Makhno soon turned against the Bolsheviks again and for a while he and Hrihorieff planned an alliance, but Hrihorieff’s egocentricity and pogromist activities (Reds, Greens and Whites were all responsible for uncountable atrocities against Ukrainian and Polish Jews) disgusted the Anarchist and, in a well-documented meeting at the village of Sentovo near Hrihorieff’s Alexandria camp, under the noses of Hrihorieff’s own followers, Makhno and his lieutenants assassinated the Ataman for ‘pogromist atrocities and anti-revolutionary activities’. But the insurgents never reclaimed their former glory. Bit by bit they were betrayed and conquered by the Reds, whose frequent tactic was to invite insurgent leaders to conferences and then (as Trotsky did with Makhno’s lieutenants) have them shot on the spot. In an atmosphere of chaos and mass-murder reminiscent of the worst days of the Thirty Years War, Petlyura and his men held out a little longer in Galicia but by early 1920 the Bolsheviks had gained most of the Ukraine and would soon turn the weight of Budyenny’s Red Cavalry upon the invading Poles and the remnants of the Whites. By this time, of course, Pyat had no personal interest in the matter.
Lobkowitz recommends Konstantin Paustovsky’s Story of a Life* as ‘excellent, if diplomatically edited’ background reading to this period of Ukrainian-Russian history. He also tells me that ‘at least one of Pyat’s claims is partially vindicated by Paustovsky: in Vol. III (Jn That Dawn), page 141, where he mentions a rumour circulating in Kiev that a “Violet Ray” was to be used by Petlyura to defend the city against the Bolsheviks.’ He goes on to suggest that it is ‘worth reading between the lines of Paustovsky’s account, which was, of course, published first in the Soviet Union and therefore tends to take an official view, on the surface at least, of Petlyura, Makhno and various other personalities of those years’. He also recommends, as an academic source, The Ukraine, 1917-1921: A Study in Revolution, edited by Taras Hunczak and published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1977 (distributed by Harvard University Press).
* Six volumes published by Collins/Harvill Press, 1964-1974
About the Author
Voted by the London Times one of the best fifty writers since 1945, Michael Moorcock was shortlisted with Salman Rushdie and Bruce Chatwin for the Whitbread Prize (Mother London) and won the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Condition of Muzak. He has won almost all major SF and Fantasy awards and several lifetime achievement awards including the ‘Howie’, the Prix Utopiales and the Stoker.
He received the BSFA award for his editorship of New Worlds magazine which blended genre and literary fiction, science and the arts. Best known in the USA for his rule-breaking SF and fantasy, including the classic Elric and Hawkmoon series, Behold the Man, The Warlord of the Air, Gloriana and The Dancers at the End of Time, he is also the author of several graphic novels including Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse and Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer. His political essay ‘The Retreat from Liberty’ predicted the manner of Margaret Thatcher’s downfall.
He has written movies including the cult classic The Final Programme and received a gold disc while with the British prog-rock band Hawkwind. Records with his own band The Deep Fix include The New Worlds Fair and The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (also a novel). He played on a variety of records including the Eno-produced Robert Calvert masterpiece Lucky Leifand the Longships. He wrote the novel accompanying the Sex Pistols movie The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle.
Moorcock’s ‘Colonel Pyat’ quartet has been described as an authentic masterpiece of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is currently working on a new album Live from the Terminal Café for the Spirits Burning label and a novel The Whispering Swarm, combining autobiography and fantasy.
His journalism appears in the Spectator, the Guardian, the Financial Times and the L.A. Times. His latest novel is an SF comedy featuring Dr Who, The Coming of the Terraphiles.
Born in London, Moorcock now divides his time between Paris, France, and Austin, Texas. He is married to Linda Steele and has three children by a previous marriage.
Bibliography
NOVELS
The Hungry Dreamers; lost manuscript—never published
Stormbringer (1965); restored and revised (1977)
The Sundered Worlds (1965) aka The Blood Red Game (1970); revised 1992
Warriors of Mars (1965) aka City of the Beast (1970); as Edward P. Bradbury
Blades of Mars (1965) aka Lord of the Spiders (1971); as Edward P. Bradbury
The Fireclown (1965) aka The Winds of Limbo (1969)
Barbarians of Mars (1965) aka Masters of the Pit (1971); as Edward P. Bradbury
The LSD Dossier (1966); as Roger Harris
Somewhere in the Night (1966); as Bill Barclay, revised as The Chinese Agent (1970)
The Twilight Man (1966) aka The Shores of Death (1970)
Printer’s Devil (1966); as Bill Barclay, revised as The Russian Intelligence (1980)
The Jewel in the Skull (1967); revised (1977)
The Wrecks of Time (1967) (US), censored; aka The Rituals of Infinity (1971) (UK), uncensored
The Final Programme (1968); censored in US; revised (1979)
The Mad God’s Amulet (1969) aka Sorcerer’s Amulet (1968) (US title); revised (1977)
The Ice Schooner (1969); revised (1977), (1985)
The Sword of the Dawn (1969) aka Sword of the Dawn (1968) (US title); revised (1977)
Behold the Man (1969)
The Runestaff (1969) aka The Secret of the Runestaff (1969) (US title); revised (1977)
The Black Corridor (1969); with Hilary Bailey (uncredited)
The Eternal Champion (1970); revised (1978)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970) aka The Silver Warriors (1973) (US title)
A Cure for Cancer (1971); revised (1979)
The Knight of the Swords (1971)
The Queen of the Swords (1971)
The Warlord of the Air (1971); censored in UK, restored in A Nomad of the Time Streams (1993)
The King of the Swords (1971)
The Sleeping Sorceress (1971) aka The Vanishing Tower (1977)
Breakfast in the Ruins (1972)
Elric of Melniboné (1972) aka The Dreaming City (1972) (US title); with unauthorized edits
The English Assassin (1972); revised (1979)
An Alien Heat (1972)
Count Brass (1973)
The Bull and the Spear (1973)
The Champion of Garathorm (1973)
The Oak and the Ram (1973)
The Sword and the Stallion (1974)
The Land Leviathan (1974)
The Hollow Lands (1974)
The Quest for Tanelorn (1975)
The Distant Suns (1975); with James Cawthorn (Cawthorn as Philip James)
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
The End of All Songs (1976)
The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (1976)
The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming (1977) aka A Messiah at the End of Time (1978) (US title); revised as Constant Fire (1993)
The Condition of Muzak (1977); revised (unacknowledged) (1978)
Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill’d Queen (1978); revised (1993)
The Golden Barge (1979); written 1958
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980)
Byzantium Endures (1981); censored in US
The Entropy Tango (1981)
The War Hound and the World’s Pain (1981)
The Steel Tsar (1981); substantially revised in A Nomad of the Time Streams (1993)
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982)
The Laughter of Carthage (1984)
The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
Mother London (1988)
The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
Jerusalem Commands (1992)
Blood (1995)
The War Amongst the Angels (1996)
King of the City (2000)
Silverheart
(2000); with Storm Constantine
The Dreamthief’s Daughter (2001)
The Skrayling Tree (2003)
The White Wolf’s Son (2005)
The Vengeance of Rome (2006)
Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles (2010)
Elric: Les Buveurs d’mes (published in French, 2011); with Fabrice Colin
The Whispering Swarm (forthcoming)
COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES
The Stealer of Souls (1963)
The Deep Fix (1966); as James Colvin
The Time Dweller (1969)
The Singing Citadel (1970)
The Nature of the Catastrophe (1971); anthology, stories by Moorcock & others
Legends from the End of Time (1976)
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976); revised (1987), (2003)
Moorcock’s Book of Martyrs (1976) aka Dying for Tomorrow (1978) (US title)
The Weird of the White Wolf (1977); formerly The Singing Citadel / The Stealer of Souls
The Bane of the Black Sword (1977); formerly The Stealer of Souls / The Singing Citadel
Sojan (1977); revised as Sojan the Swordsman (2010)
My Experiences in the Third World War (1980)
Elric at the End of Time (1984)
The Opium General and Other Stories (1984)
Casablanca (1989)
The New Nature of the Catastrophe (1993); anthology, stories by Moorcock & others (revised from 1971)
Earl Aubec and Other Stories (1993)
Lunching with the Antichrist (1995)
Fabulous Harbours (1995) aka Fabulous Harbors (1997) (US title)
Tales from the Texas Woods (1997)
London Bone (2001)
The Metatemporal Detective (2007)
Elric: The Stealer of Souls (2008)
Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn (2008)
Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress (2008)
Elric: Duke Elric (2009)
The Best of Michael Moorcock (2009)
Elric: In the Dream Realms (2009)
Elric: Swords and Roses (2010)
Modem Times 2.0 (2011)
DIGESTS, PAMPHLETS, AND NOVELLAS
Caribbean Crisis (1962); digest, as Desmond Reid with James Cawthorn (text re-written by publisher)
The Jade Man’s Eyes (1973); novella, revised in The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
Epic Pooh (1978); pamphlet, nonfiction, reprinted in Wizardry and Wild Romance (1987)
The Real Life Mr Newman (1979); pamphlet, originally published in The Deep Fix (1966)
The Retreat from Liberty (1983); pamphlet, nonfiction
Elric at the End of Time (1987); illustrated novella, with Rodney Matthews
The Birds of the Moon (1995); pamphlet, reprinted in Fabulous Harbours (1995)
Behold the Man: The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition (1996); novella, originally published in New Worlds #166 (1966)
Firing the Cathedral (2002); novella, reprinted in The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (2003)
The Mystery of the Texas Twister (2003); novella, published with Argosy #1, reprinted in The Metatemporal Detective (2007)
NONFICTION BOOKS
Letters from Hollywood (1986)
Wizardry and Wild Romance (1987); revised (2004)
Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1988); with James Cawthorn
Death Is No Obstacle (1992); with Colin Greenland
Into the Media Web: Selected Short Nonfiction, 1956-2006 (2010)
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction (2012)
GRAPHIC STORIES AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius: The English Assassin (1969–70); with M John Harrison, Mal Dean and Richard Glyn Jones, in International Times #57–71
‘A Sword Called Stormbringer’ (1972); with James Cawthorn, Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith, in Conan the Barbarian #14
‘The Green Empress of Melniboné’(1972); with James Cawthorn, Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith, in Conan the Barbarian #15
Elric: The Return to Melniboné (1973); with Philippe Druillet
The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell (1979); with Howard Chaykin
Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse (1999); with Walter Simonson, Mark Reeve and John Ridgway
‘Blitz Kid’ (2002); with Walter Simonson, in 9–11: The World’s Finest Comic Book Writers and Artists Tell Stories To Remember, Volume 2
‘The Black Blade of the Barbary Coast’ (2005) with Jerry Ordway, in Tom Strong #31–32
Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer (2007); with Walter Simonson
The Sunday Books (2011); words by Moorcock, pictures by Mervyn Peake (published in French, 2010)
SELECTED OMNIBUSES
The Swords Trilogy (1977) (US title) aka The Swords of Corum (1986) (UK title) aka Corum (1992) (UK title) aka Corum: The Coming ofChaos (1997) (US title) aka Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe (2002) (UK title)
The Cornelius Chronicles (1977) (US omnibus) as two volumes in the UK: The Cornelius Chronicles Book One & The Cornelius Chronicles Book Two (1988) aka The Cornelius Quartet (1993)
The Chronicles of Corum (1978) aka The Prince with the Silver Hand (1993) aka Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand (1999) (US title)
The History of the Runestaff (1979) (UK omnibus) aka Hawkmoon; revised (1992)
Warrior of Mars (1981) (UK title) aka Kane of Old Mars (1998) (US title)
The Dancers at the End of Time (1981)
The Nomad of Time (1982) aka A Nomad of the Time Streams; revised (1993)
The Elric Saga Part One (1984) (US omnibus)
The Elric Saga Part Two (1984) (US omnibus)
The Chronicles of Castle Brass (1985) (UK omnibus) aka Count Brass; revised (1993)
The Cornelius Chronicles, Vol. II (1986) (US omnibus)
The Cornelius Chronicles, Vol. III (1987) (US omnibus)
Tales from the End of Time (1989) (US omnibus)
Von Bek (1992)
The Eternal Champion (1992)
Sailing to Utopia (1993)
Elric of Melniboné (1993) (UK title) aka Elric: Song of the Black Sword (1995) (US title)
Legends from the End of Time (1993); with unauthorized edits, restored (1997)
Stormbringer (1993) (UK title) aka Elric: The Stealer of Souls (1998) (US title)
A Cornelius Calendar (1993) (UK omnibus)
Behold the Man and Other Stories (1994) (UK omnibus)
The Roads Between the Worlds (1996) (US omnibus)
Elric (2001)
The Elric Saga Part Three (2002) (US omnibus)
Jerry Cornell’s Comic Capers (2005)
The Elric Saga Part IV (2005) (US omnibus)
EDITED ANTHOLOGIES
The Best of New Worlds (1965)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds (1967)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 2 (1968)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 3 (1968)
The Traps of Time (1968)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4 (1969)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 5 (1969)
The Inner Landscape (1969) (uncredited)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 (1970)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 7 (1971)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 8 (1974)
Before Armageddon (1975)
England Invaded (1977)
New Worlds: An Anthology (1983); revised (2004)
MUSIC
With the Deep Fix:
The New Worlds Fair (1975)
Dodgem Dude (1980)
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982)
Roller Coaster Holiday (2004)
The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions (2008)
et al.
With Hawkwind:
Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975)
Sonic Attack (1981)
Zones (1983)
Out & Intake (1987)
Live Chronicles (1994)
Yule Ritual (2001)
et al.
Also work with B
lue Oyster Cult, Robert Calvert, et al.
ABOUT PM PRESS
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