That might be Gloriana, it might not. Moorcock's multiverse is ...
multiple. The Cornelius Quartet has, I seem to recall, "time-travel"
as one of it's strands. One the scenes I remember is when Jerry
returns to a re-invigorated London, a mixture of Dickens, Airships and
Art-deco.
Roger
On 5/24/07, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: "You Know You Want It"
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> I like this piece of and of it itself. It also remind's me - in a good
> way - of Michael Moorcock's Cornelius Quartet. His work was full of
> airships and decadence.
>
> Roger
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>
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> Years ago I greatly enjoyed some Moorcock alternate-world novels in which
> there was no WWI and the British Empire was chugging along nicely. Were
> those the Cornelius Quartet? I forgot them until this moment. Airships I'm
> currently involved w/ are those in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, which
> I'm 300 pages into (out of something like 1000). It's a steampunk version
> of Gravity's Rainbow, more genial and loosely-textured and finally, I
> suspect, darker. Reviews generally bad and/or mystified; but if you like
> graphic novels, which I do, I strongly recommend this: it's a graphic novel
> without pictures. One element is a gang of intrepid lads (the Chums of
> Chance) in an airship (the Inconvenient).
>
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