Michael Moorcock stands, as an opposite pole, with J.R.R. Tolkien as one of the two most influential writers of fantasy of the last half of the twentieth century. He dominated British fantasy during the 1960’s and 70’s, and continues to be regarded as the most influential writer of sword and sorcery in the UK. He was a central figure in the development of urban fantasy, as well as such tertiary genres as steampunk and gaslight romance. Yet Moorcock’s accomplishments as a writer defy such easy or convenient labels, as has his life. A prolific writer whose work has spanned or blurred most genres, including crime, romance, western, science fiction and mainstream, he is the author of an at times bewildering array of fiction which to date include over eighty novels, not considering varying titles or omnibuses; approximately one hundred and fifty short stories; a play and screenplay; poetry; several graphic novels; comics; and at least one computer game. He was editor of New Worlds, which under his stewardship became the preeminent magazine of science fiction for its day (1964-67), promoting new authors at the time that have since, along with Moorcock himself, come to be identified with the New Wave, including Brian Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delaney, Thomas M. Disch, M. John Harrison, Charles Platt, John Sladek, Norman Spinrad, Gene Wolfe and Roger Zelazny. In addition to his fiction and other editorial activities, Moorcock has written innumerable articles, essays, interviews, letters and reviews throughout his long career, as well as several works of non-fiction, including such critical surveys as Letters From Hollywood and Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy. He has also been actively involved in politics, serving as editor and writer for the Liberal Party from 1962-63, and has long been involved as an advocate of feminism and opponent of pornography. In addition to his writing career, he was a musician and songwriter for several rock bands, including Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Fix, The Greenhorns and Hawkwind.
Michael John Moorcock was born December 18, 1939, in Mitcham, Surrey, to Arthur and June (Taylor) Moorcock. He has been married three times, to author Hilary Bailey in 1962, Jill Riches in 1978, and his current wife, Linda Steele, in 1983. He is the father of three children, two daughters and a son, by his first marriage. After living most of his life in London, where much of his fiction is set, Moorcock moved with his wife, Linda, to Bastrop, Texas in 1994, which has been their primary residence ever since.
Moorcock began his writing career in early adolescence, his first work, Outlaw’s Own, written in 1950. At sixteen, he was briefly editor of Tarzan’s Adventures (1956-57), followed by the Sexton Blake Library (1958-61), and his early fiction, such as the Sojan stories, were heavily influenced by pulp fiction from the earlier half of the twentieth century. His first Elric tales appeared in 1961 and ’62, as well as the first direct mention of the Eternal Champion (1962), concepts and characters that, along with the multiverse—a realm of parallel if not infinite existences where a constant struggle exists between Order and Chaos—were to define most of his fiction during the ‘60’s and 70’s, and continue to inform his fantasy work to the present day. It is the character of Elric that first gained Moorcock an large audience, an often dark parody of Robert E. Howard’s Conan that solidified Moorcock’s identification with sword and sorcery, and that has continued, despite Elric’s many and evolving avatars—Corum, Erekosë, Hawkmoon, Kane of Mars, Von Bek or the commedia dell’ arte masquerade of Elric itself, Jerry Cornelius—or Moorcock’s increasing forays into other areas of fiction, and has influenced, in varying degrees, every author of fantasy that has followed. As John Clute observes in his Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Moorcock “remains the 20th century’s central fantasist about fantasy.”
In addition to his various story cycles revolving around the concepts of the multiverse and the eternal champion, Moorcock has written several other books that have secured his legacy as an author. Behold the Man (1967), a novella and one of his few works that is singularly science fiction, received the Nebula Award in 1968. Gloriana, or the Unfulfill’d Queen: Being a Romance (1978) is a sexual parable set in Elizabethan England, parodying Spenser’s The Faerie Queene as well as heavily acknowledging Meryvn Peake’s Gormenghast. Mother London (1988) is more a mainstream fabulation, a biography of the city presented as masque for which he received considerable critical acclaim. Along with the Jerry Cornelius novel The Condition of Muzak (1977), many feel these four books represent the best of a large and outstanding body of work.
In addition to the Nebula Award for Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock has also been the recipient of the British Fantasy Award on five occasions: in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976. The Condition of Muzak received the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1977. Both the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award were given to Gloriana in 1979. In 1993 Moorcock won the British Fantasy Committee Award and an additional World Fantasy Award in 2000 for lifetime achievement.
1 Clute, John, and John Grant, eds., The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), p. 660
Michael John Moorcock is one of the 20th century's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy authors. Born in London, England on December 18, 1939, he now divides his time between Bastrop, Texas and France.
Moorcock first entered the professional literary scene in 1957 at the age of 17, when he became the editor of _Tarzan Adventures_. During his editing tenure he published a number of stories devoted to Sorjan the Swordsman, which formed the first of Moorcock's heroic fantasy oeuvre. In these early years he also edited the _Sexton Blake Library_, a collection of stories based around the popular British literary character once described as "the poor man's Sherlock Holmes". (Moorcock would later use Blake as the basis for his own 'metatemporal detective' Sexton Begg.) In 1958 Moorcock produced his first of many works for the magazine _New Worlds_, "Going Home". His first published novel was _The Sundered Worlds_, originally published in November 1962 as a novella in _Science Fiction Adventures_and expanded into a full-fledged novel in 1965. In 1964 Moorcock became the editor of _New Worlds_. His editorship marked _New Worlds_as one of the major forces in the development of so-called "New Wave" science fiction, a literary movement that redefined science fiction with a more modernist and experimental style, and that focused less on technological change and development (as does traditional 'hard' science fiction). Although the level of true rupture and opposition between the New Wave and previous generations of SF literature is debatable (as is the degree to which the New Wave actually constitued a "movement"), the New Wave (of which Moorcock and J.G. Ballard are often considered core founders) did produce a number of authors with lasting reputations, including John Brunner, Samuel Delaney, and Harlan Ellison.
Moorcock is responsible for a large and broad body of work. Notable individual works of his include the 1966 novella "Behold The Man", which won the Nebula Award and which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a man who travels through time and ends up assuming the historical identity of Jesus Christ; _Mother London_(1988), a Whitbread Prize nominee that disjointedly and chaotically chronicles the history of the city of London and which spawned a partial sequel in 2000, _King of the City_; the Pyat Quartet, a series of 4 novels written between 1981 and 2006 that relates the life of Colonel Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, a drug-addicted anti-Semitic (despite himself being Jewish) antihero who wanders from Tsarist Russia to the Western world over decades of history; and _Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen_(1978), a novel set in a re-imagined Elizabethan Britain. _Gloriana_won both the 1979 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the 1979 World Fantasy Award (Best Novel).
However, Moorcock's most famous and important literary contribution is his creation of the so-called "Multiverse". _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_defines the Multiverse as "a universe consisting of innumerable alternate worlds, all intersecting, laterally and (palimpsest-fashion) vertically. Some of these parallel worlds operate according to SF premises, some - like the worlds in which various avatars of Moorcock's Eternal Champion series play out their linked destinies - operate in fantasy terms. Worlds governed by incompatible premises are not, however, barred from each other and in this sense the overall concept belongs more properly to fantasy than to Sf. Moorcock himself treats his extremely large and varied oeuvre as though all its venues occupy niches in the one multiverse". Thus, all of Moorcock's fictional work can be seen to take place in the same intersecting and overlapping realm.
Key to an understanding of the Multiverse is Moorcock's invention of the "Eternal Champion". The Eternal Champion is an endlessly recurring figure whose destiny is to preserve the universal balance between Law and Chaos (the two forces that dominate Moorcock's cosmology). The Champion does not necessarily fight for good or evil per se, but instead works to right the cosmic order whenever the balance tips too much towards one side or the other. Moorock's Multiverse is a shared universe, in which he has frequently allowed other authors to write works in.
Moorcock first explicitly introduced The Eternal Champion in the 1970 novel of the same name, this incarnation being identified as John Dakar, a 20th-century human who is unique among Champions as actually being able to know his role, his destiny, and the identity of other incarnations. This novel marked the first of the _Eternal Champion_sequence, which eventually came to encompass numerous novels and stories that chronicle a number of different Champions, including (among others) Dorian Hawkmoon, Graf Ulrich Von Bek, Corum Jhaelen Irsei, Jherek Carnelian, Michael Kane, and Oswald Bastable.
Outside the main _Champion_sequence, Moorcock's most famous protagonists (themselves also incarnations of the Champion) are Elric of Melnibone and Jerry Cornelius. Elric, who first appeared in Moorcock''s story "The Dreaming City", published in _Science Fantasy_#47 (June 1961), is an antihero who both reflects and satirizes the conventions of heroic sword-and-sorcery fantasy. He is the last Emperor of Melnibone, an island civilization on an ancient alternate Earth. Elric has a notable physical appearance, being an albino, and he is also physically weak and must rely on drugs to retain health and strength. He wields the magical black sword Stormbringer, which brings Elric strength but which can only flourish by eating the souls of the people it destroys. Elric is probably Moorcock's best-known character, and he has appeared in novels, short stories, and comic books.
Jerry Cornelius is another major figure in the Multiverse. He first appeared in the novel _The Final Programme_(1969) and stars in 3 additional novels published between 1971 and 1977 as well as numerous additional short stories and novellas. Cornelius is a hip, ambigiously sexual secret agent and adventurer whose adventures are odd and highly nonstructured, and who is something of a clownish figure. He recurs in one form or another throughout many of Moorcock's works (note, for example, that two of Moorcock's other Champions are named Corum Jhaelen Irsei and Jherek Carnelian: the former is an anagram of Cornelius and the latter shares his initals and similar lettering).
In addition to his literary output, Moorcock has also enjoyed a musical career. He has collaborated on numerous occasions with the bands Hawkwind (whose album _The Chronicle of the Black Sword_is based on Elric's adventures) and Blue Oyster Cult. His own musical project, Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix, released the album _New Worlds Fair_in 1975, and has subsequently released _Roller Coaster Holiday_(2004) and _The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions_(2008).
Moorcock has received numerous awards and accolades over the course of his career. In addition tothe awards previously mentioned, he has won the August Derleth Fantasy Award four times, the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story ("The Jade Man's Eyes", 1974), the 1977 _Guardian_Fiction Award (for _The Condition of Muzak_). He has also won the 1993 British Fantasy Ward, the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the 2004 Prix Utopiales "Grandmaster" Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 2008 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Moorcock was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002.
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This collection consists of manuscripts and related materials from noted science fiction and fantasy author Michael Moorcock.
Arrangement of materials is, generally, in the order purchased.
These materials are stored offsite and require additional time for retrieval.
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Descriptions of Michael Moorcock Manuscripts. 6 leaves, photocopies of printed leaves.
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The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (1980), manuscript, May 1980
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The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1980), notes
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The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1980), photos, and photocopy of text
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A Cure for Cancer (1971, revised 1979) Proofs of revised version, May 1979. Handwritten cover note by author. 8 corrected sheets. 240 leaves.
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The English Assassin (1979), paged galleys
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), galleys
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), First draft, Vol. I. Chapters 1 - 14. Typed, 224 leaves, photocopied.
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), First draft, Vol. II. Chapters 15 - 35. Typed, 305 leaves, photocopied.
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, 1979, photocopied (Folder 1)
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, 1979, photocopied (Folder 2)
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, 1979, photocopied (Folder 3)
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, 1979, photocopied (Folder 4)
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, Book II, 1979, photocopied. (Folder 1)
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, Book II, 1979, photocopied. (Folder 2)
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Byzantium Endures (1981), Working draft, Book II, 1979, photocopied. (Folder 3)
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The Golden Barge (1979), manuscript, chapters 1 - 12
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The Golden Barge (1979), manuscript, chapters 13 - 19
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The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century (1976), galleys
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Various Magazines: Tarzan Adventures Vol. 7, No. 39, Vol. 8, No. 3, Vol. 9, No. 3, Vol. 9, No. 5.;
Triode #20 (fanzine, 1974)
Book Collectors News #1 (fanzine, 1955)
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Gloriana, or the Unfulfilled Queen (1979), corrected manuscript, chapters 1 - 6
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Gloriana, or the Unfulfilled Queen (1979), corrected manuscript, chapters 7 - 13
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Gloriana, or the Unfulfilled Queen (1979), corrected manuscript, chapters 14 - 22
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Gloriana, or the Unfulfilled Queen (1979), corrected manuscript, chapters 23 - 33
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Miscellaneous correspondence to and from Moorcock [ mostly photocopies], 1968, 1979, undated
Moorcock, Michael to Tim Shackleton. June 16, 1979, re: rough draft of Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Transcript of Tim Shackleton's Comments on Byzantium Endures. 2 leaves, photocopies.
Form letter from "Director" re: Michael Moorcock Fantasy Novel Kit. 1 leaf.
Moorcock to Simon. No date, re: Final Programme, Between the Wars. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Map of parking facilities in area around Television Center, London.
Cover leaf for The English Assassin. Photocopy, 1 leaf.
Cover leaf for The Final Programme, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Photocopy of drawing of a fist coming through a wall.
Answers to Correspondents. Photocopy, 1 leaf.
Shackleton, Tim to Moorcock. March 13, 1979, re: The Final Programme proofs. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Advertising flier for Byzantium Endures. Photocopy, 1 leaf.
Robin to Moorcock. May 4, 1979, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf.
Moorcockl to Simon. No date, re: play. ALS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Simon King. June 8, 1979, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Robin to Moorcock. May 4, 1979, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Rick Bilyeu. March 14, 1979, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Advertising flier for Between the Wars by Moorcock. Photocopy, 1 leaf.
Moorcock to Giles. No date, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Peter. No date, re: new novel. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to John. No date, re: Transmaniacon. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Giles. No date, re: photos. ALS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Photocopy of two Cossack pistols.
Baird-Smith, Robin to Giles Gordon. March 7, 1979, re: typescript. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
King, Simon to Giles Gordon. March 6, 1979, re: New Worlds. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Lois Wallace. Dated Tues. 29th, 1979, re: commissions, Gloriana. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Des de Mor. No date, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 3 leaves, photocopies.
Bennett, Ron to Moorcock. March 8, 1979, re: New Worlds, list of material. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Two leaves of typed postscript to letter from Moorcock, photocopies.
Moorcock to Giles. Dated Sunday, re: completing book. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Tim. No date, re: Cossack pistols. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopied with two pistols.
Shackleton, Tim to Moorcock. March 13, 1979, re: proofs of The Final Programme. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Shackleton, Tim to Moorcock. No date, postcard.
Moorcock to Tim. No date, re: trip to Russia. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopies.
Book Review. Typed, 3 leaves, photocopies.
Byzantium Endures revisions. Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy with handwritten corrections, and note to Robin on back.
Moorcock to Giles. No date, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Handwritten note. Photocopy, 1 leaf.
Shackleton, Tim to Moorcock. May 1, 1970, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Robin. No date, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Craig. No date, re: Gloriana. TLS, 5 leaves, photocopies.
Smith, Craig to Moorcock. April 4, 1979, re: Gloriana. TLS, 4 leaves, photocopies.
Shackleton, Tim to Moorcock. March 30, 1979, re: English Assassin, Cure for Cancer. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy. Attached:
Cover leaves for the two books and drawing of fist coming through a wall, all photocopies.
Moorcock to Robin Straus. April 3, 1979, re: contracts. TLS, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Moorcock to Mike Bailey. Sunday, re: corrected Quartet edition. TL, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Tim. No date, re: working draft. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy with picture of Watership Down 2 cartoon.
Moorcock to Josef. March 2, 1979, re: politics. TLS, 5 leaves, photocopies.
Postscript to letter from Moorcock. No date. Regarding films, autobiography. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Giles. March 2, 1979. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Giles. No date, re: Russians. ALS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Giles. No date, re: Byzantium Endures. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy with picture of Squire Goring.
Robin to Giles Gordon. February 1979, re: Gloriana, ad, jacket sketch for Catherine Cornelius. TLS, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Gordon, Giles to Moorcock. February 20, 1979, re: exclamation marks. TLS, 2 leaves.
Moorcock to Robin. No date, re: David Hartwell, The Incalling. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Clive Allison. February 15, 1979, re: feelings of disgust about him. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Giles. No date, re: Book Two. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Moorcock to Renee. January 31, no year, re: Mrs. C. Between the Wars. ALS, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Moorcock to Josef. January 10, 1979, re: Behold the Man. TLS, 3 leaves, photocopies.
Photocopies of three Cossack pistols. 2 leaves.
Advertising flier for The Entropy Tango. Photocopy, 1 leaf.
List of revised dates for forthcoming titles. Typed, 2 leaves.
A Note to the Reader. January 1979. Typed, 1 leaf.
Cienfuegos Press, Anarchist Review, Leaf 41. 2 photocopies.
Transcript of Tim Shackleton's Comments on Byzantium Endures. Typed, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Invitation to the opening of new Sales Center for Big O Publishing Co.
Photocopies of the title leaf, copyright, dedication, and table of contents for The English Assassin. 5 leaves.
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Draft Fragments, Byzantium Endures (1981) and other works, 1979 and undated
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Byzantium Endures (1981) Miscellaneous manuscript fragments Typed, 115 leaves, combination of original and photocopies, with handwritten corrections.
Byzantium Endures. Revisions. Typed, 1 leaf, with photocopy.
Photocopy of first leaf of Chapter 10 of Byzantium Endures.
Byzantium Endures. Dramatis Personae. Typed, 5 leaves, photocopies.
Byzantium Endures. Rough map showing main cities. Photcopy, 1 leaf.
Photocopy of Railway Map of Russia. 1 leaf.
Photocopy of street map of St. Petersburg. 1 leaf.
Photocopy of street map, written in Russian. 1 leaf.
Dedication leaf from Byzantium Endures. Typed, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Last leaf of Byzantium Endures. Typed, 1 leaf.
Advertising flier for Byzantium Endures. Photocopies, 4 leaves.
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The Cornelius Chronicles, galleys, photocopied.
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The Eternal Champion (1978), manuscript [master set], chapters 1 - 15
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The Eternal Champion (1978), manuscript [master set], chapters 16 - 25
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The Eternal Champion (1978), manuscript, galley proofs with edits
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The Eternal Champion (1978), revised text
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The Condition of Muzak (1978), galleys for revised edition
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), final working copy, 1977:
Harry [Mike Harrison] to Moorcock, April 16, 1978, re: Gloriana. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy
Five leaves of photocopies of newspaper clippings
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), final working copy, 1977, chapters 1 - 10
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), final working copy, 1977, chapters 10 - 21
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), final working copy, 1977, chapters 22 - 26
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Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (1979), final working copy, 1977, chapters 27 - 35
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Byzantium Endures (1981), working draft with new revisions, 1979, pages 1 - 120, photocopied.
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Byzantium Endures (1981), working draft with new revisions, 1979, pages 121 - 256, photocopied.
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Byzantium Endures (1981), working draft with new revisions, 1979, pages 257 - 445, photocopied.
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Byzantium Endures (1981), working draft with new revisions, 1979, pages 446 - 562, photocopied.
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Byzantium Endures (1981), working draft with new revisions, 1979
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"For One Day Only, Two Mighty Empres Clash" [story], 1978, various drafts
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"The Frozen Cardinal" [story], 1987, 1st and 2nd drafts
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"Going to Canada" [story], 1978, 1st and final drafts
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Introduction by Moorcock, to Gregg Press edition of Harlan Ellison's Paingod and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, 1979, manuscript
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The English Assassin (1972), various false starts
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"Elric At The End of Time" [story], 1979, manuscript
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"Duel Among The Wine Green Suns" [unpublished story], manuscript with cover letter
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"Crossing Into Cambodia" [story], 1979, 1st and final draft
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Introduction, by Moorcock, to Henry Treece's The Great Captains (1978), manuscript
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"The Swords of Heaven, The Flowers of Hell" [comic strip], 1978, outline - original and photocopy
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"Starship Stormtroopers" [article for Anarchist Review #4, 1978], manuscript
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"What The Public Wants" [unpublished story], 1959, manuscript
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The Warlord of the Air (1971), rough drawings, research material and original outline
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The Warlord of the Air (1971), 1st draft of Part II, with edits
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The Warlord of the Air (1971), manuscript of Part III
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The Warlord of the Air (1971), manuscript of Part IV
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The Warlord of the Air (1971), miscellaneoue false starts
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The Russian Intelligence (1980), paged proofs, photocopied.
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Something Else #1 (Spring 1980), containing "Dream of A Doomed Lord" by Moorcock and Cawthorn, and "The Russian Intelligence" by Moorcock
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The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982), abbrievated version - galleys, photocopied. Also included: copy of Interzone #1 (Spring 1982) containing story
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The Hollow Lands (1974), paged galleys, photocopied
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The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century (1976), paged galleys, photocopied
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Byzantium Endures (1981), galleys with edits, photocopied, pages 1- 164
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Byzantium Endures (1981), galleys with edits, photocopied, pages 165 - 332
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Byzantium Endures (1981), galleys with edits, photocopied, pages 333 - 587
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Byzantium Endures (1981), U.S. proof, pages 1 - 141
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Byzantium Endures (1981), U.S. proof, pages 142 - 404
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Editorials: "An Effective Use of Space", editorial block, with handwritten corrections
"A Welcome Choice", editorial block with handwritten corrections
"Dr. Peristyle", questions and answers, with handwritten corrections
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Three original drawings by Harry Harrison, 1965?.
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Manuscript of "Girl and Robot with Flowers", and "Old Time's Sake", by Brian Aldiss, 1965
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The Exploded Heart, by John Shirley, 1996, manuscript, photocopied
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Pieces for New Worlds, 1965: "Searchhing for Truth" and "And Worlds Renewed" by G. Collyn
"The Pulse of Time", by W.J. Webb
"Songflower", by K. Hoare
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Pieces for New Worlds, 1965: "The Pleasure Gardens of Felipe Sagittarius" and a review of Moorcock's Stormbringer, both by J. Colvin, manuscripts
"An Outstanding Space Story" and "Preliminary Data", both by Moorcock, manuscripts
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Danny Jones, Time Traveller in Danny Saves The Bacon, typescript, undated
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Various Pieces, 1965; '"Traveller's Rest", by D Masson, manuscript
"Brian Aldiss", by P. White, manuscript
"Don't Read the Jackets", manuscript
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A Working Writers Relationship with the Modern Booktrade - The Michael Moorcock Deposit Now Held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, October 1977, by B.J.C. Hinton. Manuscript, photocopied.
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Photos, one 5x7 of Michael Moorcock, two 2x4 of Rick B. Icyn, and eighteen various photos of London, Moorcock, and Icyn.
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The World of the Air (1971), advance proofs
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The Black Corridor (1969), advance proofs
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"Going to Canada" [story, 1980], early draft, 1978
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The Steel Tsar (1981), manuscript, pages 1 - 78
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The Steel Tsar (1981), manuscript, pages 79 - 208
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The Steel Tsar (1981), manuscript, second copy (photocopy)
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The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1981), 1st draft with handwritten corrections, chapters 1 - 2
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Moorcock, Michael. Leaf 1 of The War Hound and the World's Pain, Chapter 1. Typed, 1 leaf.
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The Last Days of Man on Earth by Michael Moorcock. Advertising flyer. Printed, 1 leaf.
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The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1981), 1st draft with handwritten corrections, chapter 3
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The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), manuscript, page 1 of chapter 1
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The Dragon In The Sword (1987), manuscript with edits, Book One
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The Dragon In The Sword (1986), manuscript with edits, Book Two
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The Dragon In The Sword (1986), manuscript with edits, Book Three
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The Dragon In The Sword (1986), proofs of British edition, 1987
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The Laughter of Carthage (1984), 1st draft, chapter 1 - 3
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The Laughter of Carthage (1984), 1st draft, chapter 4 - 9
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The Laughter of Carthage (1984), 1st draft, chapter 10 - 11
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The Laughter of Carthage (1984), 1st draft, chapter 12 - 14
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The Laughter of Carthage (1984), 1st draft, chapter 15 - 16
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Book covers for A Bas Le Cancer (A Cure For Cancer, 1971), and L'Assassin Anglaise (The English Assassin, 1972)
Ad for Les Aventures de Jerry Cornelius, 1991
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Introduction, by Brian Aldiss, to H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, typescript
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"Lunching With The Antichrist" [story, 1992], manuscript
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The New Nature of the Catastrophe [edited anthology, 1993], galleys, pages 1 - 185
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The New Nature of the Catastrophe [edited anthology, 1993], galleys, pages 187 - 307
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The New Nature of the Catastrophe [edited anthology, 1993], galleys, pages 308 - 434, and book cover
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Fanzine: "Free States Times, New Worlds Incorp. Startling Stories, photocopy and handcolored
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Materials for Moorcock's speech on "The SF Year for 1895", undated
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"The Tanelorn Archivist, or The Nature of the Bibliography" [Moorcock bibliography], by Richard Bilyeu, 1979, with correspondence
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Elric board game [without box] - various playing pieces, Rule Book
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Copy of New Worlds #212 [fanzine], Spring 1978
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Copy of New Worlds #214 [fanzine], 1978.
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Collection of printed cards with drawings of Michael Moorcock characters. Each has original envelope.
"Mongrove" from W.H. Allen's Legends from the End of Time by Moorcock
"Lord Jagged of Canaria" from Hart Davis MacGibbon's The End of All Songs by Moorcock
"The Arrival of the Fire Clown" from W.H. Allen's Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming by Moorcock
"Twilight Tower" from Moorcock's The Shores of Death
"The Ice Spirit" from Moorcock's The Ice Schooner
"Hawkmoon Defends Castle Brass" from Moorcock's The Jewel in the Skull
"The Great Mishassa" from Moorcock's Lord of the Spiders
"Corum Escapes" from Moorcock's The Knight of the Swords
"Elric & Moonglum" from Moorcock's The Sleeping Sorceress
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Greeting card with printed drawing of "Fish Supper" from Mythopoeikon. Included is envelope.
Advertising flyer for Collector's Edition of The Vanishing Tower by Moorcock. Printed, 1 leaf.
Package of greeting cards with drawings of characters that appear to be based on Moorcock's writings.
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Adverstising flyer for two Art Prints of Elric by Michael Wheelan, 1 printed leaf.
Advertising flyer for Two Man Horse Exhibition Print of "Grome", printed, 1 leaf.
Advertising flyer for Stormbringer by Moorcock, printed, 1 leaf.
Advertising flyer for Elric, the Portfolio by Brunner, printed, 1 leaf.
Original drawing of Elric done in black marker by Michael King, 1977
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Printed song book for Mirrors by Blue Oyster Cult, 1979
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Record (45 rpm) of Last Days of Man on Earth [film, 1973]
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B/W stills from Last Days of Man on Earth [film, 1973]
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Ad flyer for Last Days of Man on Earth [film, 1973]
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Various introductions by Moorcock, to Earl Aubec and Others, Count Brass, and Stormbringer
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Covers for New Worlds 3, 1993
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Piece on Moorcock by Angela Carter, printed, 1991
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Various photographs of Moorcock's library, undated
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Audio cassette: Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix, at AggieCon, March 1993
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Elric: Battle at the End of Time board game (Chaosium, Inc.)
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Record Albums:
Space Ritual. Hawkwind (Musical group), 2001, 1972 Sound Recording : LP recording 2 sound discs (88 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Contents: Earth calling --; Born to go --; Down through the night --; The awakening --; Lord of light --; The black corridor --; Space is deep --; Electronic no. 1 --; Orgone accumulator --; Upside down --; 10 seconds of forever --; Brainstorm --; 7 by 7 --; Sonic attack --; Time we left this world today --; Master of the universe --; Welcome to the future --; bonus tracks:; You shouldn't do that ;; Master of the universe ;; Born to go. Descriptor: Heavy metal (Music) Rock music -- 1971-1980.
Music from the original soundtrack Nighthawks. Keith Emerson; Godfrey Salmon. 1981 LP recording 1 sound disc (38 min., 42 sec.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm., stereo. ; 12 in. Universal City, Calif. : Backstreet Records, Contents: Nighthawks : main title theme -- Mean stalkin' -- The bust -- Nighthawking -- The chase -- I'm a man -- The chopper -- Tramway -- I'm comin' in -- Face to face -- The flight of a hawk.
Doremi Fasol Latido. Hawkwind (Musical group), 1972 LP recording 1 sound disc (42 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Los Angeles, Calif. : United Artists, Contents: Brainstorm -- Space is deep -- One change -- Lord of light -- Down through the night -- Time we left this world today -- The watcher.
Warrior On the Edge of Time. Hawkwind (Musical group), 1975. LP recording 1 sound disc (45 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Munich: United Artists Records GMBH, 1975. Contents: Assault & battery, part I -- The golden void, part II -- The wizard blew his horn -- Opa-Loka -- The demented man -- Magnu -- Standing at the edge -- Spiral galaxy 28948 -- Warriors -- Dying seas -- Kings of speed. Note(s): Participants: Dave Brock, guitar, synthesiser, bass guitar, vocal ; Nik Turner, tenor and soprano sax, flute, vocal ; Lemmy, bass guitar ; Simon House, keyboards ; Simon King, Allan Powell, percussion ; Mike Moorcock, vocal.
Warrior On the Edge of Time. Hawkwind (Musical group), 1975. LP recording 1 sound disc (45 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. London: Liberty-United Records, 1975. Contents: Assault & battery, part I -- The golden void, part II -- The wizard blew his horn -- Opa-Loka -- The demented man -- Magnu -- Standing at the edge -- Spiral galaxy 28948 -- Warriors -- Dying seas -- Kings of speed. Note(s): Participants: Dave Brock, guitar, synthesiser, bass guitar, vocal ; Nik Turner, tenor and soprano sax, flute, vocal ; Lemmy, bass guitar ; Simon House, keyboards ; Simon King, Allan Powell, percussion ; Mike Moorcock, vocal on tracks 3 and 9.
In Search of Space. Hawkwind (Musical group), 1972. LP recording 1 sound disc (42 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Los Angeles : United Artists, Contents: You shouldn't do that -- You know you're only dreaming -- Master of the universe -- We took the wrong step years ago -- Adjust me -- Children of the sun.
Lucky Leif and the Longships. Robert Calvert. S.l.: United Artists, 1975. LP recording 1 sound disc,: analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Contents: 1. Ship of Fools 2. Lay of the Surfers 3. Voyaging to Vinland 4. Making of Midgard 5. Brave New World 6. Magical Potion 7. Moonshine in the Mountains 8. Storm Chant of the Skraelings 9. Volstead O Vodeo Do 10. Phase Locked Loop 11. Ragna Rock
Sonic Attack. Hawkwind. London: RCA Limited/Active, 1981 LP recording 1 sound disc,: analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Contents: "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock/Hawkwind) 4:47; "Rocky Paths" (Lloyd-Langton) 4:00; "Psychosonia" (Moorcock/Hawkwind) 2:32; "Virgin Of The World" (Bainbridge) 4:32; "Angels of Death" (Brock) 5:42; "Living On A Knife Edge" (Brock) 4:48; "Coded Languages" (Moorcock/Bainbridge) 4:50; "Disintegration" (Brock) 1:05; "Streets Of Fear" (Brock) 5:19; "Lost Chances" (Moorcock/Brock) 5:44
Cultösaurus Erectus. Blue Öyster Cult (Musical group). 1980. LP recording 1 sound disc (41 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. N.Y., N.Y. : Columbia. Contents: Black blade -- Monsters -- Divine wind -- Deadline -- The Marshall plan -- Hungry boys -- Fallen angel -- Lips in the hills -- Unknown tongue.
Mirrors. Blue Öyster Cult (Musical group). 1979. LP recording, 1 sound disk, 2 s.; 33 1/3 rpm. stereo.; 12 in. No linguistic content. Contents: Dr. Music -- The great sun jester -- In thee -- Mirrors -- Moon crazy -- The vigil -- I am the storm -- You're not the one (I was looking for) -- Lonely teardrops.
Hall of the Mountain Grill. Hawkwind (Musical group), 1974. LP recording 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Los Angeles, Calif. : United Artists Records. Contents: The psychedelic warlords (disappear in smoke) -- Wind of change -- D-rider -- Web weaver -- You'd better believe it -- Hall of the mountain grill --Lost Johnnie -- Goat willow -- Paradox.
The New World’s Fair. Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix. London: United Artists, 1975. LP Recording, 33 1.3 rpm, 12 inches. 1 vinyl disk. Stereo. Contents: 1 Candy Floss Cowboy (Narration) (1:20); 2 Candy Floss Cowboy (Demo Version) (4:26); 3 Fair Dealer (5:07); 4 Octopus (0:34); 5 16 Year Old Doom. (2:27); 6 You're a Hero (4:16); 7 Song for Marlene (0:12); 8 Dodgem Dude (3:11); 9 Come to the Fair (0:17); 10 Starcruiser (5:09); 11 In the Name of Rock and Roll (2:45); 12 Ferris Wheel (1:20); 13 Last Merry Go Round (3:14); 14 Dude's Dream (0:24); 15 Brothel in Rosenstrasse (4:07); 16 (Untitled Hidden Track) (0:32); 17 (Untitled Hidden Track); (5:56); 18 (Untitled Hidden Track) (0:19); 19 (Untitled Hidden Track) (2:11); 20 (Untitled Hidden Track) (0:14) 21 (Untitled Hidden Track) (4:42); 22 (Untitled Hidden Track) (3:44).