21st-century revolutionary Leo finds himself at the End of Time, surrounded by decadent sorcerers whose childlike incomprehension is his worst nightmare. How to be effective when consequence is removed? What can have meaning when everything is transformed into fashion? Can love exist here? Leo storms through this lurid land in search of meaning, a cause and a meal he can recognise. A new adventure in Michael Moorcock's 'End of Time' Universe
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Steve Aylett. Rebel at the End of Time
1 In the Golden Age
2 The Rescue
3 First Impressions
4 A Curious Kraken
5 A Girl From a Different World
6 The Masquerade
7 Reclining Female
8 The Grand Inquisitor
9 Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
10 The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
11 The Straw Man
12 The House of Death
13 Day of the Lords
14 The Master of the Arcanes
15 To Think of Time
16 The Faith Healer
17 The Last Man
18 The World
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In Which the Duke of Queens Creates a Scene
Regina Sparks flew over a lion-coloured desert in a monoplane of clear glass. Birthing from the horizon was a pyramid of fitted gold, confetti crowds already gathering about it. She viewed the landscape through large jet eyes without whites. Her friends looked like a scattering of paste jewels.
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‘So it is for us all,’ called Bishop Castle. ‘Do any of us actually need to eat? I can’t remember.’
‘I recall going several decades without food,’ Volospion said. ‘I simply adjusted myself regularly, and made sure I was all there. Yes, food is art. And the spread before us does lack focus. Argonheart Po has earned his shame.’
