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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.
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MICHAEL MOORCOCK, widely acknowledged as one of the premiere masters of SF and fantasy and selected by The Times of London as one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, is the author of dozens of works of SF, fantasy, and mainstream fiction. He has received the World Fantasy Award for life achievement and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master in 2008. He lives in Texas.
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“An absorbing look at the history of a genre legend. Fantasy fans will enjoy the book on its well-polished merits, but those interested in the history of the fantasy genre will get the most out of it.” ―Publishers Weekly
“There's a complex and beautiful book in here, with an unusually adult perspective on fantasy as nostalgia for what never was and cannot be again.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Moorcock interweaves his two strands into a cat's cradle of wonder, with each narrative illuminating and heightening its counterpart.... The result is an organic work that shows the whole man, and his dreams.” ―Paul Di Filippo, Locus Magazine
“This first book in The Sanctuary of the White Friars provides a fascinating Moorcock-esque romp.” ―SF Signal
“There is absolutely no doubt that The Whispering Swarm is technically brilliant. The complex interplay of autobiography, real-life history, invented mythology, and pulp adventure is, really, quite stunning to behold. Never before have I seen so many genres and themes at play within the same text, all of them having a significant role within the overall story.” ―Beauty In Ruins
“Michael Moorcock has managed to blur reality, biography (well, autobiography) and fantasy extremely well (gaining a convert, I might add, in me) and in a way I can't remember reading before....I recommend this book quite highly.” ―Steve Fahnestalk, Amazing Stories Magazine
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