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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 siecle decadents, satire at its sharpest and most colourful.
- Sales Rank: #660365 in Books
- Published on: 2003-05-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.24" h x 1.30" w x 7.87" l, .97 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 672 pages
About the Author
Michael Moorcock (1939-) Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award; in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame; and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix; and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric. He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A fantastic journey
By brxbrxx
This series is awesome. It largely takes place millions of years in the future, on the verge of the end of the universe. Humanity has progressed into a bunch of carefree socialites supported by technology granting them godlike powers.
They spend their days oblivious to negative emotions, playing and hosting incredible parties with lavish themes.
I think the best part of the End of Time series is the exploration of innocence. The inhabitants of the end of the universe are not familiar with adversity, pain, or hardship. They are afforded all the time and resources in the world to devote to their creative endeavors. They are kind (though a little thick with regards to the feelings of those unfamiliar with their world) and eager to please. They have never been bothered with bullying, with war, disease, or even the impossible.
Thus Michael Moorcock lets us see the works of omnipotent beings immune to the darkness in us humans.
There is far more to the series than that of course, as we are taken across time to Victorian England (or an English era named after some other queen, I don't remember), where we are allowed to contrast the utopia of the future to the cumbersome rituals of the past.
Really worth reading, even if the 3 part book is a little unwieldy. You may want to consider buying all three separately (or just the first, to see if you like it).
Lastly, the only thing that comes to mind in criticism, is the timeline. I would think that time would end in billions, rather than millions, of years. But that's honestly so damn trivial it isn't worth mentioning.
A superb read. You won't regret it. It's really super.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
All Tomorrows Parties at the End of Time
By Mark B.
In "The Dancers at the End of Time", Michael Moorcock introduces the reader to a Earth which has survived to the very edge of cosmic twilight through the determined harnessing of colossal energies millennia ago. Paradoxically, the inheritors of these mighty powers are utterly driven by something we might choose to call "fashion". These distinctive beings engage in an endless search for diversion, play and even - "art" performed upon the canvas of a world where all other pursuits have lost much of their meaning. The varied descendants of humanity include the endearing Jherek Carnelian who dares even social ostracism from his peers in the pursuit to discover what love is. A certain time-displaced Mrs. Amelia Underwood becomes the source of Jherek's affections -though the puzzling thing called "virtue" appears to be a nearly unfathomable obstacle. Supporting players include; the enigmatic Lord Jagged who has an enduring interest in Jherek, and one of the last true mothers in existence -the exquisite Iron Orchid, mother of Jherek Carnelian.
The reader encounters a multitude of other rare and nearly alien, human-descended creatures as they entertain their friends, lovers, and rivals in a riot of artistic excess. Even the looming threat of utter extinction and annihilation from the exhaustion of Time itself causes hardly a ripple in the unending party at the end of all things. Alien encounters, poetic love affairs, emancipation of the young, duels to the death, historical recreations - and collisions in time are all presented deftly in the course of the series by it's creator, Michael Moocock.
This reader has enjoyed "The Dancers at the End of Time's" vision of a fantastical future. Fans of Michael Moorcock's works will be pleased to learn that a new Elric novel immanently appears titled "Elric in the Dream Realms".
~ Mark B.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Moorcock's Masterpiece
By C. E. Wilson
In his The Dancers at the End of Time series, of which this omnibus volume presents the central trilogy of novels, Michael Moorcock— who has possibly the broadest range of works in science-fiction, swords and sorcery, historical fiction, or speculative fantasy of any contemporary writer—brings all of his considerable knowledge and talent to bear on a story line that quite literally spans the history of life in the Universe, or as Moorcock's lexicography would have it, the Multiverse. The base setting for the action of the interlinked novels is The End of Time, a version of Earth so far in the future that the remaining remnant of the human race has, by virtue of their access to the accumulated reality-altering technology of all preceding eras, "at last ceased to take itself seriously." It depicts in other words a society steeped to the brim with aesthetic decadence and imbued with the power to bring any conceivable fantasy to life. Moorcock's genius manifests itself in populating this playground of ultimate decadents with a richly varied cast of characters who allow him to explore, in both satirical and humanistic terms, what sort of society humans might develop in an environment that allows—and can manifest—absolute freedom. As his two focal characters he gives us Jherek Carnelian, the last human born of natural means, and Mrs. Amelia Underwood, a reluctant and involuntary time-traveler from the Bromley district of London and a very prim and proper contemporary of H.G. Wells. The story is essentially a masterfully woven pastiche of Victorian love story and comedy of manners, beset with all of the attendant difficulties that afflict lovers in such stories—but what raises Moorcock's opus to the realm of masterpiece is his placement of the main action of the story in a realm that is physically and morally the antithesis of Victorian ideals of duty, truth, honesty, work, and Christian faith—qualities which at the End of Time are so foreign and antiquated as to be incomprehensible to its inhabitants, who exist in a paradoxically Eden-like innocence of and freedom from malice, avarice, or jealousy, unless they are employing some shallow mimicry of those qualities to stage one of their performance art-like amusements. What drives the story, and makes it well worth pursuing through the 664 pages offered here, is the very genuine love story that develops between Jherek, the ultimate decadent and aesthete, and Mrs. Underwood, the ultimate guardian of Victorian propriety. Touching and well-wrought as Jherek's transformation from aesthetic poseur to love-stricken but courageous young man and Mrs. Underwood's transformation from emotionally and morally constricted avatar of Victorian propriety to adventurous and morally sympathetic woman may be, however, it is the cast of characters and events that surround them that makes this a book worth reading. Morcock has peopled the end of time with a cornucopia of brilliantly conceived and animated secondary characters, each brilliantly named and festooned with craftily wrought character traits and physical embellishments, as well as enough amusing subplots to make each of the three installments of the trilogy a rococo, art noveau confection of nearly infinitely detailed artifice.
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