Was at a small con in the early 90s and there was a rumour that Moorcock was going to show up unexpectedly for a signing and I went out and raided a used bookstore for a few of his books, but I never did see him. Oh well. Been twenty years since I've read my Cornelius books. Need to re-read them.
Think I've met him once. Until I was 20-ish he lived a mile or so from here and books he'd been sent for review and disliked kept turning up in the local charity shops. Which is how I came to own a first edition of Pratchett's "The Carpet People".
That's pretty cool--I've never lived near an author I liked before unless you count living in the same city as John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") and Chris Fuhrman (who only wrote "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" before he died at age 31).
Well, living in the middle of London does mean living near a LOT of people. For example, China Mieville used to live about 200 yards away, and stood for election in the constituency that ends about 50 yards from my house; I was very annoyed I couldn't vote for him, he was certainly a more interesting candidate than any of the ones in my constituency.
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More prosaically, from Sanyo.
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It probably would take a circle with a radius of 60 miles or more from where I live in southeast georgia to equal the population of London. Oh well.