The primary setting, however, is the very far distant future when our remaining descendants are virtually immortal and omnipotent as well as, by any previous standards, immoral. In this series Moorcock flexes his incredible imagination and takes that decadant period and applies it to a Dying Earth whose inhabitants are totally devoid of all basic moral ideas. Not surprisingly, Jherek proves to be a poor criminal, and is quickly arrested, jailed and sent to trial. Exploring human morality in a very edifying way, perhaps even making you question the life you lead. Jherek is inexperienced to the point of naiveté about the Victorian Era, despite his interest in it, and a (temporally) local thief, Snoozer Vine, tricks him into becoming an accomplice to Snoozer's latest scam.

So when Jherek and the Iron Orchid picnic in one of the Shanalorm parks, they are completely isolated. The ending originally involved a scene where the main character, Mavis Ming, was whipped into submission by Bloom. The Dancers at the End of Time is a series of science fiction novels and short stories written by Michael Moorcock, the setting of which is the End of Time, an era "where entropy is king and the universe has begun collapsing upon itself". He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library.Upon realizing this, Jagged understood that time is circular, not linear as was previously assumed, and devised a new plan. Madness may be said to be a tendency to simplify, into easily grasped metaphors, the nature of the world. This is largely due to the unexpected, bizarre (and often instantaneous) changes which his hosts make to the landscape. A comedy, a satire, a love story, a retelling of Adam and Eve, and tribute to the fin de siecle of Wilde and Huysmans (and also Wells and Dunsany) An uptight Victorian women in a post-human(and post-morality) future(resembling a description of a Bosch painting much of the time) and her tumultuous courting by Jherek Carnelian through time and past the end of the world. Werther de Goethe is named for the main character of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and for Goethe himself, and is likewise angst ridden.

The End of All Songs, the concluding novel of the trilogy, picks up where The Hollow Lands left off - Jherek Carnelian and Mrs Amelia Underwood are stranded on a beach during an early stage in the Earth's evolution, before birds, land lizards or mammals. Sometimes, after you've just finished killing a man with a horse shoe because you were out of bullets for instance, you need to read something light and funny to make you forget about all the carnage you've wrought.To his surprise, the judge appears to be none other than his friend, Lord Jagged but claims to be one Jagger. She had a straw, wide-brimmed hat upon her heavily coiled chestnut hair and an expression of outrage on her pretty, heart-shaped face. During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. The novel begins with a discussion between Jherek Carnelian and his mother, the Iron Orchid, about the meaning of the word virtuous. Jherek's childhood and adolescence subsequently provided a great deal of novelty and interest for the Iron Orchid and her clique, and left Jherek with a notable childlike freshness and creativity, compared to the majority of his contemporaries.