A review by markhodderauthor
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock

5.0

My Moorcock marathon now arrives at one of his major early novels, and one that I've never read before. Plainly a homage to his friend Mervyn Peake, this fantastically atmospheric and grotesque story had me hooked from start to finish. The characters are wonderful and the prose opulent. For sure, it's pretty obvious that Moorcock is self-consciously aping another's style, but he does it so well that it's impossible not to admire his technical proficiency, and then only when it intrudes, which it rarely does.