A world of the remote future. The society is very rich, very decadent and the population is small.
The story centres on the schemes and conflict of a group of bizarre men and women – The Duke of Queens, Lord Jagged of Canaria, the bitter giant Mongrove, My Lady Charlotina of Below-the-Lake, Mistress Christia, the everlasting concubine, and the Iron Orchid, mother of the central character,
When Jherek meets Mrs Amelia Underwood, a lady time-traveller from 1896, he determines to possess her and finds himself being plunged backwards in time to Victorian London…
An Alien Heat is set in a world of crazy, jewelled cities with ripe, rotting technologies. It is an example of the mighty imagination of Michael Moorcock at its most magnificent.
