{"product_id":"somnium-revised-and-expanded-edition-isbn-9781907222511","title":"Somnium, revised and expanded edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the early years of the twenty-first century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centered on the Greek Moon goddess Selene, \u003ci\u003eSomnium\u003c\/i\u003e is an intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, it combines medieval, Elizabethan, Gothic, and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its delirious and heartbroken narrative, \u003ci\u003eSomnium\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary odyssey through love, loss, and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Moore's afterword details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of \u003ci\u003eSomnium\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new expanded paperback edition includes \u003ci\u003eSketches of Shooter's Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, a topographical communiqué from the South London hinterlands that formed the liminal setting for Moore's novel. Originally self-published by the author and distributed only to a handful of friends, this curious travelogue is made available to readers here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A masterpiece.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alan Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A unique work by a unique genius. Moore has an understanding of the occult peculiar to a very few and it always gives me the shivers; the shivers which say 'authenticity.' Get this book while you're part of the minority who know about it.”—Michael Moorcock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eGloriana.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Iain Sinclair\u003c\/p\u003eUntil his death in 2014, Steve Moore wrote comic books, novels and nonfiction, including his study of the I-Ching, \u003ci\u003eThe Trigrams of Han\u003c\/i\u003e, his critically acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eSomnium,\u003c\/i\u003e and the posthumous collection of short fantasy stories, \u003ci\u003eTales of Telguuth\u003c\/i\u003e. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with \u003ci\u003eFortean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFortean Times\u003c\/i\u003e, to which he was a frequent contributor from their inception.","brand":"Strange Attractor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302261674213,"sku":"NP9781907222511","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781907222511.jpg?v=1767736944","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/somnium-revised-and-expanded-edition-isbn-9781907222511","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}