The Best of Michael Moorcock

From the legendary author of the Elric sagas, this definitive collection captures the incomparable short fiction of one of science fiction and literature's most important contemporary writers. These exceptional stories range effortlessly from the genre tales that continue to define heroic fantasy to the author's critically acclaimed mainstream works. Classic offerings include "The Visible Men", the trilogy "My Experiences in the Third World War", "A Portrait in Ivory" and the Nebula award-winning novella "Behold the Man". With all of his finest stories finally collected in one volume, this is a long-overdue tribute to an extraordinarily gifted, versatile, and much-beloved author.

Michael Moorcock is the author of numerous novels, including the Elric series, Cornelius Quartet, Gloriana, and King of the City. He has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, and British Science Fiction awards and is a Grandmaster of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. As editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds, Moorcock was one of the progenitors of the controversial New Wave movement. His nonfiction works have appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, and New Statesman. He lives in Bastrop, Texas.