Pretty much everyone in the Mutiverse turns out to be related to Elric and the Von Bek dynasty.
Gaynor the Damned and Klosterheim attempt to destroy the Tree of Life and then join forces with the Empire of Granbretan (Evil Alternate Britain), kidnap Elric's son and great-grand-daughter and attempt to sacrifice them in a bizarre ritual involving various Grail relics but are saved by Elric, the Black version of Erekosë and Hawkmoon - and then Oswald Bastable arrives in a zeppelin and drops a nuclear bomb on Londra (Evil Alternate London). Elric's daughter hangs out with Hiawatha and a younger version of Elric rides around on a mammoth. Ulrich's cousin Gaynor joins the Nazi party and becomes Gaynor the Damned by betraying both Law and Chaos and holding a siege against Tanelorn. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his Second Ether fiction.Įlric's dream body joins with his albinoid 1930's Germany era counterpart Ulrich Von Bek and they hack their way out of a Nazi concentration camp with Stormbringer. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.ĭuring this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
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