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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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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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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When Jherek Carnelian makes love to his Mother, called Iron Orchid, on a beach of crushed bone, debating the meaning of the word 'virtuous', with the sea suddenly turning a deep pink, you know, you just KNOW that you're in for something truly different. With 600 pages still to come it screams at you "This saga's gonna take you where you've never been before!".
So here we are at the end of time, where anything is made possible; where landscapes, buildings and people themselves, can change immediately by request, and where anything goes with whoever you want.
Into this crazy, quaint, immoral World, stumbles Mrs Amelia Underwood, a prim and proper, 'virtuous' lady from 19th century England.
And as surely as love blossoms between this unlikely twosome, Amelia and Jherek, their battle of morals continues unabated amongst the comings and goings of time-travel, bumping into H G Wells, and the brilliant, but farcical one-upmanship between the dwellers at the end of time.
Frankly, I couldn't put the book down!
And when I did, couldn't wait to return to this incredibly fascinating World that Moorcock unfolds.
A feast to the senses, with tongue-in-cheek debates to jolly it along, I must count this as one of the most unique experiences I've ever encountered between the pages.
So here we are at the end of time, where anything is made possible; where landscapes, buildings and people themselves, can change immediately by request, and where anything goes with whoever you want.
Into this crazy, quaint, immoral World, stumbles Mrs Amelia Underwood, a prim and proper, 'virtuous' lady from 19th century England.
And as surely as love blossoms between this unlikely twosome, Amelia and Jherek, their battle of morals continues unabated amongst the comings and goings of time-travel, bumping into H G Wells, and the brilliant, but farcical one-upmanship between the dwellers at the end of time.
Frankly, I couldn't put the book down!
And when I did, couldn't wait to return to this incredibly fascinating World that Moorcock unfolds.
A feast to the senses, with tongue-in-cheek debates to jolly it along, I must count this as one of the most unique experiences I've ever encountered between the pages.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read this trilogy half my life ago and it has been my favourite story ever since. While it could be described in part as science-fiction, its scope helps it transcend such tags. In fact, every sci-fi book you've read could well have taken place in the same world, thousands of years before the main events of this tale take place.
Set, obviously, at the very end of time, the world's tiny population benefits from the work of past civilizations. They have no idea how it works, but they can simply channel a great power that enables them to create whatever they like - houses, clothes, landscapes, creatures - and destroy them just as easily. This has resulted in nothing more than an endless succession of fads and fashions as people while away their endless, conscience-free days partying and gossiping, punctuated by the occasional arrival of time- and space-travellers.
When Jherek Carnelian falls in love with an accidental visitor from Victorian England, a whole new series of ancient fashions sweeps the end of time while he attempts to make sense of this unusual emotion and track down his confused sweetheart.
The wondrous setting of the end of time and its ever-changing inhabitants and visitors would be entertaining enough, but the story is also deepened not only by the cross-century adventures and misunderstandings but also by the discovery of what it means to exist at the very end of time. In addition, those who have read some of Moorcock's other tales will find familiar time-travelling faces popping up on their way to or from other tales, which adds to the sense of a gloriously rounded and believable universe.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
These three books are probably among the finest michael moorcock ever wrote, full of humour, they examine morals and how ludicrous they can be, there are no swords and it's unlike moorcock's other settings, a prudish victorian era lady sent to a future time where the inhabitants have the the power to do or create anything and have a damn fine time of it!! however as usual moorcock can write a short piece of work free of waffle and without the need for sequel upon sequel or the dreaded prequel!! (God that's rare nowadays!!)It's a good place to start with regard to his work and it is a very original piece of writing.
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Tedious and rambling
This really is Moorcock at his worst, rambling, lacking focus, an exercise in unalloyed tedium which takes me back to the awful Elric series which I read in the early 70's. Read more
Published 4 days ago by F. M. Muse
A masterpiece
This was my first foray into the world of Moorcock, and what a place to start; his vision of the End of Time is vividly imagined and brilliantly written. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Alice
Trip-trip-trippy!
A cool story about what happens to humanity when we have discovered everything, done everything, and live lives of ultimate convenience. Read more
Published 19 months ago by HeecheeRendezvous
Drivel
Is this a comedy? I found one amusing line in it.
True, it wasn't in the story itself, but in the two-page author's preface. Read more
True, it wasn't in the story itself, but in the two-page author's preface. Read more
Published 23 months ago by mad_mushroom
Ah ringing the changes
The world was never the same whenever I read Moorcock back in the halcyon hippy daze of the early seventies. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2007 by K. C. Simm
A great work of literature by Michael Moorcock!
I've always had a problem trying to decide whether Michael Moorcock was a good writer or not. I thought he told a good story, but as an author I couldn't figure if he was "just" a... Read more
Published on 24 July 2006 by S. J. Newton
Of Its Time, & Still a Classic
Fully deserving of its place in the masterworks series and in numerous "100 best" lists of SF, this collection of three volumes published in the mid-seventies shows Michael... Read more
Published on 29 Feb 2004 by J. L. Probert
Not as amusing as it thinks, but still brilliant
Going by the blurb one would think that this is a laugh a minute comedy in the vein of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – while its nowhere near as amusing it does share an... Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2003 by Jane Aland
Moorcock's best
I must admit to not being a huge fan of Michael Moorcock. Nervertheless, having said that, I still seem to have read an awful lot of books by him. Read more
Published on 31 May 2003 by "jrfrancis"
Beautiful, funny, pointed
I loved this when it first appeared. It was the funniest sci fi I had ever read. Since then I've read the likes of Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Firbank and some of the fin-de-siecle... Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2003
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