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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

“As I suggested to John Major (a British Prime Minister) when he told us that socialism was dead, he should not be too triumphant. After all, until his predecessor Mrs Thatcher revived it, we thought feudalism pretty much over and done with, too.”

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Michael Moorcock

Introduction (p. vi)
The Warlord of the Air (1971)

“Paternalism and centralism, the bane of capitalist as well as socialist politics, are for me the permanent enemy of democracy.”

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Michael Moorcock

Introduction (p. vi)
The Warlord of the Air (1971)

“The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Eternal Champion

Źródło: The Eternal Champion (1970), Chapter 23 “In Loos Ptokai” (p. 137)

“It is the spirit of Salem—the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal—infecting what remains of a nation which could have set an example to the world.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Land Leviathan

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

“They’re Mabden, of course. They are afraid of the city. Afraid of almost everything. And being permitted no weapons with which they can attack what they fear, they are reduced to what you see. It seems the Mabden can only kill or run away. Their brains are of no use to them.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 6 (p. 581)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“This vast pile of natural beauty, those crags and fir trees and hovering hawks, those echoing ravines and vast tumblings of snow and earth, brought me swiftly to the understanding of my own insignificance and, indeed, the insignificance of all human struggle.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 2 (pp. 194-195)

““Are you trying to talk peace terms?”
“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.””

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 5 “A Question of Attitudes” (p. 368)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“I at least had some knowledge of the warping, mutating power of the Lords of Disorder, the supernatural entities who on John Daker’s Earth would be called Arch-Demons, the Dukes of Hell. I knew that they made use of our most treasured virtues and most honoured emotions. That they were capable of almost any illusion. And that all that was keeping them from pouring forth from their stronghold to engulf so many other Realms of the multiverse was their caution, their unreadiness or unwillingness to war against the rival power of Law. But if we humans invited them to our realms, they would come.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 9 (p. 613)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 446)

“What good is a martyr, Captain Bastable? A martyr shows us the power of faith. But what if that faith is misinformed? While people believe in heroes and the magic power of an individual to save them from the human condition, they will never be free.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 422)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“You’re as worthless as one of that decrepit mob. Lucifer has rejected you. Now mankind rejects you. Have the good taste, Sir, to accept a fact!”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 408)

“Indeed, to be a hero, forever at war, is to be in some ways always a child. The true challenge comes in making sense of one’s life, of imbuing it with purpose based on one’s own principles.”

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Michael Moorcock

Epilogue (p. 687)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“We are all guilty,” he said. “We are all innocent. Only when we accept responsibility for our own actions do we become free. And only when every one of us accepts their share of responsibility will the world become safe for us all.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 422)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)

“I realized I was fulfilling mankind’s greatest dream—to fly like a bird, as naturally and as joyously as if the air were our familiar habitat.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 419)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Socialists are always quarreling amongst themselves, because of the strong element of messianism in their creeds.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 2 “Back in Service” (p. 353)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.”

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Michael Moorcock książka Phoenix in Obsidian

Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Chapter 5 “The Waking of the Sword” (p. 421)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

“Man is a rationalizing beast, if not a rational 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 14 (p. 142)

“I watched him while he moved about in the nearby spinney below, bending and straightening, shaking snow from the sticks he found, and for some reason was reminded of the parable of Abraham and his son. Why should one serve a God who demanded such insane loyalty, who demanded that one deny the very humanity He was said to have created?”

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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. 92)

“But now the Mob’s passing whim had become the only law, as Robespierre himself would soon discover. I felt cruelly betrayed: by the Revolution, by men I had embraced as brothers, by Circumstance, and, as always, by God.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 177)

““For years my lady made her plans. And when the time came to put them into action, how wonderfully she was able to achieve her ambitions.”
“Only because few rational people can ever begin to understand such a lust for power,” said von Bek feelingly. “There is nothing more puerile than the mind of a tyrant.””

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 1 (p. 629)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“I felt sorry for him at that moment. He only wanted what every man wanted—freedom from fear, a chance to raise children with a reasonable certainty that they would be allowed to do the same, a chance to look forward to the future without the knowledge that any plans made might be wrecked forever by some sudden act of violence.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Eternal Champion

Źródło: The Eternal Champion (1970), Chapter 3 “The Eldren Threat” (p. 15)

“It’s what they call a “theocracy”—priest-ridden in the extreme, full of dark superstitions and darker myths and legends, where all gods and demons are honoured, doubtless to be on the safe side. The people are cruel, ignorant, dirty and proud—they look down their noses at all other races.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 2 “The Temple at Teku Benga” (p. 14)
The Warlord of the Air (1971)

“Violence creates nothing but violence, no matter what we call it and what the excuse. And so it goes, down all the centuries.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 423)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“The marvelous is of necessity a lie, a distortion. At best it is a metaphor which leads to the truth. I think that I know what causes the World’s Pain, lady. Or at least I think I know what contributes to that Pain.”
“And what would that be, Ulrich von Bek?”
“By telling a single lie to oneself or to another, by denying a single fact of the world as it has been created, one adds to the World’s Pain. And pain, lady, creates pain. And one must not seek to become saint or sinner, God or Devil. One must seek to become human and to love the fact of one’s humanity.”
I became embarrassed. “That is all I have learned, lady.”

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“It is all that Heaven demands,” she said.
Źródło: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 16 (p. 158)

“It’s in the nature of a good despot to say anything that will convince someone to do as he wishes. Only when he does not need them does he really say what he thinks. And by that time, of course, because he has no need of them, they are usually as good as dead. The secret of becoming a successful tyrant lies in an early ability to be all things to all people.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (p. 397)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Destiny’s Champion,
Fate’s fool.
Eternity’s Soldier,
Time’s Tool.”

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Michael Moorcock książka Phoenix in Obsidian

Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Epigram (p. 394)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

“I guessed he experienced the terrible confusion of a true solipsist when the outer world impinges.”

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Michael Moorcock książka The City in the Autumn Stars

Źródło: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 357)

“Violent men believe only in such concepts as ‘weakness’ and ‘cowardice’. They are so deeply cynical, so rooted in their own insane beliefs, that they cannot even begin to grasp the concept of ‘pacifism’.”

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Michael Moorcock

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

“I pray, in short, that God exists, that Lucifer brings about His own Redemption and that mankind therefore shall in time be free of them both forever: for until Man makes his own justice according to his own experience, he will never know what true peace can be.”

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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. 168)

“That evening I lit many candles and sat in the library wearing fresh linen and drinking good wine while I read a treatise on astronomy by a student of Kepler’s and reflected on my increasing disagreement with Luther, who had judged reason to be the chief enemy of Faith, of the purity of his beliefs. He had considered reason a harlot, willing to turn to anyone’s needs, but this merely displayed his own suspicion of logic. I have come to believe him the madman Catholics described him as. Most mad people see logic as a threat to the dream in which they would rather live, a threat to their attempts to make the dream reality (usually through force, through threat, through manipulation and through bloodshed). It is why men of reason are so often the first to be killed or exiled by tyrants.”

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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 1 (pp. 11-12)

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