Enter a decaying far, far future society, a time when anything and everything is possible, where words like ¿conscience¿ and ¿morality¿ are meaningless, and where heartfelt love blossoms mysteriously between Mrs Amelia Underwood, an unwilling time traveller, and Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. The Dancers at the End of Time, containing the novels An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands and The End of All Songs, is a brilliant homage to the 1890s of Wilde, Beardsley and the fin de siècle decadents, satire at its sharpest and most colourful.
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An omnibus volume containing satire at its sharpest and most colourful by one of the genre's best-loved writers
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Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.
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The Finest of the Eternal Champion Series
11 May 2000
By KAZ Vorpal, aka Michael Karl
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In these three books, Michael Moorcock reaches farther and explores more ideas and concepts than most other authors - even SF/F authors, in their entire career.
The characters will constantly shock you, at first, but the "reality" of their situation soon becomes clear, and fascinating.
And if you ever wished to see "character development" made interesting, the experiences and responses of Jherek Cornelian in this epic is the Stairway to Heaven of personal growth and realization.
Did you know that the author is one of the actual creators of "Cyberpunk"? It was his magazine, New Worlds, from which the founders of Cyberpunk sprang, at the behest of the quest for an expansion of the old mythic archetype. It is a similar fusion of myth and the modern technical world which made The Matrix so captivating.
In this novel, though, he steps beyond even those boundaries. Technology is so transcendant that it no longer is even part of one's conscious world. Innocence and decadence become both the same and yet nothing at all.
All in all, "You gotta see it to believe it". An easy read, but a captivating one.
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The Decadent Apocalypse
3 Feb 2000
By Eva-Lise Carlstrom
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I have the original paperback trilogy, which is here presented as one book. You need not have read Moorcock's other works to enjoy this, and it doesn't have the dark and brooding atmosphere of some of his Eternal Champion stuff (though a few of the individual characters do enjoy that sort of thing). Since the playful and jaded people at the End of Time have the power to do anything they want, with no danger (if they happen to die, they can always resurrect, for instance), there are no logical limits or dangers requiring the development of taboos. They don't even have a clear concept of what is pleasant and what is not; their most damning description for an experience is "dull". The most interesting parts of the books, IMHO, deal with the violently clashing sensibilities of the End of Time people and time-and-space travellers who happen upon them, such as Mrs. Amelia Underwood of Victorian England. That and the preposterous visual imagery and terrible historical malapropisms. I find these books hysterically funny. If you're familiar with Moorcock's Elric books, read the End of Time trilogy...and then read Elric at the End of Time, if you can find it. Moorcock mocking himself is truly at his peak.
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Intense, Innocent, and Furious. Moorcock at his best.
7 Feb 1999
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I have been a fan of Michael Moorcock since Tales of the White Wolf came out. He surpasses the morbidity of the Elric stories (which I love) by coming out with this book. This book is of the innocenc of the future age and the complications of falling in love. Jharek Carnelian is an innocent, never has he dealt with any true feeling save art fo art's sake. Now, with the sight of Amelia Underwood, he is thoroughly entranced. This book is awesome.
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