Gloriana Or the Unfulfilled Queen (Flamingo) [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Book Description

Series: Flamingo | Publication Date: March 1986

Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen is an award-winning work of literary fantasy by British novelist Michael Moorcock. It was first published in 1978 and has remained in print ever since.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Flamingo (March 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006540597
• ISBN-13: 978-0006540595
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,584,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, September 23, 2007

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This review is from: Gloriana Or the Unfulfilled Queen (Flamingo) (Paperback)

Gloriana is unfulfilled in that she can't easily get her rocks off, no matter how many bed warmers, gorgeous maids, or sex slaves she has. Even half-men/apes don't necessarily do it.

Her inattention leaves a fair burden on a couple of her employees, one of whom decides to use this for his own rise to power, and to get rid of the queen and destroy her empire.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long Live Gloriana, Queen of Albion!, January 24, 2004

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This review is from: Gloriana Or the Unfulfilled Queen (Flamingo) (Paperback)

If I could only have one volume of Moorcock in my library, I do believe that this would be it. I have heard this exquisite fantasy compared with Peake's Ghormanghast- except that an American will find Gloriana actually readable and enjoyable.

I can't think of a richer fantasy world encompased in a single self-sufficient novel. And while it is fantasy, it is not sugar-sweet and naive, it is fantasy most worldly and sophisticated. This global Elizabethan empire is quite convincingly atmospheric, as is London and the great palace itself. You want it to exist, hell, you want to go there.

You would not hesitate to pledge fealty to Gloriana the First, Queen of Albion, Empress of Asia and Virginia. You want to believe in the ideal she represents, in a world that would otherwise redescend into darkness and madness....