Gloriana
Format: ebook
ISBN:
7770645328
Publish date: May 30th 2009
Publisher: Aspect
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Erotica,
Sci Fi Fantasy,
Speculative Fiction,
Alternate History
Michael Moorcock is well known for having strong views on what type of fantasy he likes and what he doesn't. For instance, he doesn't like Tolkien but does like Peake, to whose memory he dedicated this book. It's a long time since I read the Gormenghast trilogy but there are some obvious parallels a...
Very few (possibly zero up till now) Fantasy authors have tried to imitate Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. Moorcock tries it here with a riff on the Faerie Queene and the results are impressive.
Queen Gloriana rules Albion, an alternate reality British Empire, with the help of her Chancellor, Montfallcon, and his dirty deeds in the name of the throne. Gloriana, as the title indicates, gets no release from sex and grows increasingly distraut. Montfallcon's main henchman, Quire, doesn't lik...
This was the first rather deviant science fiction book I'd read as a MINOR. My AP lit teacher senior year gave those of us who survived four years of "enriched" English a gift. Only 15 of us made it through to her class. She wasn't kidding when we started as freshmen and she told us to look left,...
16 years ago
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