- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (2 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752806491
- ISBN-13: 978-0752806495
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 855,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Milleniums, publishing of this fantasy brought solid repeat sales and delighted reviews, as well as a new generation of readers. Now we are in the midst of publishing the series, one omnibus every two months, in excellent value for money paperbacks.
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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Treading water between epics, Michael Moorcock here offers us a collection of five short (ish) stories, all taking place within the decadent setting he first introduced to us in "The Dancers at the End of Time" cycle. These stories all span the same time period as the above collection, and take place during Jherek Carnelian and Amelia Underwood's voyages away from the end of time. Consequently neither of them feature in any of the narratives, apart from the odd line of dialogue referring to them. This collection has been described as Woodhouse crossed with Brecht. Certainly there is a lightness of touch here but unfortunately the writing style starts to feel a little laboured by the time you get to the fourth, and longest, segment. Keep going, though - the last story, Elric at the End of Time, is very funny, reveals several interesting new facts about the multiverse, and serves to confirm this collection's place in the 'Eternal Champion' cycle.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I prefer these short stories to the novels. They are just as funny but a bit sharper. Dancers at the End of Time is, in the end, just another play on the old Adam and Eve theme, while these are witty, pithy, sardonic. Pale Roses is probably the best of them all and worth getting the book for. The characters who intrigued you in Dancers at the End of Time are shown in greater sharpness and depth. The Elric parody -- one of several parodies Moorcock has done of his own fantasy -- is hilarious.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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By the time Moorcock came to write the last novel in this sequence (The Resurrection of Miss Mavis Ming in its original title, here Consuming Passion) he was tiring of his idea. The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy, the first three novellas in this collectrion and Elric at the End of Time were all written before Consuming Passion and they have a liveliness Miss Ming's love story lacks. It is almost as if Moorcock has tried to write a modernist novel of character in a Doctor Who landscape. Laboured is not often a word you find yourself using to describe MM, but in comparison to the delightful final flowering of his fin-de-univers stories, the longest story in this book can be described thus. However, the other stories are so very good I'm giving the book full marks anyway. Superior reading and an inspiration to Adams, Pratchett and all the other fantasy humorists who followed Moorcock in his delight for the paradoxical and highly unlikely.
As often with Moorcock -- the first and the best.
As often with Moorcock -- the first and the best.
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