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1. Steven W. Beattie says:
   November 16th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

   Dude, if Sebastian Faulks can pen a James Bond novel, why shouldn’t Michael Moorcock try his hand at Dr. Who? It’s probably very lucrative for minimal effort.

2. August says:
   November 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

   I think you’ve got that analogy backward, George. Asking Moorcock to write a Doctor Who novel is like asking Gwar to perform Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Met.

3. Simon says:
   November 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

   August, have to agree with you.

   Never understood why Moorcock has such a high reputation.

   Then again, I’ve never understood why any Sci-fi writer besides Dick has a reputation.

4. VB says:
   November 17th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   Well, no-one can force you to care about any artist. You can only care if it captures your imagination.

   But I could tell you why I think Moorcock is interesting.

   He started writing in a sub-genre of a genre, sword & sorcery tales, which even Sci-fi nerds often despised, but he did some interesting writing in this media, adding some new existential aspects but without taking the easy path of devolving into mere parody.

   While doing this stuff, he edited revolutionary new-wave SF works by writers such as J.G. Ballard, and he published his own somewhat Burroughs-influenced experimental writing as well.

   He also jammed with Hawkwind: [see link above]

5. VB says:
   November 17th, 2009 at 8:19 pm

   Oh, and he was an associate of Mervyn Peake

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