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
The Original Script that Time Forgot
The original script for epic fantasy film The Land That Time Forgot has been discovered following the death of one of the screenwriters. James Cawthorn penned the screenplay with pal Michael Moorcock in the 1970s, from author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1918 novel.
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Handwritten notes and sketches of the imaginary island, Caspak, where the blockbuster was set, are still carefully catalogued with movie posters and review cuttings, in Jim’s collection. Now, following his death his sister Maureen Bell, 71, has opened up the treasure trove of her gifted brother’s achievements.
When James died, aged 78, last month, he was living in a Northbourne Street council house in Gateshead, his fee from the 1975 film long spent. After quitting the RAF in the late 1950s, James teamed up with popular author Michael Moorcock to work on a series of graphic novels, which is how the pair landed the commission to write the screenplay.
Source: The Northern Echo
Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939. He began to write while still at school, starting a magazine, Outlaw’s Own, in 1950. He continued to produce similar fanzines until 1962. After leaving school, he began to contribute professionally to Tarzan Adventures and edited that magazine from 1957 to 1958, writing for it his first heroic fantasy series.
Posted: January 22nd, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Michael Moorcock
January 2009 issue of Locus Magazine now available
The January 2009 issue of Locus Magazine features:
- Interviews with Frederik Pohl and Daryl Gregory
- An obituary and appreciations of Forrest J Ackerman
- News coverage of the publishing industry’s Black Wednesday
- A new column by Cory Doctorow, “Writing in the Age of Distraction”
- Short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Paul Witcover, Carolyn Cushman, and others, of two dozen books by Dan Simmons,Daniel Fox, Bruce Sterling, Neal Asher, Brian Evenson, Holly Phillips, and others.
- Bibliographic listings of the month’s New Books and Magazines published in the US and UK
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Ellen Kushner, Sara Douglass, Patrick Ness, Stephen King, Walter Jon Williams, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, Robert J. Sawyer and many others
Forrest J Ackerman • Appreciations by Arthur Jean Cox, Greg Bear, Stephen Jones, & Alan White •James Cawthorn • Appreciation by Michael Moorcock • George C. Chesbro • Ivan Southall • Richard K. Lyon • Joseph McGee • Johanna Braun & Günter Braun • Adam Sun • Bettie Page
To see the full Table of Contents visit Locus Online.
Posted: January 9th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Latest News, Michael Moorcock, Robert Jordan
Can you help? Michael Moorcock needs special keyboard
Michael Moorcock’s friend Matt Staggs has asked for aid. Staggs says that Moorcock, the author of the multiverse novels needs some help finding an unusual kind of PC keyboard that could make writing easier.
Staggs writes: Michael Moorcock is ailing a bit and he needs help. He’d be able to get a lot more writing done right now if he had a wireless keyboard with large keys that he could use with his PC. He’s been looking around and apparently there are no BIG KEYS keyboards that are wireless. Could that be true? And if it is, could some helpful fan out there build one for him? Surely there’s someone out there who loves Mike’s work and would like to help him. Anyone interested can write to Mike Moorcock care of Jay Babcock at Arthur Magazine — jay at arthurmag dot com.
If you can help, please write so we can have Moorcock writing at full-throttle again.
Source: io9.com
Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939. 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 11th, 2008
Author: Lee
Categories: Michael Moorcock
The Stealer of Souls book review
Elric of Melniboné, the haunted, treacherous and doomed albino sorcerer-prince, is one of the great creations of modern fantasy. An introspective weakling in thrall to his soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, he is yet a hero whose bloody adventures and wanderings lead inexorably to his decisive intervention in the war between the forces of Law and Chaos.
Michael Moorcock heavily influenced David Gemmell and his influence is possibly now more important than his body of work. David Gemmell took the anti-hero to a new level by adding stronger plots, characters and word building and Moorcock’s hand can be seen in the creations of Tad Williams and, in my opinion, Steven Erikson.
Posted: September 7th, 2008
Author: Lee
Categories: Michael Moorcock
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