Editing Michael Moorcock (section)

===Sharing fictional universes with others===

Moorcock has allowed other writers to create stories in his fictional Jerry Cornelius universe. [[Brian Aldiss]], [[Hilary Bailey]], [[M. John Harrison]], [[Norman Spinrad]], [[James Sallis]], and [[Steve Aylett]] have written such stories. In an interview published in ''[[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]],'' Moorcock explains the reason for sharing his character:

{{Blockquote|I came out of popular fiction and Jerry was always meant to be a sort of crystal ball for others to see their own visions in – the stories were designed to work like that – a diving board, to use another analogy, from which to jump into the river and be carried along by it. [...] All of these have tended to use Jerry the way I intended to use him – as a way of seeing modern life and sometimes as a way of commenting on it. Jerry, as Harrison said, was as much a technique as a character and I'm glad that others have taken to using that method.<ref>{{Cite web | title=An Interview with Michael Moorcock | author=Mike Coombes | publisher=The Internet Review of Science Fiction | url=http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10115 | access-date=18 February 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051122070102/http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10115 | archive-date=22 November 2005 | url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

Two short stories by [[Keith Roberts]], "Coranda" and "The Wreck of the Kissing Bitch", are set in the frozen Matto Grosso plateau of Moorcock's 1969 novel, ''The Ice Schooner''.

Elric of Melnibone and Moonglum appear in [[Karl Edward Wagner]]'s story "The Gothic Touch", where they meet with [[Kane (fantasy)|Kane]], who borrows Elric for his ability to deal with demons.
 
He is a friend and fan of [[Comics|comic book]] writer [[Alan Moore]] and allowed Moore the use of his own character, Michael Kane of Old Mars, mentioned in Moore's ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II]]''. The two appeared on stage at the Vanbrugh Theatre in London in January 2006 where they discussed Moorcock's work. The Green City from ''Warriors of Mars'' was also referenced in [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Rainbow Mars]]''. Jerry Cornelius appeared in Moore's ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century]]''.

Cornelius also appeared in French artist [[Jean Giraud|Mœbius]]' comic series ''[[Airtight Garage|Le Garage Hermétique]]''.

In 1995–96, Moorcock wrote a script for a computer game/film/novel by [[Origin Systems]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Origin|journal=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=13 |publisher=[[Imagine Media]] |date=January 1996|pages=105–8|quote=We've also got a game called ''Silver Heart'' that should be coming out next year. It's going to be an adventure-fantasy in the cinematic fold of ''[[Wing Commander (franchise)|Wing Commander]]'', with a script by Michael Moorcock.}}</ref> When Electronic Arts bought Origins, the game was cancelled, but Moorcock's 40,000-word treatment was fleshed out by [[Storm Constantine]], resulting in the novel ''Silverheart''. The story is set in Karadur-Shriltasi, a city at the heart of the [[Parallel universe (fiction)|Multiverse]]. A second novel, ''Dragonskin'', was in preparation, with Constantine as the main writer, but she died in January 2021, after a long illness. Moorcock abandoned a memoir about his friends Mervyn Peake and [[Maeve Gilmore]] because he felt it was too personal.
[[File:Michael Moorcock.jpg|thumb|Moorcock in 2006]]
He wrote prose and verse for ''The Sunday Books'' first publication in French to accompany a set of unpublished Peake drawings. His book ''The Metatemporal Detective'' was published in 2007. His most recent book published first in French is ''Kaboul'', in 2018.

In November 2009, Moorcock announced<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showpost.php?p=182334&postcount=1| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606124841/http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showpost.php?p=182334&postcount=1| url-status=dead| archive-date=6 June 2011|title=BY TARDIS THROUGH THE MULTIVERSE}}</ref> that he would be writing a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel for [[BBC Books]] in 2010, one of the few occasions when he has written stories set in other people's "shared universes".<ref>{{Cite news | author = Michael Moorcock | title = I'm Writing the New Doctor Who | newspaper = The Guardian | location = UK | date = 21 November 2009 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/21/michael-moorcock-doctor-who-author | access-date = 22 June 2010 | archive-date = 5 December 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131205005129/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/21/michael-moorcock-doctor-who-author | url-status = live }}</ref> The novel ''[[The Coming of the Terraphiles]]'' was released in October 2010. The story merges Doctor Who with many of Moorcock's characters from the multiverse, notably Captain Cornelius and his pirates.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Doctor Who The Coming of the Terraphiles Michael Moorcock | publisher = BBC Books | date = 11 June 2010 | url = http://www.multiverse.org/imagehive/d/93291-1/The+Coming+of+the+Terraphiles+pr.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120402030106/http://www.multiverse.org/imagehive/d/93291-1/The+Coming+of+the+Terraphiles+pr.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2 April 2012 | access-date = 22 June 2010 }}</ref> In 2016 Moorcock published the first novel in what he terms a literary experiment blending memoir and fantasy, ''The Whispering Swarm''.  In 2018, he announced his completion of the second volume ''The Woods of Arcady''. In 2020, he said he was completing the final Elric novel ''The Citadel of Forgotten Myths'' ready for Elric's 60th anniversary in 2021. Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novella ''Pegging the President'' was launched in 2018 at [[Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)|Shakespeare and Co]], Paris, where he discussed his work with [[Hari Kunzru]] and reaffirmed his commitment to literary experiment.