Michael Moorcock in general

The eternal champion (278 words)
by belgarath_02 - written on 08/07/00, updated on 12/07/00 (Useful, 45 readings)
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This review is not about any one book by Michael Moorcock, but about all of his works of fiction. If you have ever read any of this author's works, you will have some idea what I am talking about. If you haven't, well, read on. All of Moorcock's works share a common theme, although this is not always evident. This theme is ' The Eternal Champion'. All of Moorcock's heroes are actually incarnations of a single persona or entity, "The Eternal Champion", although many of these heroes know anything of any of their other incarnations. Some remember snippets of other lives, as if dreams, barely remembered yet vaguely familiar. Only one ...

Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock

Moorcock's masterpiece (493 words)
by elllie - written on 12/09/03, updated on 12/09/03 (Very useful, 56 readings)
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Dancers at the end of time is a remarkable trilogy, and in my opinion, a masterpiece. Moorcock creates a picture of a future society, at the end of time itself: where technology has finally removed the threat of death. The earth?s inhabitants can create sky-scrappers or mountains in seconds, change their appearance to anything that they desire ? and can be anyone or anything that they want. Morals have been long-forgotten and to ?the dancers at the end of time? pleasure is everything. This hedonistic utopia is all that Jherek Carnelian - the protagonist - has ever known. However, this all changes with an arrival from the past: a Mrs Amelia Underwood. She finds ...