Mother London
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| Mother London | |
 Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author | Michael Moorcock |
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| Cover artist | Peter Dyer |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
| Publication date | 1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 496 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-436-28461-8 |
| Followed by | King of the City |
Mother London (1988) is a novel by Michael Moorcock . It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Although the city of London itself is perhaps the central character, it follows three outpatients from a mental hospital, a music hall artist, a reclusive writer and a woman just awoken from a long coma, who experience the history of the city from the blitz to the late eighties though chaotic experience and sensory delusions. The novel is a compilation of episodes, snippets and sidelines, rather than a single coherent narrative. A piece in the Guardian called it 'a great, humane document' [1].
[edit] References
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
- Moorcock's Miscellany. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
- Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998). Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
