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The Dancers at the End of Time
Paperback Published on: 08/05/2003
Price: £14.99
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Michael Moorcock's 5 Star homage (not the 1 star I accidentally gave and can't change) to the decadent authors of the fin-de-siècle
I first read this a few decades ago when I was about 19 or 20 and it blew my mind. I'm not entirely convinced I understood everything but it certainly ma... READ MORE
Synopsis
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 siècle decadents, satire at its sharpest and most colourful.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- ISBN: 9780575074767
- Number of pages: 672
- Dimensions: 197 x 133 x 31 mm
- Weight: 452g
- Languages: English