The War Amongst the Angels

The War Amongst the Angels pretty much makes Fabulous Harbours superfluous, in a lot of ways, as it is considerably better, and very funny at parts. Plenty of lighthearted English political satire, among other things. Some of the fictitious footnotes are hilarious. Sam, Rose, Jack, Von Bek, Dick Turpin and the Chaos Engineers face off with Lucifer, Quelch and the Singularity over the fate of the Grail, the Multiverse, and the Spammer Game in a climactic confrontation at the end. Really enjoyable book.

This is Moorcock at his best. "The War Amongst the Angels"has all the complexity and playfulness that we've come to expect from one of SF's proven masters.Long live the multiverse!

Moorcock's most ambitious fantasy. Goes with Blood and Fabulous Harbors to form a loose trilogy covering every obsession of a forty year career.

Moorcock is so rich it's possible to compare one of his books tosix books by equally good writers! Like the best work, this rewards a lot of rereadings and above all it's FUN. A fine writer at play.

This is one of the richest of Moorcock's novels, full of different themes and relationships, in which he makes increasingly explicit his vision of the multiverse. It is the culmination of the first two books in the series, Blood and Fabulous Harbors. It raises all kinds of philosophical questions about the nature of identity and our ideas about time. It has a love story and several autobiographical elements and, unlike a previous reviewer, I found this one of the best and most original books Mr Moorcock has yet written. The ending certainly makes reference to Milton, but it seems to be an argument with Milton, rather as Gloriana was an argument with Spencer. Moorcock's great talent, since he began with Elric and The Sundered Worlds, is to inhabit the genre itself and bust it open from the inside out. He doesn't borrow from Milton -- he sets up a dialogue with him! Everything he does, including the Bastable and Pyat novels, is an intervention in an existing genre, stereotype or cultural assumption. War Amongst The Angels is one of the richest and most visually mind-blowing books Moorcock, who has already established his own bench-marks, has ever given us. It is nothing less than a masterpiece.