Editing Michael Moorcock (section)

===Views on fiction writing===

Moorcock is a fervent supporter of [[Mervyn Peake]]'s works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.langjones.com/moorc.html|title=Mervyn Peake|author=Michael Moorcock|date=1997|work=An abridged version of his introduction to the Folio Society edition of the Gormenghast trilogy|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305032147/http://www.langjones.com/moorc.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> <!--needs expansion too -P64 -->

Moorcock is critical  of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s works. He met both Tolkien and [[C. S. Lewis]] in his teens and claims to have liked them personally even though he does not admire them on artistic grounds. Moorcock criticised works such as ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' for their "[[Merry England]]" point of view, equating Tolkien's novel to ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' in his essay "[[Epic Pooh]]".<ref>{{Cite web | title=Epic Pooh | author=Michael Moorcock | publisher=RevolutionSF | url=http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953 | access-date=15 February 2009 | archive-date=24 March 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324100956/http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953 | url-status=live }}</ref> Even so, James Cawthorn and Moorcock included ''The Lord of the Rings'' in ''Fantasy: The 100 Best Books'' (Carroll & Graf, 1988), and their review is not dismissive.{{efn|name=cawthorn}}

Moorcock has also criticized writers for their [[political]] agendas. He included [[Robert A. Heinlein]] and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] among this group in a 1978 essay, "Starship Stormtroopers" (''Anarchist Review''). There he criticised the production of "authoritarian" fiction by certain canonical writers and Lovecraft for having [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]], [[misogynistic]], and [[racist]] viewpoints woven into his short stories.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Starship Stormtroopers |author=Michael Moorcock |publisher=A People's Libertarian Index |url=http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html |access-date=18 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021224193414/http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html |archive-date=24 December 2002 }}</ref>