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The Dancers At The End Of Time (Eternal Champion Series, Vol. 10) |
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Rating: Summary: Thanks. Comedy and fantasy use similar techniques. Review: This is one of my own favourite sequences and I greatly appreciate those comments of readers who enjoyed it. Comedy and fantasy are similar techniques (both depend upon exaggeration) and though I'm mostly identified with the gloomy, ambiguous Elric, I flourish best, in my own view, when I'm writing comedies or when there's a large element of comedy (as in Mother London). If you understand Jerry Cornelius as several forms of comedy (i.e. satire and farce) it tends to make those books much more enjoyable! I used to find at Hawkwind concerts that certain fans didn't like it when Nick and I did rock star parodies and stuff for fun on stage. It actually is possible to enjoy melodrama and farce at the same time! Have fun, pards! Michael Moorcock.
Rating: Summary: All aboard for the End of Time! Review: This volume, number ten in the Eternal Champion cycle, is a joy to read, having dated little in the couple of decades since the stories were written. (And anyway, what are a few decades when viewed from the sublime perspective of the End of Time?) The fantastical, hedonistic, anything-goes society at the very end of the Universe is depicted with all the imaginative gusto that is Michael Moorcock's hallmark. The romance between Jherek Carnelian (anti-hero Jerry Cornelius in a more sympathetic incarnation) and his staid Victorian Mrs Underwood, set against this backdrop, is all the more touching for the contrast. Familiar time-travellers Una Persson and Oswald Bastable turn up (I kept waiting for Mrs Cornelius to put in an appearance,) to prove that this world is but one aspect of many in the great hall of mirrors that is the Moorcockian Multiverse. To sum up, no swords in evidence but plenty of sorcery. Pure magic, in fact.
Rating: Summary: Moorcock is a giant Review: This work is a comedy, a tragedy, and a satire but most of all it is a powerfull allagory. Moorcock is one of the few, if not the only, writer of the modern era who can write a story that is compelling and will appeal to teens on the action/romance level, while appealing to adults ( probably older and wiser adults, not those who just make the grade) on another. 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.
Rating: Summary: Moorcock is a giant Review: This work is a comedy, a tragedy, and a satire but most of all it is a powerfull allagory. Moorcock is one of the few, if not the only, writer of the modern era who can write a story that is compelling and will appeal to teens on the action/romance level, while appealing to adults ( probably older and wiser adults, not those who just make the grade) on another. 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.
Rating: Summary: Funniest Book in the Multiverse Review: What characters! What lines! What descriptions! And I don't think I've laughed this much for a long time. Moorcock wrote these long before Hitchhiker and you can see the influence, also on Terry Pratchett. I read these around the same time as American Giant by Harvey Jacobs, which I recommend. Another very funny fantasist (although Giant isn't REALLY fantasy... ). It's so rare to get grown-up writing and grown-up humor together in sci-fi. Tom Holt can do it.David Garnett can do it. Harvey Jacobs can do it. Michael Moorcock can do it. Now I'm about to start on Legends from the End of Time. It promises to be just as good. Recommended to all adults who like their humor wild, sexy and witty.
Rating: Summary: Funniest Book in the Multiverse Review: What characters! What lines! What descriptions! And I don't think I've laughed this much for a long time. Moorcock wrote these long before Hitchhiker and you can see the influence, also on Terry Pratchett. I read these around the same time as American Giant by Harvey Jacobs, which I recommend. Another very funny fantasist (although Giant isn't REALLY fantasy... ). It's so rare to get grown-up writing and grown-up humor together in sci-fi. Tom Holt can do it.David Garnett can do it. Harvey Jacobs can do it. Michael Moorcock can do it. Now I'm about to start on Legends from the End of Time. It promises to be just as good. Recommended to all adults who like their humor wild, sexy and witty.
Rating: Summary: Not a typical fantasy book by Moorcock. Review: Wow, this book was great. What an incredible lot of characters. Of all the Moorcock fiction I have read I would say that this is the strangest.
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