Moorcock was writing fantasy in the late 60s and 70s when not many other people were, so he's definitely one of the big name writers for people who were getting into D&D in the late 70s and 80s.
But I don't seem him being namechecked now by younger SF and Fantasy fans, whereas Alastair Reynolds is probably up there with Peter F. Hamilton and Iain M. Banks as the major British SF authors while Stephen Baxter co-wrote several books with Terry Pratchett (which is about as mainstream as you can get while still writing science fiction). Amazon describes Baxter as "the pre-eminent SF author of his generation".
Moorcock has probably suffered in fannish awareness terms since moving away from writing lots of pulpy SF and fantasy to writing highbrow lit stuff like Mother London and the Colonel Pyat series, and not writing very much of it. Still popular among roleplayers though, just not as much as he was, so classic Stormbringer or Hawkmoon RPG material still fetches a decent price: http://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/cat/stormbringer-hawkmoon-elric/
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Date: 2015-11-12 11:11 am (UTC)But I don't seem him being namechecked now by younger SF and Fantasy fans, whereas Alastair Reynolds is probably up there with Peter F. Hamilton and Iain M. Banks as the major British SF authors while Stephen Baxter co-wrote several books with Terry Pratchett (which is about as mainstream as you can get while still writing science fiction). Amazon describes Baxter as "the pre-eminent SF author of his generation".
Moorcock has probably suffered in fannish awareness terms since moving away from writing lots of pulpy SF and fantasy to writing highbrow lit stuff like Mother London and the Colonel Pyat series, and not writing very much of it. Still popular among roleplayers though, just not as much as he was, so classic Stormbringer or Hawkmoon RPG material still fetches a decent price:
http://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/cat/stormbringer-hawkmoon-elric/