Name: An Interview with Michael Moorcock by Appendix N Book Club
Duration: 1 h 12 min 34 s
Description: Hoi and Jeff have the supreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Moorcock, author of the Elric and Hawkmoon stories among many others, and the youngest and only living author from the Appendix N list, who is also celebrating his 80th birthday in Dec 2019!

Hi, great interview with a living legend, thanks! Also love the idea of the Appendix N book club, I'll be looking into it. Sadly, my favourite S&S author, Karl Edward Wagner, was too late to appear. It was noted on his FB fan page recently that Michael Moorcock was a sigificant influence, and his character Kane shares some of the dark and anarchic characteristics of Elric. Elric even makes an appearance in a Kane story (The Gothic Touch) ! One of Michael's Echoes you mention in the interview perhaps ?

Thank you, really enjoyed this and will examine Appendix N more

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Hoi and Jeff have the supreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Moorcock, author of the Elric and Hawkmoon stories among many others, and the youngest and only living author from the Appendix N list, who is also celebrating his 80th birthday in Dec 2019!

An Interview with Michael Moorcock

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