Tales From The End Of Time
New York: Guild America (via the Science Fiction Book Club), 1989 (August) hardcover;
original (club) price: $6·98;
311 pages;
I.S.B.N.: none (code: 15128);
cover artist: Robert Eastman;
no British edition (with these contents [see below]).
Two omnibuses, each bearing the same collective title but comprised of differing contents — see below — both are linked to what is probably Moorcock’s best-loved trilogy, ‘The Dancers At The End Of Time’. The first volume comprises the Legends From The End Of Time collection (1976) together with A Messiah At The End Of Time (1978, a retitling of The Transformation Of Miss Mavis Ming [1977]). Somewhat confusingly, the second volume (2014) is more a retitled expansion of the Legends From The End Of Time omnibus (1993) comprising the three novellas from the Legends… collection together with Constant Fire (a revision of The Transformation Of Miss Mavis Ming) plus two other tales (and one piece of short non-fiction).
Contents (1989 edition):-
p. 1: Legends From The End Of Time (sub-titled “Being Further Experiences of the Iron Orchid, the Duke of Queens, Lord Jagged of Canaria, the Everlasting Concubine, My Lady Charlotina, Bishop Castle and Other Residents at the End of Time” on contents page);
p. 171: A Messiah At The End Of Time (sub-titled “or The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming” on contents page).
Also…
London: Gollancz trade-paperback, 2014 (September 11th);
sub-titled “Being further experiences of the Iron Orchid, the Duke of Queens, Lord Jagged of Canaria, the Everlasting Concubine, My Lady Charlotina, Bishop Castle and other residents at the End of Time” opposite (i.e. facing) title page;
part of the Michael Moorcock Collection;
edited by John Davey;
original price: £12·99;
xx + 424 pages;
includes ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ by John Clute (pp. vii–xii);
also includes ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ by Moorcock (pp. xiii–xviii);
I.S.B.N.: 978-0-575-09261-7;
cover artist: Mark Reeve;
illustrated by Jill Riches, James Cawthorn, Mal Dean & Moorcock.
Copyright page states “Revised versions”, but should be more accurately ‘Versions contain minor textual amendments’.
Contents (2014 edition):-
p. vii: ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ (non-fiction) by John Clute;
p. xiii: ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ (non-fiction) by Moorcock;
p. xix: Contents page;
p. 1: ‘Pale Roses’ (sub-titled “Legend The First”);
p. 49: ‘White Stars’ (sub-titled “Legend The Second”);
p. 103: ‘Ancient Shadows’ (sub-titled “Legend The Third”);
p. 189: Constant Fire (sub-titled “Legend The Fourth”);
p. 341: ‘Elric At The End Of Time’ (sub-titled “Legend The Fifth”);
p. 395: ‘Sumptuous Dress: A Question Of Size At The End Of Time’ (as ‘Sumptuous Dress’ only, on contents page; sub-titled “Legend The Sixth”);
p. 421: ‘Introduction To The White Wolf Edition Of Legends From The End Of Time’ (non-fiction).
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