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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I remember liking Stormbringer a lot (spoiler alert: the one where the sword kills ########), when I was young. I tried reading the other Elric books and found them a bit meh. I felt Moorcock was just knocking stuff out of no great quality.
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Yes, he was a bit up and down with quality .... maybe due to radicalism and substances etc .... maybe even boredom and obligations.
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But Moorcock is an interesting character. ...... He was truly at the heart of what for us now seem like a mythic time in science fiction.
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Certainly he is an interesting product of that earlier era, like so many others back them ... though I guess he stood out more than most of them, certainly in Britain. There wasn't much Science in his work, mostly just Fantasy, but I guess everything fantastical back then, was placed under the mantle of Science Fiction or Fairy Tales .... still the case in some sectors.
Maybe it's just me (and a bunch of others ha ha ha), but the music and fiction back in the 60s/70s in particular, was wildly inventive. Much of it ended up being dross, but some of it was brilliant and unique ... out-of-this-world perhaps. The freedom or sense of freedom of the times I guess ... and drugs maybe.