The Hollow Lands
by Michael Moorcock
The End of Time (2), The Dancers at the End of Time (02), The Eternal Champion (The End of Time book 2)
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At the world's end, all love is timeless, and all age-old disputes irrelevant. Jherek Carnelian, however, is in danger of taking reality too seriously, and grows tired of his pleasures. Perhaps a hunt for aliens could lift his spirits? Or better yet, a journey through time? Ah, yes The past So complicated and strange - especially with its scarcity of time machines for a return trip But regardless of the dangers, the past does hold one irresistible lure: Mrs Amelia Underwood, for whom the show more Hero at the End of Time risks all. show lessTags
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The Hollow Lands is the second in the Jherek Carnelian series, in which Jherek waits for Mrs. Amelia Underwood to return to his futures, finally gets tired of waiting, then a chance encounter provides him the means to return to London in 1896 and find her again. He manages to get her to come with him by planting a seed of doubt into the staid Mr. Underwood who all-too-quickly comes to believe that his wife has cuckolded him. Amelia and Jherek go on the lamb, attempting to dodge the police who believe that he's either a convicted murderer who's somehow come back from the dead after having been hanged, or a (*gasp*) foreign socialist.
Hilarity ensues. Eventually Amelia agrees to accompany Jherek back to the future, but their time machine show more goes a little wonky and appears to take them into the very distant past. One wonders if the machinations of Lord Jagged the Crafty are being played out here or if their time machine actually did just malfunction.
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Hilarity ensues. Eventually Amelia agrees to accompany Jherek back to the future, but their time machine show more goes a little wonky and appears to take them into the very distant past. One wonders if the machinations of Lord Jagged the Crafty are being played out here or if their time machine actually did just malfunction.
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Jherek and friends try to amuse themselves at the End of Time, and stumble upon a way back to 1896, and Jherek's lost love, Mrs. Amelia Underwood.
I had to read this second book before I was sure I liked the series. Jherek is so hapless you can't help but laugh, and this time the hash he makes out of the past is a little less tragic.
I had to read this second book before I was sure I liked the series. Jherek is so hapless you can't help but laugh, and this time the hash he makes out of the past is a little less tragic.
The second book of the "Dancers at the End of Time" trilogy, in which Jherek Carnelian travels back to Victorian England to rescue his beloved Mrs. Amelia Underwood. After narrowly escaping death, he begins a new campaign of seesawing through time and space in an effort to reunite himself with and prove his love to Mrs. Underwood. Continues Moorcock's amazing depiction of the hedonism and semi-benign decadence that results when mankind at last achieves absolute power over his environment.
I enjoyed this one more than the first volume in the series.
More of a story developed.
More of a story developed.
My edition, 1979, in boxed set with "An Alien Heat" and "The End of All Songs."
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Jherek, séducteur piégé à son propre jeu, connaît maintenant toutes les affres de l'état amoureux et doit trouver à tout prix un moyen de remonter dans le temps jusqu'à Londres en 1896. En fait, ce n'est que le début d'un chassé-croisé assez complexe à travers les trois tomes, qui le mènera non seulement à l'époque victorienne mais aussi à l'ère paléozoïque. Son chemin sera show more semé d'embûches : des paradoxes temporels qui risquent à tout moment de l'expulser du passé, des démêlés avec la justice anglaise qui met un inspecteur zélé de Scotland Yard avec toute une escouade de « bobbies » à ses trousses, des rencontres avec une bande d'extraterrestres maraudeurs, une gouvernante robotique passablement bornée et des scorpions géants. Plus un Mr. Underwood décidément pas commode. Puis il y a les manigances de Jagged, qui réapparaît sous divers noms tout au long de l'histoire. Le tout sur fond d'une mort annoncée de la Terre, voire de tout l'univers, pour très bientôt. show less
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Michael Moorcock, 1939 - Writer Michael Moorcock was born December 18, 1939 in Mitcham, Surrey, England. Moorcock was the editor of the juvenile magazine Tarzan Adventures from 1956-58, an editor and writer for the Sexton Blake Library and for comic strips and children's annuals from 1959-61, an editor and pamphleteer for Liberal Party in 1962, show more and became editor and publisher for the science fiction magazine New Worlds in 1964. He has worked as a singer-guitarist, has worked with the rock bands Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult and is a member of the rock band Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix. Moorcock's writing covers a wide range of science fiction and fantasy genres. "The Chronicles of Castle Brass" was a sword and sorcery novel, and "Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity" uses the character Karl Glogauer as a different person in different times. Karl participates in the political violence of the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, and a Nazi concentration camp. Moorcock also wrote books and stories that featured the character Jerry Cornelius, who had no consistent character or appearance. "The Condition of Muzak" completed the initial Jerry Cornelius tetralogy and won Guardian Literary Prize in 1977. "Byzantium Endures" and "The Laughter of Carthage" are two autobiographical novels of the Russian emigre Colonel Pyat and were the closest Moorcock came to conventional literary fiction. "Byzantium Endures" focuses on the first twenty years of Pyat's life and tells of his role in the Russian revolution. Pyat survives the revolution and the subsequent civil war by working first for one side and then another. "The Laughter of Carthage" covers Pyat's life from 1920-1924 telling of his escape from Communist Russia and his travels in Europe and America. It's a sweeping picture of the world during the 1920's because it takes the character from living in Constantinople to Hollywood. Moorcock returned to the New Wave style in "Blood: A Southern Fantasy" (1994) and combined mainstream fiction with fantasy in "The Brothel of Rosenstrasse," which is set in the imaginary city of Mirenburg. MoorCock won the 1967 Nebula Award for Behold the Man and the 1979 World Fantasy Award for his novel, Gloriana. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The End of Time
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The Dancers at the End of Time
3 works (02)
The Eternal Champion
63 works (The End of Time book 2)
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- Canonical title*
- Das Tiefenland
- Original title
- The Hollow Lands
- Original publication date
- 1974
- People/Characters
- Amelia Underwood; Jherek Carnelian; Iron Orchid; Captain Mubbers; Nurse; My Lady Charlotina (show all 19); Duke of Queens; Lord Jagged of Canaria; Li Pao; Mr. Harris; Mistress Christia, the everlasting concubine; Brannart Morphail; Bishop Castle; Maude Emily; Donna Isobella; Werther de Goethe; Sweet Orb Mace; Sergeant Sherwood; Munroe
- Important places
- London, England, UK; Bromley, Kent, England, UK
- Epigraph*
- Also laßt uns gehen – die Nacht steht vor der Tür;
Der Tag ist aufgebraucht, die Vögel sind verweht;
Und die Ernte ist eingebracht, die von den Göttern gesät,
Kummer und Tod; tiefe Dunkelheit brütet dafür
Bleiben Gelächter oder Tränen; alles, worauf wir gezählt,
War vergängliche Eitelkeit; und Tand, von uns erwählt,
Hat unsere Schar verderbt, ins Nichts entführt.
Also laßt uns gehen, ins Irgendwo, so fremd und kalt,
Zum Tiefenland, wo den Gerechten und Ungerechten
Der Arbeit Ende harrt, wo's Ruhe gibt, wenn wir sind alt,
Freiheit für alle von Liebe, Tod und and'ren Gebrechen.
Schnürt uns're verhärmten Händ'! Oh betet, daß die Erd' zermalmt
Uns're lebensmüden Herzen und nichts verbleibt als Staub in Bächen.
Ernest Dowson
Ein letztes Wort
1899 - Dedication*
- Für
Mike Harrison
und
Diane Boardman - First words*
- "Du hast eine neue Mode ins Leben gerufen, glaube ich, mein Augenlicht."
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Und nun, Mrs. Underwood", sagte er zufrieden, "was ist "Selbstverleugnung"?"
- Original language*
- Englisch
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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