![]() ![]() Lancer 1960s, Gray Morrow/Jeff Jones/Jack Fargasso "The Genesis of Hawkmoon", MM on Tor.com, 2010 Something like ‘Hey, we’re not always the good guys’. Those days addressing an Anglophone audience, and wanted to say Some relation to my own and my contemporaries’ experience of the real Though in all important ways essentially escapism, always has to have Relate at least to a degree to the contemporary world. Of vague ‘time before time’ and, if you like, Europeanise it, make it I was determined to move my fantasy away from some kind Hero a German and his base as the Camargue in France was to try to cutĪcross some of the ethnocentric elements you found in what littleįantasy fiction there was at the time and was found in genre fiction in Satire, relating to politics of the 60s, but the main reason I made my In the Hawkmoon books you find some fairly thinly-disguised political Post-war, a typical fantasy narrative might envision a resurgent, utopian Britain, but Moorcock as usual gives things a more cynical spin and makes the hero of his saga a defeated German Duke, and Britain the inhuman oppressors. Prior to World War II, Great Britain actually was the most powerful nation on Earth. ![]() ![]() This sequence is fascinating because is posits a post-nuclear world where Great Britain has succumbed to its darkest, most imperialistic tendencies and placed a yoke on all of its rivals. ![]()
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