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The Dancers At The End Of Time (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 10) Paperback – October 30, 2000
- Print length530 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWhite Wolf Publishing
- Publication dateOctober 30, 2000
- Dimensions5.9 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches
- ISBN-101565049942
- ISBN-13978-1565049949
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- Publisher : White Wolf Publishing (October 30, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 530 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1565049942
- ISBN-13 : 978-1565049949
- Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,968,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #229,817 in Fantasy (Books)
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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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This series of books is set in a future well beyond our own time. For Jherek Carnelian and the rest of his kind, our world is so far in the past (hundreds of thousands of millenia in the past) that history and Hollywood, fiction and fact have blurred together. Moorcock takes us so far into the future that "sand" on a beach is actually crushed bone, and characters behave in ways which would shock even the most open-minded people of our own society.
In Jherek Carnelian's society it is impossible for anyone to feel shock. No one is encumbered with the conventions and standards which we in our own time feel obliged to live by. In the future life is one long game without rules, a fairground in which to indulge. Death is practically an obsolete notion. Sounds like heaven on Earth, doesn't it? As space and time are no longer barriers, it wouldn't surprise me if another time traveller like Karl Glogauer had gone into the past and "implanted" the concept of heaven - the misinterpreted promise that all the misery and suffering, the turmoil and deprivation, would eventually be rewarded with everlasting life and blissful harmony. All in exchange for clean living and a lot of faith. This would have been a cruel trick for a time traveller to play, even if it wasn't intentional.
In the early 20th century Marcel Duchamp once declared that anyone can be an artist. In Jherek's time everyone is an artist, able to create their own environments to whatever specifications they desire, alter their bodily appearance whenever the whim takes them, and build menageries filled with specimans culled from anywhere and anywhen.
Jherek has a fondness for anything associated with his favourite period the 19th century. When it comes to nostalgia past eras are best loved by those who never experienced them. It's like someone obsessed with Robin Hood holding a romantic view of the Middle Ages. One object of beauty coveted by Jherek is the elegant Mrs Amelia Underwood. Much of Moorcock's story concerns Jherek's attempts to win the heart of Amelia Underwood in a series of well-intentioned gestures and temporal wanderings. I don't want to say too much more than that, but rest assured, it's an eventful ride. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of what the characters look like as they keep changing their appearance, but just hang in there. When Jherek pursues Amelia in 1896 he's like the proverbial fish out of water. You won't be disappointed.
6/28/16 Post BreakfastfastVote
"The Dancers At the End of Time" is quite possibly the wittiest and most amusing time travel scenario I have ever encountered. Moorcock wrote this exciting little trilogy (originally published as several smaller hardcover volumes) with a wit rarely encountered in the often overly-serious sci-fa genres. His satire drips with the delightful flavor of the turn of the century fin-de-siecle, delightful parodies of H.G. Wells, and a delicate, romantic heart that matches the author's humor. I laughed at Jerekh's bumbling attempts at romance. I cried at the almost tragic occurences near the end of the novel, and I cheered at the resolution. Having just finished reading Mary Doria Russell's depressing "The Sparrow" (although also an excellent book), I needed something a bit more uplifting. This did the trick.
If you're looking for a good intelligent satire, you can do no wrong by taking a look at this classic Moorcock masterpiece.
As an alloagory? This is the story of adam and eve. Jerek is Adam living in a world were he is, by church standards, shockingly immoral, but, also, as innocent as a child. He does not even undersand a distinction between right and wrong. He is also the only live birth ( as opposed to created creature in a reverlas of scripture) being in the world. He has absolute power and the ability to make any of his whims come true, including absolute creation and absolute mastery over death. His lover's include his mother and some guy who might be his father, and anyone else he chooses. What difference does it make when you are all powerful and there are no permanent consequences to your acts? Did I mention that this story is set so far in the furutre that man is all powerfull and his mastery over consequences has destoryed any concern about them?
In to this Edan of innocence comes a victorian woman who's is shocked (shocked, I tell you) by the behavior of Jerek and the other dwellers at the end of time. Jerek falls in love. Soon you will have to decide if morals, even if good, are merely an intruison in an idylic place, if evil can exist without intention, if god can exist without evil ( afterall, what good is he if he isnt needed), and if the infection of morals into an immoral world isn't the serpant in paridice.