Michael Moorcock

writer
Short Story

Flux

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!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Scar-Faced Brooder 1

The Time Dweller

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Scar-Faced Brooder 2

Escape from Evening

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  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novella

Behold the Man

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 who he expected.
The Time Machine was a sphere full of milky fluid in which the traveller floated, enclosed in a rubber suit, breathing through a hose leading into the wall of the machine.
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  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • 1986 Nebula
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Karl Glogauer

Behold the Man

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

An Alien Heat

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.”
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Dancers at the End of Time 2

The Hollow Lands

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  • Science Fiction
  • Romance
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Hollow Lands

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.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Pale Roses

  • by Michael Moorcock
  • in New Worlds 7, edited by Hilary Bailey and Charles Platt (Sphere, December 1974)
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  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

Dancers at the End of Time 3

The End of All Songs

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Romanian Question

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.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

London Bone

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

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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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel