Love blossoms between Jharek Carnelian and Mrs Amelia Underwood, beautifully decadant, incredibly alien and absurdly hilarious. Many of you will recognize Michael Moorcock from his Eternal Champion series, most notably the Elric novels. Dressed in various shades of light brown, the Iron Orchid and her son sat upon a cream-coloured beach of crushed bone.

The police catch up with the fleeing couple, but are interrupted in their attempted arrest by the appearance of the Lat, the Iron Orchid and a number of other residents of the End of Time. Travel and Paradox - Ultimately, The Hollow Lands makes for a fast-paced adventure back and forth through time. Chronicling the transformation of Miss Mavis Ming and the parts played by Doctor Volospion, his fellow residents at the End of Time, and Mr Emmanuel Bloom, also known as The Fireclown. The novel begins with a discussion between Jherek Carnelian and his mother, the Iron Orchid, about the meaning of the word virtuous.By the way, pass the apricot jam as its orange-golden hue matches the color of my antique pendant and I so love spreading lusciousness on my crisp croissant. The Dancers at the End of Time is an unalloyed delight, if you are feeling bored or down and need some crazy fun sci-fi (sci-fantasy really) to pick you up. Jherek is sentenced to death, as the case against him is unequivocal, but he cannot understand why all the people around him are so upset; inhabitants of the End of Time are immortal, and for them death is merely transitory.

However Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time, is in danger of taking reality too seriously, and grows tired of his pleasures. It occurs to him that falling in love may be cool, and sets off to pursue an involuntary time traveling lady from 1896, Mrs.Amelia and Jherek's marooning in the Devonian was not part of the plan; they did not, in fact, travel back in time, but too far into the future, past the end of the world in which they were currently residing. I found it amusing, but cannot imagine that more of it has broken enough new ground to be worth further effort. He is the father of Jherek by the Iron Orchid, and is later shown to be manipulating various events that occur in the series. Elric at the End of Time" is one of two Elric short stories included in the eponymous collection, Elric at the End of Time. 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.

Though he is neither human nor Christian, he is still one of God's creatures and has a right to his liberty! ABOUT THIS BOOK; The trilogy from Michael Moorcock: The Hollow lands; An alien heat: The end of all songs.

Werther de Goethe is named for the main character of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and for Goethe himself, and is likewise angst ridden. The Dancers at the End of Time is the name of Michael Moorcock’s trilogy and also the name of this omnibus volume being reviewed. During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. In this very far future—so far nobody bothers to number the years anymore—technology has advanced to a level literally indistinguishable from magic (thereby validating Clarke’s famous third law*).