World Fantasy Award Winning Authors

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Michael Moorcock, James Tiptree, Jr., Richard Matheson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Diana Wynne Jones, Tim Powers, Dan Simmons, Robert R. McCammon, James Blaylock, Ramsey Campbell, Geoff Ryman, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Jonathan Lethem, Susanna Clarke, John M. Ford, Ken Grimwood, T. E. D. Klein, Robert Holdstock, Christopher Priest, Robert Aickman, James Morrow, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, John Crowley, Gwyneth Jones, Avram Davidson, Jeff VanderMeer, Jonathan Carroll, Lucius Shepard, Barry Hughart, Steven Millhauser, Michael Shea, Patrick S skind, Fred Chappell, Ellen Kushner, Zoran ivkovi, Lewis Shiner, Ian R. MacLeod, Bradley Denton, Sean Stewart, Pat Murphy, David Schow, Jack Cady, Garry Kilworth, Brian McNaughton, Laurel Winter, Scott Baker. Excerpt: Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edwin Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of 16, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. 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. 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. During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spo...