Fantastic Metropolis

Editors’ note: Michael Moorcock has taken a leave of absence from Fantastic Metropolis to focus on his health and his work, and so we didn’t want to add to his troubles by requesting a list from him. In spite of that, he was very kind to contribute with a couple of short paragraphs, reproduced below.

Best imaginative books for 2002, including reprints, include A Voyage to Arcturus (Savoy edition) by David Lindsay, The Broken Sword (Fantasy Masterworks) by Poul Anderson, White Apples by Jonathan Carroll, Light by M. John Harrison, Steve Aylett’s Accomplice series (Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland, Karloff’s Circus). Stewart Home’s 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess is, I think, his best yet. Non-fiction has to be London Orbital by Iain Sinclair (which touches on J.G. Ballard and why mental hospitals are equidistant from London’s centre; read an excerpt).

Mostly I’ve read old chick-fic, including the excellent Farewell, Leicester Square by Betty Miller, about anti-Semitism in UK in the 1930s. Also re-read the stunningly good Henry Green, including Caught, unsentimental novel against background of firefighting in WW2.

Haven’t seen an imaginative movie I could recommend.