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First Sale: The Dreaming City

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  • GuyLawley
    GuyLawley
    Champion of the Balance
    • Aug 2004
    • 1479
    #1

    First Sale: The Dreaming City

    I think this is new here; an essay from a magazine called Unearth no.8, 1979; Mike writes an introduction to The Dreaming City in the mag's series "First Sales", about his early career, how he first sold a fantasy story etc:

    [link expired]

    The secret of Mike's success? "I'm just a whore with a heart of gold..."
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  • David Mosley
    David Mosley
    Eternal Administrator
    • Jul 2004
    • 11823
    #2
    Originally posted by Michael Moorcock
    I first began to earn my living as a journalist when I was sixteen, I went straight from fanzines (Book Collectors News, Burroughsania, The Rambler) to juvenile magazines and thence to adult magazines in easy stages.
    Have we come across The Rambler before? It's not (I think) a title I recognise from any of Mike's previous fanzines. :?

    That's a great article, btw Guy. Thanks for uploading it. :clap:
    _"For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless.
    _For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him.
    _And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished.
    _He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."

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      #3
      Rambler has been mentioned here, as in this thread, for example:

      http://www.multiverse.org/posts259

      Nice contribution Guy, I've not seen that before. Thanks

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      • Marca
        Marca
        Eternal Champion
        • Aug 2004
        • 2014
        #4
        Got logged out, that was me above.

        That link didn't work either, try again:

        [link expired]

        :roll:
        'You know, I can't keep up with you. If I hadn't met you in person, I quite honestly would NOT believe you really existed. I just COULDN'T. You do so MUCH... if half of what goes into your zines is to be believed, you've read more at the age of 17 than I have at the age of 32 - LOTS more'

        Archie Mercer to Mike (Burroughsania letters page, 1957)

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