Dancers at the End of Time (Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock)

Member Name: zusy

Product:	Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
Date:	09/06/00 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: wonderfully imaginative, hillariously funny

Disadvantages: none

I absolutely adore the characters in these books. I'd never read anything of Moorcock's before stumbling across this set in a jumble sale (don't you just live for that feeling when you accidentally discover a book that grips you?)

It took me a little while to get pulled into the story, the world it describes is so weird, but once I did I holed myself up for days and finished the three books off like consuming a feast. What are they about? Well, it's set far in the future when people have nothing better to worry about than amusing themselves by inventing new landscapes or changing their bodies to suit their every whim. They listen to the whispers of the dying cities that provide clues as to how people lived in the past, and collect stray time travellers so they can keep them in zoos. One day their perfect world is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a Victorian lady (Mrs Amelia Underwood) who decides she will not be kept in a zoo, thank-you-very-much, and struggles against falling in love with her besotted, heart-breakingly sweet captor (Jherek Carnelian).

I have just talked myself into re-re-re-re-reading the trilogy... heh.

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