Michael Moorcock is a vanguard author, editor, journalist, critic, and rock musician, who is editor of the controversial magazine New Worlds. Moorcock’s Elric the Eternal Champion saga has been optioned by Universal Pictures, with Chris and Paul Weitz American Pie producing. Campbell Award, and the British Fantasy Award. Gloriana won Moorcock the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Aspect reissued Moorcock’s classic Gloriana, or the Unfulfill’d Queen in trade paperback in 8/04. The Dreamthief’s Daughter Aspect hardcover, 2001, 8 5 mass market, 2002, 0 4 received praise from the Washington Post, Denver Post, and Locus, where it was featured on the 2001 Recommended Reading list. Aspect published the previous novel in the series, The Skrayling Tree, in hardcover 4 9 in 2003 and in mass market 0 1 in 7/04.
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