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<strong>By Steve Moore</strong>
<strong>288pp, HB, £20/£30</strong>
<strong>ISBN: 978-1-907222-06-1</strong>
<blockquote>A visionary decrypting of one of fringe-London's most potent downriver sites. Steve Moore's voyage through plural strands of time echoes the high craft of his namesake, Alan, and the honourable tradition of Michael Moorcock's <em>Gloriana</em>.
– <em>Iain Sinclair</em>

A masterpiece.<em> – Alan Moore</em></blockquote>
A jewelled whirlpool of a tale, <em>Somnium</em> is a richly poetic pagan fantasy, a narrative of shifting levels presented in a dazzling array of styles, ranging from that of the mediæval romance through Elizabethan tragedy to the Gothic novel and the sublime madness of the Decadents.

With its delirious and heartbroken text spiralling out from the classical myth of Endymion and the Greek lunar goddess Selene, <em>Somnium</em> is an extraordinary odyssey through love and loss and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.

Somnium also features a

<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>
Steve Moore has written comic-books, novels and non-fiction, including <em>Abslom Daak</em>, <em>Laser-Eraser &amp; Pressbutton</em>, <em>Hercules </em>and <em>The Trigrams of Han</em>. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with <em>Fortean Studies</em> and <em>Fortean Times</em>, to which he has been a frequent contributor since its inception. He lives in London.

Alan Moore is the internationally famous author of such graphic classics as <em>Lost Girls</em>, <em>Promethea</em>, <em>From Hell</em> and <em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</em>. Alan’s biography of Steve Moore, <em>Unearthing</em>, is available as an audio-recording and a forthcoming book from Lex Records, and will shortly be released in app form, illustrated by noted photographer Mitch Jenkins.

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