Michael Moorcock on LSD, Immigration, and Writing
“People used to be convinced I’d written my fantasy novels on acid, but I had to disappoint them,” 69-year-old science fiction writer Michael Moorcock says in a new interview. “Strong sweet coffee and adrenaline was the secret and that probably gave me the neuropathy I enjoy today! So I wouldn’t recommend that, either…”
“I don’t have any regular practices or habits and, even if I had, I’d have to take the Fifth, I fear…. I signed a vast document when applying for my visa that I had never even been so much as near a vital herb.”
And what advice does he have for aspiring science fiction writers? “When people ask me what they should read in order to write fantasy or SF, I always answer stop reading it — read anything else.. That way you learn more and bring more to the fiction you’re writing.”
Moorcock is also collaborating with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair in a musical event GO TO FULL STORY
