From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!houxi!houca!lime!we13!otuxa!nwuxc!inuxc!burton
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: Books by Michael Moorcock
Article-I.D.: inuxc.189
Posted: Wed Jun 30 16:34:13 1982
Received: Thu Jul  1 06:27:44 1982
References: watmath.2872

Regarding the non-linearity of the multiverse:
This is particularly true when you consider that Elric of Melnibone
is a hero of one of the Dancers at the end of Time, that Jherek and
Amelia meet up with Oswald Bastable and Una Persson at the beginning
of time, and that Corum meets Elric on the Ship that sails the planes
at a point which for him is after meeting Elric during the adventure
with the Vanishing Tower, but which for Elric is before the Vanishing
Tower.

For Jim Gardner: if you liked the Dancers at the End of Time, you should
try the following books by Arthur Byron Cover (if you can find them):
Autumn Angels, The Platypus of Doom and other Nihilists, and An East Wind
Cometh (I think thats the title of the latest).


Other strange 'nonlinearities': How does the 'End of Time' compare with
the time of The Silver Warriors? Also, the Conjunction of Million Spheres
takes place at the End of Time, at the 'same time' (for want of a better 
phrase) as it does in the Elric books, the Corum books, and the Hawkmoon
books; yet it is implied that Elric and Corum represent the past, and
Hawkmoon the future, of the same plane (sort of). Are the planes just
different points along the time line of the same reality? Its very
confusing.

	Doug Burton