Happy Birthday, Michael Moorcock
Jeff VanderMeer • December 18th, 2008 @ 10:16 am • Uncategorized
As John Picacio says, Happy Birthday to a living legend. And one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He was instrumental to my career in agreeing to write an introduction to City of Saints & Madmen, and he’s introduced me to so many amazingly creative people, leading to tangible results in the form of books and other projects. Just one example–Mike put me in touch with John Coulthart, a designer who has been incredibly important to projects like the fake disease guide, the upcoming Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, and many more. Anyway, I hope Moorcock has a great birthday, and I hope people appreciate both his talent and his benevolence (I still see him as a kind of god at times, I have to say).
December 18, 2008 at 10:24 am
Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals?
December 18, 2008 at 10:35 am
Keep up, Rajan! It’s out in October 2009, with a subtitle of The Evil Monkey Dialogues. :) From Tachyon.
Jeff
December 18, 2008 at 11:05 am
I’m about to start the fourth volume of the Del Rey reprints of his Elric stories and my opinion of him as a writer is steadily improving. But I still think my favorite memory of him is how courteously he treated a fellow mod of mine at wotmania a few years ago. She was 15 at the time and she kept talking about how about friendly he was (it was one of her first few interviews; I believe she also interviewed you as well, Jeff). Made a positive impression on me, as I hadn’t yet read any of his works. I’m busy correcting that.
December 18, 2008 at 11:16 am
He truly is the nicest guy I’ve ever met. A real inspiration.
December 18, 2008 at 11:26 am
I still think the most unintentionally hilarious thing I’ve read online over the past year or so was someone on an internet forum (I believe it was Westeros) that wanted to argue that Moorcock was arrogant because of his comments in “Epic Pooh.”
December 18, 2008 at 12:50 pm
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