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Michael Moorcock

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Flux

by Michael Moorcock and Barrington J. Bayley
When the government of the European Economic Community has no idea what to do next, they send Marshall-in-Chief Max File ten years into the future to find out the eventual effects of their actions.

Although this story was too abstract for my taste, I did enjoy the early presentation of what today might be called a Boltzmann Brain.

The world from which he had come, or any other world for that matter, could dissipate into its component elements at any instant, or could have come into being at any previous instant, complete with everybody’s memories!
“Flux” by Michael Moorcock and Barrington J. Bayley, New Worlds, July 1963.

Scar-Faced Brooder 1

The Time Dweller

by Michael Moorcock
“The Time Dweller” by Michael Moorcock, New Worlds Science Fiction, February 1964.

Scar-Faced Brooder 2

Escape from Evening

by Michael Moorcock
“Escape from Evening” by Michael Moorcock, New Worlds Science Fiction #148, March 1965.

Behold the Man

by Michael Moorcock
The first version of this story that I read was the 24-page graphic adaptation scripted by Doug Moench and illustrated by Alex Nino in final issue of my favorite comic magazine of 1975, the short-lived Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction. In the complex story, Karl Glogauer travels back to 28 A.D. hoping to meet Jesus, but none of the historical figures he meets are whom he expected.
The Time Machine is a sphere full of milky fluid in which the traveler floats enclosed in a rubber suit, breathing through a hose leading into the wall of the machine.
“Behold the Man” by Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, September 1966.

Karl Glogauer

Behold the Man

by Michael Moorcock
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (Allison and Busby, March 1969).

An Alien Heat

by Michael Moorcock
The time machine from Moorcock’s earlier “Behold the Man‘ allows Jherek to pursue his romantic interest, Amelia Underwood, from Jherek’s own time to her Victorian age.

According to the alien Yusharisp, Jherek’s time is at the end of the universe, which allows this story to be billed as the last love story of the universe. However, the phrase ’last story’ might be slightly inappropriate for the first story of a series that includes three other novels and five short stories. The first three novels, including this one, are gathered in an omnibus edition called The Dancers at the End of Time.

“Yes,” said Jherek. “I have already met the time-traveller. Last night. At the Duke of Queens’. I was so impressed by the costume that I made one up for myself.”
An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock (MacGibbon and Kee, October 1972).

The Dancers at the End of Time 2

The Hollow Lands

by Michael Moorcock
The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock (Harper and Row, 1974).

The Hollow Lands

by Michael Moorcock
Still in pursuit of Amelia Underwood, Jherek again travels to Victorian England where he runs into her husband (oh, yes, that quaint Victorian Mrs. nomenclature) and a disbelieving H.G. Wells.
“No true Eloi should be able to read or write.” Mr. Wells puffed on his pipe, peering out of the window.
The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock (Harper and Row, October 1974).

Pale Roses

by Michael Moorcock
“Pale Roses” by Michael Moorcock, in New Worlds 7, edited by Hilary Bailey and Charles Platt (Sphere, December 1974).

Dancers at the End of Time 3

The End of All Songs

by Michael Moorcock
The End of All Songs by Michael Moorcock (Harper and Row, July 1976).

The Romanian Question

by Michael Moorcock
Jerry appears to be a time traveler (or maybe God) involved with Hitler and the democratic movement in Romania, but I really didn’t get it. Even so, it was fun to see the bicycle he rides as a time machine, which shares a description with the time machine in “Behold the Man.”
The time machine was a sphere of milky fluid attached to the front lamp-holder of a Raleigh “Royal Albert” Police Bicycle of the old, sturdy type, before all the corruption had been made public.
“The Romanian Question” by Michael Moorcock, in Back Brain Recluse, Spring 1991.

London Bone

by Michael Moorcock
“London Bone” by Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, edited by David Garnett (White Wolf Publishing, August 1998).

The Lost Canal

by Michael Moorcock
“The Lost Canal” by Michael Moorcock, in Old Mars, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin (Bantam Books, October 2013).
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