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Available
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Series
Collection
Publication
Mayflower Granada (1975), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 180 pages
Description
At the world's end, all love is timeless, and all age-old disputes irrelevant. Jherek Carnelian, however, is in danger of taking reality too seriously, and grows tired of his pleasures. Perhaps a hunt for aliens could lift his spirits? Or better yet, a journey through time? Ah, yes The past So complicated and strange - especially with its scarcity of time machines for a return trip But regardless of the dangers, the past does hold one irresistible lure: Mrs Amelia Underwood, for whom the Hero at the End of Time risks all.
Media reviews
Jherek, séducteur piégé à son propre jeu, connaît maintenant toutes les affres de l'état amoureux et doit trouver à tout prix un moyen de remonter dans le temps jusqu'à Londres en 1896. En fait, ce n'est que le début d'un chassé-croisé assez complexe à travers les trois tomes, qui le
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mènera non seulement à l'époque victorienne mais aussi à l'ère paléozoïque. Son chemin sera semé d'embûches : des paradoxes temporels qui risquent à tout moment de l'expulser du passé, des démêlés avec la justice anglaise qui met un inspecteur zélé de Scotland Yard avec toute une escouade de « bobbies » à ses trousses, des rencontres avec une bande d'extraterrestres maraudeurs, une gouvernante robotique passablement bornée et des scorpions géants. Plus un Mr. Underwood décidément pas commode. Puis il y a les manigances de Jagged, qui réapparaît sous divers noms tout au long de l'histoire. Le tout sur fond d'une mort annoncée de la Terre, voire de tout l'univers, pour très bientôt. Show Less
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LibraryThing member bexaplex
Jherek and friends try to amuse themselves at the End of Time, and stumble upon a way back to 1896, and Jherek's lost love, Mrs. Amelia Underwood.
I had to read this second book before I was sure I liked the series. Jherek is so hapless you can't help but laugh, and this time the hash he makes out
I had to read this second book before I was sure I liked the series. Jherek is so hapless you can't help but laugh, and this time the hash he makes out
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of the past is a little less tragic. Show Less
LibraryThing member helver
The Hollow Lands is the second in the Jherek Carnelian series, in which Jherek waits for Mrs. Amelia Underwood to return to his futures, finally gets tired of waiting, then a chance encounter provides him the means to return to London in 1896 and find her again. He manages to get her to come with
Hilarity ensues. Eventually Amelia agrees to accompany Jherek back to the future, but their time machine goes a little wonky and appears to take them into the very distant past. One wonders if the machinations of Lord Jagged the Crafty are being played out here or if their time machine actually did just malfunction.
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him by planting a seed of doubt into the staid Mr. Underwood who all-too-quickly comes to believe that his wife has cuckolded him. Amelia and Jherek go on the lamb, attempting to dodge the police who believe that he's either a convicted murderer who's somehow come back from the dead after having been hanged, or a (*gasp*) foreign socialist.Hilarity ensues. Eventually Amelia agrees to accompany Jherek back to the future, but their time machine goes a little wonky and appears to take them into the very distant past. One wonders if the machinations of Lord Jagged the Crafty are being played out here or if their time machine actually did just malfunction.
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Awards
British Fantasy Award (Winner — August Derleth Fantasy Award — 1976)
Language
Original publication date
1974
Physical description
180 p.; 6.9 inches
ISBN
0583121047 / 9780583121040