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Michael John Moorcock – brytyjski pisarz science-fiction oraz fantasy. Laureat Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award w 2008 r. oraz wielu innych nagród w dziedzinie fantastyki.

Michael Moorcock pisarstwem zajął się już w wieku 15 lat. Wymyślał oraz spisywał historie i wysyłał je do obrazkowego magazynu „Tarzan Adventures”. Wkrótce podjął próbę pisania prozą, udaną, gdyż jego opowiadania opublikowano w wielu liczących się czasopismach o tematyce science-fiction i fantasy. W krótkim czasie stał się znanym i cenionym pisarzem.

W 1964 roku otrzymał propozycję pracy w wydawnictwie „New Worlds” na stanowisku redaktora naczelnego, którą przyjął. Jego działalność wyznaczyła drogę rozwoju ówczesnej fantastyce . Sukces owych przeobrażeń zapewniały znakomite publikacje oraz oddana współpraca Briana Aldissa i J.G. Ballarda.

W latach 80. Moorcock porzucił pisanie opowiadań i powieści fantastycznych, skoncentrował się na historiach wojennych. Do jego najwybitniejszych książek z tego okresu należy zaliczyć „The War Hound” i „World's Pain”, a także nowele z serii „Between Wars” nawiązujące do holocaustu II wojny światowej.

Ostatnio Moorcock powrócił do pisania bardziej na gruncie fantastyki, mimo że jak sam mówi, nie przepada za SF i nie lubi środowiska fanów. Pod względem światopoglądowym uważa się za anarchistę. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Grudzień 1939   •   Natępne imiona مایکل مورکوک, Μάικλ Μούρκοκ
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Michael Moorcock: Cytaty po angielsku

“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”

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Michael Moorcock

“Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful”

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Michael Moorcock książka Elric of Melniboné

Źródło: Elric of Melniboné

“There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Land Leviathan

Book 1, Chapter 6 “A Haven of Civilization” (p. 214)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

“Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They’ve become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can’t survive without it.”

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Michael Moorcock

Źródło: Short fiction, London Bone (1997), p. 423

““So you are still our Master,” said Sabrina. She was frowning. She had come to be afraid again.
“Not so!” Lucifer turned, almost in rage. “You are your own masters. Your destiny is yours. Your lives are your own. Do you not see that this means an end to the miraculous? You are at the beginning of a new age for Man, an age of investigation and analysis.”
“The Age of Lucifer,” I said, echoing some of His own irony.
He saw the joke in it. He smiled.
“Man, whether he be Christian or pagan, must lean to rule himself, to understand himself, to take responsibility for himself. There can be no Armageddon now. If Man is destroyed, he shall have destroyed himself.”
“So we are to live without aid,” said Sabrina. Her face was clearing.
“And without hindrance,” said Lucifer. “It will be your fellows, your children and their children who will find the Cure for the World’s Pain.”
“Or perish in the attempt,” said I.
“It is a fair risk,” said Lucifer. “And you must remember, von Bek, that it is in my interest that you succeed. I have wisdom and knowledge at your disposal. I always had that gift for Man. And now that I may give it freely I choose not to do so. Each fragment of wisdom shall be earned. And it shall be hard-earned, captain.””

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

Źródło: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)

“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”

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Michael Moorcock

Źródło: Elric: The Stealer of Souls

“You have no proof of this,” I said.
“No. But a theory must be tested to be disproved, Mr Bastable.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 8 “A Decision in Cold Blood” (p. 233)
Oswald Bastable, The Land Leviathan (1974)

“How paltry is the thing they call science. We have something far superior! We have Faith. We have a Force greater than Reason! We have a wisdom beyond mere knowledge. We have the Holy Grail itself. The Chalice of Limitless Power!”

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Book 3, Chapter 2 (p. 642; words spoken by Hitler)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Oh, I believe very much in cause and effect,” she said, “but not in the linear sense. Every action has a proliferation of consequences. We can’t remain alive without being responsible for thousands of actions and their consequences. We simply have to live with that fact and decide, morally if you like, how to formulate a civilized, secure environment for ourselves. So far we haven’t succeeded.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 410)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Like most fanatics,” I pointed out coolly, “you share at least one characteristic with children—you want everything now. All improvements take time. You cannot make the world perfect overnight. Things are considerably better for more people today than they were in my—in the early years of this century, for instance.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 1 “General O. T. Shaw” (p. 92)
Oswald Bastable, The Warlord of the Air (1971)

“The soldier shook his head, waxing philosophical. “It’s a madness, sir. We’ve all got it. It could go on until the last human being crawls away from the body of the chap he’s just bashed to bits with a stone. That’s what war is, sir—madness. You don’t think about what you’re doing. You forget, don’t you—you just go on killing and killing.””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Land Leviathan

Book 1, Chapter 2 “The Dream—and the Nightmare—of the Chilean Wizard” (p. 187)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

“It is many years since I have wielded a weapon larger than a pen, borne anything weightier than a difficult problem in philosophy.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Runestaff

Book 3, Chapter 5 “Five Heroes and a Heroine” (p. 467)
The Runestaff (1969)

“By acting as they would act, we become what they are. And if we are what they are, then there is little point in resisting them!”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 564)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Again that smile of exquisite and self-congratulatory piety.”

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

Źródło: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 8 (p. 98)

“I would be grateful if I was allowed to work out my own destiny for once,” I said. “For good or ill.”

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Michael Moorcock Erekosë

Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Chapter 4 “The Lady of the Chalice” (p. 416)
Erekosë, Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

“The hardest compromise to make is when you decide to appear to compromise. Often the deception becomes the reality long before you realize it.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Mad God's Amulet

Źródło: Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160), The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

““Are you still afraid?” I asked her.
“No,” she said, “I am thankful. The world has been threatened too long by the extraordinary, the supernatural and the monstrous. I shall be happy enough to smell the pines and hear the song of the thrush. And to be with you, Captain von Bek.”
“The world is still threatened,” I said to her, “but perhaps not by Lucifer. I held her hand tightly.”

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

Źródło: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)

“Here the idea of God has been replaced by the idea of the Future. The two notions are, admittedly, all but identical in the way in which they are self-contradictory and thus always fundamentally confusing to their worshippers, who must look to priests for translation, and so inevitably the priests (or whatever they call them) gradually take power…”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 413)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“He was a fool,” said Willow calmly to Klein. “There are many who refuse their responsibilities. Fooling themselves they search for a ‘higher ideal’. He was a fool.”
“What are responsibilities?” said Klein laconically. “He knows. Responsibility, my dear, is another word for self-interest. For survival.”

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She looked at Klein uncomprehendingly.
Źródło: The Sundered Worlds (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 206)

“Warlocks and witches debate to determine how to make their broomsticks fly again. But how shall they ever come together in strength? Even if your ideas had any truth, they’re so frequently, by their very character, at odds. Each claims to hold the key to the only wisdom. That’s where natural philosophers, who do not impose what they need to believe (or at least not so readily!) upon the world, but analyze what they see, have the strong advantage.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 9 (p. 310)

““I shall not be killed!” The count smiled scornfully, as if death were something that only others suffered.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Jewel in the Skull

The Jewel in the Skull (1967)
Źródło: Book 1, Chapter 2 “Yisselda and Bowgentle” (p. 13)

“It’s never ‘should’ with engineers, my old friend, but ‘how’? Have you not learned that much?”

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Źródło: The von Bek family, The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 231)

“At that moment I railed against a God who could condemn such an innocent soul to Purgatory. What had Sedenko done that was not the result of his upbringing or his religion, which encouraged him to kill in the name of Christ? It came to me that perhaps God had become senile, that He had lost His memory and no longer remembered the purpose of placing Man on Earth. He had become petulant, He had become whimsical. He retained His power over us, but could no longer be appealed to. And where was His Son, who had been sent to redeem us? Was God’s Plan not so much mysterious as impossible for us to accept: because it was a malevolent one?”

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

Źródło: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 7 (pp. 85-86)

““In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”

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

Źródło: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)

“I had always claimed to welcome the truth; yet now, in common with most of us, I was resentful of the truth because it called upon me to take an unwelcome course of action.”

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

Źródło: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 55)

“I was wondering what made a decent English army officer turn into a desperate revolutionist overnight,” I smiled.
“It happens to many like that,” he said. “I have seen them. But you have to show them so much injustice first… Nobody wants to believe that the world is cruel—or that one’s own kind are cruel. Not to know cruelty is to remain innocent, eh? And we should all like to remain innocent. A revolutionist is a man who, perhaps, fails to keep his innocence but so desperately wants it back that he seeks to create a world where all shall be innocent in that way.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 7 “Project NFB” (p. 135)
Oswald Bastable, The Warlord of the Air (1971)

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