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The Dancers at the End of Time (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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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. And it is here where Jherek spots the lady, a time-traveler from that very same 19th century, that will change his life.

The time travellers start vanishing, and Jackson, who finally reveals himself to be Lord Jagged (also Judge Jagger), takes Jherek and Mrs Underwood to a time machine that will take them to the End of Time.The Dancers At The End Of Time is a trilogy that explores time travel and morality in the pseudo-sexual psychedelic way that only Moorcock can pull off. Since I'm a huge fan of Decadent classics, Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans comes immediately to mind, and also New Wave SF, I found every page of this singular Michael Moorcock positively scrumptious - so much so, I even created a special black and yellow bookmark from a Victor Vasarely print to match the cover of the SF Masterworks edition. Then, up in the sky - it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's the Duke of Queens in his unique air car the shape of a huge hen. In-jokes abound - the Amelia Underwood isn't the poor woman who married George Gissing, and can Lord Jagged of Canaria really be Oscar Wilde (or is he just Mick Jagger or Mr Jaggers from Great Expectations? Chaos ensues as the police and the Lat start fighting, and the fabric of time itself begins disintegrating.

Jherek is hanged, only to wake up among his friends at the End of Time, who tell him that to them, he has only been gone for a second.When she realises her mistake, she agrees to send him back to 1896; her ability to recycle time means that she can function as a time machine. Jherek is almost unique among the natives of The End of Time, in that he was born, rather than created. Anybody familiar with, say, Amsterdam or Paris or New York, knows so very much of the vibrancy and pulse of the city comes from the sheer number of people out on the streets. The first volume of the original trilogy, 'An Alien Heat', is an utter delight - witty, subversive, wildly imaginative and very well informed about the literature and culture of fin de siècle. White Stars: after discovering that he had inadvertently destroyed one of Lord Shark the Unknown's experiments with lichen, the Duke of Queens offers to duel with him to rid himself of his guilt.

Kooky Air Car - All the familiar faces from An Alien Heat gather about Jherek and the Iron Orchid, My Lady Clarlotina, Werther de Goethe, Lord Jagged among their number. However, there is something unique about Jherek - unlike everyone else, including the Iron Orchid, all of whom came into this world as adults, as remarkable, odd and farfetched as it might seem, Jherek was actually born.The humour comes from Jherek’s complete ignorance of Victorian culture, money, crime, imprisonment etc. 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.

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