Michael Moorcock is considered among the most original and influential writers to have emerged from the New Wave of science fiction, an international movement of the 1960s that brought a wide range of subjects and experimental literary styles to the genre. A prolific author with twelve series and many individual works to his credit, Moorcock has written comic novels, satires, high fantasy in the sword and sorcery vein, historical allegory, and nonfiction as well as science fiction; he has also written short stories and screenplays and has edited several science fiction collections. As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds, Moorcock is credited with helping to create the New Wave movement and for providing a showcase for some of its most talented practitioners. As a writer, Moorcock is acknowledged by most observers as a gifted storyteller who is, in the words of Booklist reviewer Algis Budrys...