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A hundred years from now? I'll bet if you took a survey even today, vastly more people would recognize Tolkien and Lewis than Moorcock. That was probably true
by Turing_Machine 2y ago
A hundred years from now?
I'll bet if you took a survey even today, vastly more people would recognize Tolkien and Lewis than Moorcock.
That was probably true even before the LOTR and CON movies. Tolkien and Lewis sold a helluva lot of books.
I think the Ballantine Tolkien paperbacks I had when I was a kid were something like the 40th edition, and that was (cough) a long time ago.
- skissane 2y agoWell, I myself had heard of Moorcock before this. I’ve never read any of his fiction, whereas I’ve read some of Tolkien’s (and they made us read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at school, but I never finished it.) But, for Moorcock, I read his interview with Andrea Dworkin, [0] and also a speech he gave at a conference commemorating her. [1] In fact, when I hear his name, Andrea Dworkin is the first thing to pop into my head. [2] I doubt I’m very representative of the general population, however. [0] http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MoorcockInterview.html http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MoorcockInterview.ht... [1] http://www.clarechambers.com/andrea-dworkin-commemorative-conference/ http://www.clarechambers.com/andrea-dworkin-commemorative-co... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-43-michael-moorcock-and-andrea-dworkin-1534106.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-...