*This is great, all science fiction people should read this. It's like a bottled essence of sci-fi bohemianism.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/12/michael-moorcock-my-family-values
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"I had a close friend, Brian Alford, all my childhood who was about the same as a brother to me who lived with us a great deal of the time. He was the son of a neighbour who was somewhat feckless and wasn’t much of a mother to him. My wife, Linda, organised a 60th birthday for me in Texas and I came back two days after my mother had died in England to this huge party, and Brian was one of the surprise guests. It was just wonderful to see him. That party really was like being able to attend your own funeral. It was great. I don’t have to worry about dying because I’ve already been at my own funeral.
"My mother’s suitor was a married Austrian, Dr Jelinek, who became her friend and my mentor. He’d been a scientist in Austria and had to leave because he was half Jewish. Up until 1939 he went back and forth between Germany and Austria essentially buying captive Jews from the Nazis and bringing them to safety. He never mentioned to me what he’d done. The first best thing that happened to me was my father leaving, the second best thing was this other man coming into my life…."
