The Dancers at the End of Time (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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Time travel is possible, and throughout the series various points in time are visited and revisited. Is his love true, or is it just another attempt to stave off the boredom that ultimate power and the End of Time bring? They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In particular, his fascination with the past has made him a recognised expert in the field – the nearest thing The End of Time has to a historian. Recorded across three of the hottest days in summer, direct onto 1" tape and with all the rich, live analogue sound and the hallowed magnificence that church acoustics can bring, The Dancers at the Edge of Time features the classic Foat group with guesting local musicians and friends, and celebrates the summertime and beach ambience of living on the island.

She and Jherek resume the life they led in An Alien Heat, which is interrupted by the sudden arrival of a shell shocked, crazed Mr Underwood, Inspector Springer and a dozen policemen, and the Lat. Thus ensues a comedy of manners, morals and philosophical leanings reminiscent of the social changes that rocked England in the late nineteenth-century. Last year, during the long, hot summer of 2014, a couple of tons of vintage studio gear were bundled into an ancient church on the charming and picturesque village of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Jherek's entire existence is later revealed to be part of a complicated scheme of Lord Jagged's to survive the End of Time by selectively breeding a race of humans whose DNA renders them immune to the tendency for time to heal itself by rejecting time travellers who journey to the past, and flinging them forward to their point of origin, or beyond.I have to admit that I am not the biggest fan of those classic authors since I read them begrudgingly in highschool, and I can't say that I very much loved them but I do appreciate what they did. This is largely due to the unexpected, bizarre (and often instantaneous) changes which his hosts make to the landscape. First off, I will refrain from making jokes like "I'm always in the mood for Moorcock" or "Ladies demand Moorcock. In this series Moorcock flexes his incredible imagination and takes that decadant period and applies it to a Dying Earth whose inhabitants are totally devoid of all basic moral ideas.

Heady stuff indeed, but with a better than average plot I would suggest it to hardcore SF readers only. Sometimes, after you've just finished killing a man with a horse shoe because you were out of bullets for instance, you need to read something light and funny to make you forget about all the carnage you've wrought. The settings and charicatures are also some of his most unique: a blend of scientific romance Victoriana and fin du siecle French symbolism and art nouveau, with a little Shakespearean flare added for show. The original trilogy ( An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End of All Songs) was published between 1972 and 1976. And Jherek is such an innocent, a most likable handsome gent in his top hat, cape, dashing black suit and boots.

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.