Some sf devices figure in Hotel de Dream (1976), whose obsessively nostalgic residents begin to find themselves in each other's dreams: the nostalgia they share -- for a cleansed and triumphant royal Britain, the kind of land Edwardians might have anticipated, but which WWI destroyed any chance of -- somewhat resembles in detail and ironical import the Edwardian futures promulgated by Michael Moorcock in his Jerry Cornelius and Oswald Bastable series and elsewhere.

John Clute / Encyclopedia of SF