Naw, he's a good guy. Have patience, we'll get it sooner or later.
I know, I was just kidding. I wouldn't really expect anyone to breach a confidence.
Is Michael Moorcock still doing his Doctor Who novel?
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I know, I was just kidding. I wouldn't really expect anyone to breach a confidence.
From the description, it does sound like the Doctor Whoverse is crossing paths with Moorcock's EternalChampionmultiverse.
Definitely looking forward to that novel.
Or you could just keep your eye on the thread he's got going at Moorcock's Miscellany: http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showpost.php?p=197437&postcount=188
Moorcock's Miscellany has the cover: http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=14237
Looks decent, if not spectacular. They're obviously going for a different market than your typical Who novel these days.
Looks decent, if not spectacular. They're obviously going for a different market than your typical Who novel these days.
This is probably going to sound like total depravity or even vile heresy, but Michael Moorcock isn't that good a writer.
Lots of his stuff is ephemeral junk. Frankly, Elric and the Eternal Champion are to my eyes classic examples of crap that makes me like science fiction much better.
Jerry Cornelius had something but his greed for selling franchise work led him into undoing it. Even stuff like Gloriana, which actually has ambitions, suffers from being underthought but still lifeless.
I don't know of anything Moorcock's written that is truly topnotch since Behold the Man. (Unless memory serves me wrong, which is a distinct possiblity, the novella was better than the novel. Selling more words has been the man's ruination as a writer.)
His work as an editor seems to be quite sound, but he's not even a very good critic. His blast against Tolkien shows a very poor grasp of what Lord of the Rings is about.
Lots of his stuff is ephemeral junk. Frankly, Elric and the Eternal Champion are to my eyes classic examples of crap that makes me like science fiction much better.
Jerry Cornelius had something but his greed for selling franchise work led him into undoing it. Even stuff like Gloriana, which actually has ambitions, suffers from being underthought but still lifeless.
I don't know of anything Moorcock's written that is truly topnotch since Behold the Man. (Unless memory serves me wrong, which is a distinct possiblity, the novella was better than the novel. Selling more words has been the man's ruination as a writer.)
His work as an editor seems to be quite sound, but he's not even a very good critic. His blast against Tolkien shows a very poor grasp of what Lord of the Rings is about.
It's gonna be a properly-sized hardcover, and it'll be longer, too.
I hope that my library will get this in.
I'm actually not that impressed with the cover. It's kind of generic. But then, don't judge a book by its cover.
And today, I got an ARC of The Coming of the Terraphiles. 
It's a trade paperback, and it does not have Michael Collins' illustrations, because it's an ARC.
And I'm going to read it this weekend, because I need a serious Doctor Who fix.
So, yes, 23skidoo, there's going to be a real book (a hardcover, unlike my ARC trade paperback), and it's going to be in stores, and it's not vaporware at all.
It's a trade paperback, and it does not have Michael Collins' illustrations, because it's an ARC.
And I'm going to read it this weekend, because I need a serious Doctor Who fix.
So, yes, 23skidoo, there's going to be a real book (a hardcover, unlike my ARC trade paperback), and it's going to be in stores, and it's not vaporware at all.
It's not an NSA. It's not being marketed as an NSA. It's not being written for the NSA audience. It's not being published as an NSA. So of course it's going to look different than an NSA.
Michael Moorcock?!
Allyn, just how well does Moorcock manage to integrate the DW universe into his Multiverse? Are there any referenes to other novel series and characters he's written? Any references to past Doctor adventures?
There was a time when I wondered if the White Guardian and the Black Guardian could be the Whoniverse's representatives of Law and Chaos, possibly analogues of Arkyn and Arioch.
This actually won't be the first time Moorcock has crossed over his creations with other literary characters. In the 1970s he came up with a story for Marvel's Conan the Barbarian comic, wherein Conan crossed paths with Elric, Queen Xiombarg, and Prince Gaynor the Damned. I love that story. And the late Karl Edward Wagner wrote the short story "The Gothic Touch" for an Elric-themed anthology where Elric and Moonglum met his own fantasy/sci-fi/horror character Kane. Anyone ever read these stories?
There was a time when I wondered if the White Guardian and the Black Guardian could be the Whoniverse's representatives of Law and Chaos, possibly analogues of Arkyn and Arioch.
This actually won't be the first time Moorcock has crossed over his creations with other literary characters. In the 1970s he came up with a story for Marvel's Conan the Barbarian comic, wherein Conan crossed paths with Elric, Queen Xiombarg, and Prince Gaynor the Damned. I love that story. And the late Karl Edward Wagner wrote the short story "The Gothic Touch" for an Elric-themed anthology where Elric and Moonglum met his own fantasy/sci-fi/horror character Kane. Anyone ever read these stories?
What's so amusing about that?Michael Moorcock?!
