However Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time, is in danger of taking reality too seriously, and grows tired of his pleasures. A comedy, a satire, a love story, a retelling of Adam and Eve, and tribute to the fin de siecle of Wilde and Huysmans (and also Wells and Dunsany) An uptight Victorian women in a post-human(and post-morality) future(resembling a description of a Bosch painting much of the time) and her tumultuous courting by Jherek Carnelian through time and past the end of the world.

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.Jherek's childhood and adolescence subsequently provided a great deal of novelty and interest for the Iron Orchid and her clique, and left Jherek with a notable childlike freshness and creativity, compared to the majority of his contemporaries.

So when love mysteriously blooms between Mrs Amelia Underwood, transported unwillingly from the nineteenth century, and Carnelian, only one question matters. First off, I will refrain from making jokes like "I'm always in the mood for Moorcock" or "Ladies demand Moorcock. Several scenes later Jherek and the Iron Orchid fly in his air ship formed in the shape of a 19th century locomotive (Jherek has a particular fascination with object from that bygone era) to attend a party hosted by the Duke of Queens.The machine appears to malfunction; instead of delivering them to the End of Time, it maroons them in what appears to be the Lower Devonian period. Instead of having actual feelings or preferences they simply mimic one they find interesting by inspecting the past of the human race. The Dancers at the End of Time is the name of Michael Moorcock’s trilogy and also the name of this omnibus volume being reviewed. The Duke of Queens intends the centerpiece of this entertainment to be an alien, Yusharisp, who tries to warn them that the universe will soon end; the people merely find this boring, and the entertainment falls flat. Then, up in the sky - it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's the Duke of Queens in his unique air car the shape of a huge hen.

They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. It occurs to him that falling in love may be cool, and sets off to pursue an involuntary time traveling lady from 1896, Mrs.Takes place in the far distant future, travels back to Victorian times, then Paleozoic and then back to the future.

Amelia is now more tolerant towards the people of the End of Time, though still occasionally revolted by their lack of morals.This book contained the usual concepts and bizarre ideas and really got in my head, for example, the idea that time is a fixed, limited event so if you travel far enough into the future you end up at the beginning of time!