The Whispering Swarm

Resumen del libro

With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book), Michael Moorcock - the most influential figure in modern fantasy and science fiction - returns to the city of his birth. London has always been a central character in Moorcock's work, from the high-literary fiction of MOTHER LONDON to the roof gardens of Jerry Cornelius. Now return to London just after the war, a city desperately trying to get back on its feet.

And one young boy, Michael Moorcock, who is about to discover a world of magic and wonder. Between his first tentative approaches to adulthood - a job on Fleet Street, the first stirrings of his interest in writing - and a chance encounter with a mysterious Carmelite Friar, we see a version of Moorcock's life that is simultaneously a biography and a story. Mixing elements of his real life with his adventures in a parallel London peopled with highwaywomen, musketeers and magicians, this is Moorcock at his dazzling, mercurial best.

Biografía del autor

MICHAEL MOORCOCK (Londres, 1939) es un prolífico escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía británico-estadounidense. También es editor, periodista, crítico, compositor y músico de grupos de rock como Hawkwind. Moorcock es particularmente conocido por sus novelas sobre el personaje de Elric de Melniboné, que fueron una influencia seminal en el campo de la fantasía en las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Como editor de la revista New Worlds impulsó la nueva ola de la ciencia ficción en el Reino Unido e indirectamente en los Estados Unidos, contribuyendo al desarrollo del ciberpunk.