Michael Moorcock to write new Doctor Who novel
It has been confirmed that the BBC are in talks with the fantasy author Michael Moorcock in regards to writing a new Doctor Who novel.
Moorcock says on his website that the Doctor Who book will appear in 2010:
"Looks like it’s official, I’ll be doing a new Doctor Who novel (not a tie-in) for appearance, I understand, by next Christmas. Still have to have talks etc with producers and publishers, but we should be signing shortly. Should be fun." (BBC News)
He stressed to Doctor Who fans that he had been watching the television show since it began, and had been approached to write scripts or stories for years because he was known to enjoy it. Moorcock’s own fans were delighted at the news.
In September, Blackadder creator Richard Curtis revealed that he would write an episode of the new series of Doctor Who in 2010.
Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939. After leaving school, he began to contribute professionally to Tarzan Adventures and edited that magazine from 1957 to 1958. He contributed to the Sexton Blake Library and worked for a while as a blues singer before contributing science fiction and fantasy stories to SF Adventure and Science Fantasy. In 1964 he became a hugely influential editor of New Worlds, a position that he held, taking some breaks from it, until 1971 and the effective demise of the magazine. He has always been very prolific and, as the author of Elric, the Eternal Champion, Jerry Cornelius, Colonel Pyat, Karl Glogauer and Gloriana and Mother London, he is unquestionably one of the most important of all UK fantasy and SF writers. Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas.
Posted: November 19th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Michael Moorcock
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