth operation, do you think?”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Zdroj: Harlequin Invisible: or, the Emperor of China’s Court (p. 761)

“There’s more to life than drugs and sex.”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Varianta: There’s more than life to drugs and sex. It’s better than nothing.
Zdroj: Harlequin Invisible: or, the Emperor of China’s Court (p. 761)

“Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant.”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Zdroj: With the flag to Pretoria (p. 738)

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