Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen (Fantasy Masterworks S.)

Amazon editorial review Gloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia. A new Golden Age of peace, enlightenment and prosperity has dawned. Gloriana is Albion and Albion is Gloriana; if one falls, so too will the other. And Gloriana is oppressed by the burden this places upon her - and by the fact that she remains incapable of orgasm. The maintenance of the delicate balance that keeps Albion and Gloriana thriving depends of Montfallcon, Gloriana's Chancellor, and on his network of spies and assassins - in particular on Quire, cold hearted seducer of virtue and murderer of innocence. When Quire falls out with Montfallcon, he forms an alliance with his greatest enemy and conceives a plan to ruin Gloriana, destroy Albion, the empire and the Golden Age itself. But even the utterly ruthless Quire does not fully understand what he has set in motion when he persuades the Queen to fall in love with him... Moorcock's masterly evocation of Gloriana's strange and secretive palace and of a vibrant London make this one of his most powerful and memorable novels.

also by Michael Moorcock in our collection:

• Stormbringer : Elric
• Alien Heat
• Black Corridor
• Blood
• Blood Red Game
• Breakfast in the Ruins
• Brothel in Rosenstrasse
• The Bull and the Spear
• Byzantium Endures (Flamingo S)
• Casablanca
• The Champion of Garathorm (The Chronicles of Castle Brass)
• Chinese Agent
• The City in the Autumn Stars
• Cornelius Chronicles/Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century/the Alchemist's Question: 003
• The Cornelius Chronicles: "English Assassin" and "Condition of Muzak" Bk. 2
• The Cornelius Quartet: The Final Program, a Cure for Cancer, the English Assassin, and the Condition of Muzak
• Corum: "Knight of the Swords", "Queen of the Swords", "King of the Swords" (Tale of the Eternal Champion S.)
• Count Brass (Eternal Champion S.)
• A Cure for Cancer
• Dragon in the Sword
• The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albino
• Elric at the End of Time
• Elric of Melnibone (The Tale of the Eternal Champion)
• The End of All Songs: The Dancers at the End of Time Book III
• The Entropy Tango
• The Eternal Champion (Tale of the Eternal Champion S.)
• Fabulous Harbours
• Final Programme
• The Fortress of the Pearl
• The Golden Barge
• The History of the Runestaff: "The Jewel in the Skull", "The Mad God's Amulet", "The Sword of the Dawn", "The Runestaff" (Fantasy Masterworks S.)
• The Hollow Lands (Dancers at the End of Time, Book 2)
• The Jewel in the Skull
• King of the City
• King of the Swords
• Knight of the Swords
• The Land Leviathan (The Oswald Bastable Series)
• The Laughter of Carthage (Flamingo S.)
• Legends from the End of Time
• Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
• London Bone
• The Mad God's Amulet (History of the Runestaff)
• Mother London
• The New Nature of the Catastrophe (Tale of the Eternal Champion S.)
• The Oak and the Ram (The Book of Corum)
• Opium General
• Phoenix in Obsidian (Mayflower Science Fantasy)
• Quest for Tanelorn
• The Russian Intelligence
• Sailor on the Seas of Fate
• Shores of Death
• Silverheart (A Novel of the Multiverse)
• Singing Citadel
• Sleeping Sorceress
• Stealer of Souls
• The Steel Tsar (The Oswald Bastable Series)
• The Sword and the Stallion (The Sixth Book of Corum)
• The Sword of the Dawn (History of the Runestaff)
• Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming
• Von Bek: "Warhound and the World's Pain", "City in the Autumn Stars", "Pleasure Gardens of Felipe Sagittarius" (Tale of the Eternal Champion S.)
• The War Amongst the Angels
• War Hound and the World's Pain
• Warlord of the Air (The Oswald Bastable Series)
• The Winds of Limbo (Roc S.)
• Wizardry and Wild Romance