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Originally Posted by llreader
Well, I will have to check out 'Dancers at the End of Time'. He certainly didn't do a bad job with "Veterans of the Psychic Wars". ;-)
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"Dancers" is just lovely. It's tied loosely into his Eternal Champion mythos, and has a delightful conceit. Protagonist Jherek Carnelian is a lot of fun, as is his friend, Lord Jagged.
Jherek has dinner with Gro, the Horse In Tears: "This is either snert, or it's snort. If it's snert, an entire advanced civilization had to change their ethical and moral precepts to bring themselves to eat it! If it's snort...well, if you've never died of food poisoning before, it
is an interesting experience..."
A bunch of immortals on a
far future Earth, supported by technology they no longer understand in ancient wondrous cities, where death is at best a temporary phenomenon, and characters are known to die deliberately in interesting manners because they know they'll be resurrected by the cities and it's a novel experience to help pass the time. The great enemy for Moorcock's characters is ennui.
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Dennis