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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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“Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence—perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.”

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Michael Moorcock książka Phoenix in Obsidian

Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)
Źródło: Book 2 “The Champion’s Road” Chapter 3 “The Lord Spiritual” (p. 354)

“Only Bowgentle, the philosopher-poet, his old friend, had an inkling of what he meant and even then Bowgentle believed that it reflected not on the nature of the landscape but on the particular nature of Count Brass’s mind.
“You’re exhausted, disorientated,” Bowgentle would say. “The ordering mechanism of the brain is working too hard, so you see a pattern to existence that, in fact, only stems from your own weariness and disturbance…””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Sword of the Dawn

Book 1, Chapter 2 “The Flamingoes’ Dance” (p. 261)
The Sword of the Dawn (1968)

“I looked down at her shriveled corpse. It lay across that of her brother. One had represented the evil of the world, the other the good. Yet both had been defeated by pride, by ambition, by a promise of immortality.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 4 (p. 669)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Knowledge ceases to be wisdom when one has no method for making sense or use of what one learns.”

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Źródło: Book 2, Chapter 7 (p. 591), The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Gandhi had been right. There was only one way to behave, even if it seemed, in the short term, against one’s self-interest. Surely it was in one’s self-interest in the long term to exhibit generosity, humanity, kindness and a sense of justice to one’s fellow men. It was cynicism of Beesley’s kind which had, after all, led to the threatened extinction of the whole human race. There could be no such thing s a “righteous” war, for war was by its very nature an act of injustice against the individual, but there could be such a thing as an “unrighteous” war—an evil war, a war begun by men who were utterly corrupt, both morally and intellectually. I had begun to think that it was a definition of those who would make war—that whatever motives they claimed, whatever ideals they promoted, whatever “threat” they referred to, they could not be excused—because of their actions they could only be of a degenerate and immoral character.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Land Leviathan

Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Triumphant Beast” (p. 262)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

“Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant!”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 361)

““I think you serve a great purpose, Hawkmoon. I think your destiny is a noble one.”
Hawkmoon laughed. “And yet I do not pine for a noble destiny—merely a secure one.””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Sword of the Dawn

The Sword of the Dawn (1968)
Źródło: Book 2, Chapter 11 “The Parting” (p. 380)

“It’s getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I’ve drowned and be celebrating.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Eternal Champion

Źródło: The Eternal Champion (1970), Chapter 10 “First Sight of the Eldren” (p. 58)

““I have heard it said it is often safer to dwell in the lion’s lair than outside it,” Oladahn said.
“Safer still to live in a land where there are no lions,” Count Brass retorted.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Sword of the Dawn

Book 1, Chapter 9 “Interlude at Castle Brass” (p. 291)
The Sword of the Dawn (1968)

“I knew that it was human nature which lay at the root of History and that no matter where I found myself I was bound to discover superficial similarities expressing and exemplifying that nature. It was human idealism and human impatience and human despair which continued to produce these terrible wars. Human virtues and vices, mixed and confused in individuals, created what we called “History”. Yet I could see no way in which the vicious circle of aspiration and desperation might ever be broken. We were all victims of our own imagination.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Camp on Rishiri” (p. 339)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

““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.”
“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.””

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Book 3, Chapter 1 (p. 626)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Machine-devoured, all his hours were given o’er to that insidious circuitry, and old grew he, unnoticing, in the service of his engines.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Sword of the Dawn

Book 1, Chapter 3 “Elvereza Tozer” (p. 269)
The Sword of the Dawn (1968)

““Evil flourishes best in disguise,” said Otto grimly. His companions nodded in assent.
“And the best disguise is simple” said the youth, Federit Shaus. “Honest patriotism. Joyful idealism.”
“You’re a cynic, lad,” von Bek smiled at him. “But sadly my own experience would support your view. Show me a man who cries ‘my country right or wrong’, and I’ll show you one who’d cheerfully murder half his own nation in the name of patriotism.””

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Book 2, Chapter 3 (p. 550)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

““Petersburg socialism seems cold to the likes of our Cossacks, who would rather worship personalities than embrace ideas.”
I shared his irony. “You make them sound like Americans.””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

The Steel Tsar (1981)
Źródło: Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Black Ships” (p. 361)

“Do not speculate, Sedenko, on things for which no evidence exists. You will waste your time.”

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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 9 (p. 103)

“I understood that it was only the very best in us, our capacity for love and self-respect, that enabled us to survive in a perpetually fragmenting multiverse. Only our deepest sense of justice allowed us to remain sane and relish the wonders of chaotic Time and Space, to be free at least of fear. Further violence would bring only an endless chain of bloodshed and an inevitable descent of our race into bestiality and ultimate insentience. To survive, we must love.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (pp. 388-389)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Women are always underestimated by men,” said Alisaard, a note of satisfaction in her voice, “and this enables them sometimes to gather far more power to themselves than the men suspect.”

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Michael Moorcock Erekosë

Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 557)
Erekosë, The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“It remained difficult for me to understand how some people are simply born mentally deformed, lacking all the natural moral restraints and imagination which dictate the actions of most of us, however partially. Such creatures have learned from childhood to ape the appropriate sentiments when it suits them, to charm or bully their opponents, to agree to anything, to tell any lie and to pursue their own ends with implacable determination.
“Such men and women are the true aliens amongst you and it is ironic how frequently we come to rule you. We use your very best instincts and deepest emotions against you. We convince you that we alone can satisfy your need for security and comfort and then we drain you dry of everything save perpetual terror. Ha, ha, ha!””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (p. 389)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“If you were to believe all the old, degenerate German legends, there’s a Grail in every castle, a Charlemagne or an Arthur under every mound! There not a noble house without at least one werewolf offspring or a younger son who’s made a pact with the Devil, an uncle practising the profane arts of alchemy, a vampirical grandfather, a mad monk, a ruined abbey in the grounds where witches meet, an incarcerated lunatic (or heiress—or both), an infanticide or two (and a patricide), and, of course, a family ghost.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 263)

“The time has come for the dismantling of fantasies. That is already happening to our universe. Now that we have this one chance of survival we must finally rid ourselves of fantasies and seize that chance!
For centuries our race has built on false assumptions. If you build a fantasy based on a false assumption and continue to build on such a fantasy, your whole existence becomes a lie which you implant in others who are too lazy or too busy to question its truth.
In this manner you threaten the very existence of reality, because, by refusing to obey its laws, those laws engulf and destroy you. The human race has for too long been manufacturing convenient fantasies and calling them laws. For ages this was so. Take war, for instance. Politicians assume that something is true, assume that strife is inevitable, and by building on such false assumptions, lo and behold, they create further wars which they have, ostensibly, sought to prevent.
We have, until now, accepted too many fantasies as being truths, too many truths as fantasies. And we have one last chance to discover the real nature of our existence. I am prepared to take it!”

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Źródło: The Sundered Worlds (1965), Chapter 7 (pp. 229-230)

“I had learned, after all, to trust neither religion nor politics and to put my faith in the realities of metal, wood and steam, in practical engineering, whose rules could neither be changed nor made the subject of morality, so why should I show reverence for mere antiquity?”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 262)

“He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 407)

“Like so many fanatics, he possessed an appalling streak of timidity and terror which feared all that was not absolutely familiar. As his power increased, he would doubtless attempt to destroy anything that made him anxious.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (p. 384)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 283)

““And is adventure and sensation all we should seek, Meliadus?”
“Aye—why not? All is chaos, there is no meaning to existence, there is only one advantage to living one’s life and that is to discover all the sensations the human mind and body is capable of feeling.””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Runestaff

Źródło: Book 2, Chapter 1 “Whispering in Secret Rooms” (pp. 428-429), The Runestaff (1969)

“A whole tangle of series, possibly including everything Moorcock's written, not excluding his grocery lists, but I'm not sure; certainly includes most of his fantasy. Various subseries are declared complete every so often, as for example in an ad for the Last Elric Book in the current issue of F& SF; such declarations sometimes prove true, but on the other hand, I've seen several previous Last Elric Books.”

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Joe Bernstein, [d9rkbu$2t2$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005], describing the Eternal Champion series.
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““You only need fear the bees if you’ve broken the law.” That familiar phrase was used to justify every encroachment on citizens’ liberty.”

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Źródło: Short fiction, The Lost Canal (2013), p. 346

“I could scarcely believe that these were the men who had done so much to influence the course of my own world’s history. It now seemed obvious that all of them were drugged in some way. They were acting like silly children. And yet I suppose I should have realized that it is in the nature of all such creatures to be at heart infantile. Only children believe they can achieve enormous power over the world without paying a price for that power. And the price so often is the sanity of the one who seeks it.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 2 (p. 641)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.”

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Źródło: Short fiction, To Rescue Tanelorn... (1962), p. 474

“The conqueror always assumes that his moral superiority—rather than his ferocious greed—is what has allowed him to triumph.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 5 “The Coming of the Air Fleets” (p. 121)
The Warlord of the Air (1971)

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