One of the weaker offerings in the White Wolf omnibus of the Eternal Champion. Dafnish Armatuce, the Fire Clown Emmanuel Bloom, and even ol' Elric are here to join in on the festivities. The Elric offering is the weakest almost seeming like it might have been written on a dare. The other stories feature most of those whacky denizens of the End of Time interacting with a cast of characters thrown in mostly through time travel. Moorcock makes his heavy handed points about existentialism, nihilism, religion and the like in the usual farcical EoT fashion but leaves a little room for us to see even these lunatics as human as well.

I'm not a very big fan of real over the top humor in sf or fantasy, seeming to be the only person who doesn't find Hitchhiker's Guide funny, so these already were running in the mud before I started them. They are also decidedly weaker than the Dancers at the End of Time volume. And we get no Jherick Carnelian to boot.

This volume seems almost tacked on just to get these leftover EoT Eternal Champion stories into the series somehow. There is a feeble and quite unnecessary attempt to connect the stories with a background narrator's voice. Still the stories are never dull, just forgettable in the overall Eternal Champion Saga. ( )

Legends from the End of Time: http://www.librarything.com/review/89664116

In addition to the content from Legends from the End of Time, this volume also contains a little story entitled Elric at the End of Time. This episode takes place chronologically very early in the Elric stories - just after he left Imyyr in the care of Yyrkoon; Cymoril is still alive and Yyrkoon has not yet betrayed him and called him an outlaw. Elric gets caught in a megaflow distortion and ends up getting carried from his own time to the End of Time - where, of course, hilarity ensues. Elric, being Elric, sees demons, Chaos Lords and plots on all sides. The EndTimers see a potential distraction. They create for Elric a series of daunting quests which require heroics on the part of Elric and Werther and the Duke of Queens. Eventually Elric starts to think they the EndTimers are toying with him (which they are) and they don't really need his help (which they don't) and that he doesn't really like being manipulated in that way (which he doesn't). Things are all going quite poorly until Una Persson enlists the aid of Lord Jagged to help get Elric back into his native timestream. Jagged, of course, helps and this is where things get interesting. Elric sees Jagged and knows him to be Arioch. At the end of the story, Una asks Jagged if he is Arioch and Jagged replies with the quintessential Jagged-esque non-answer, implying that Jagged actually IS Arioch. Definitely an interesting potentiality. Although, it feels tacked on to the end of the story. In the past, I've written about my disappointment with Piers Anthony and his tendency to try to wrap things together in ways that prior books in the series never intended. I hope that Moorcock hasn't succumbed to the same temptation. ( )

I doubt even Moorcock realized he was predicting the End of Time before it was even schedule to happen, an environment in which its denizens could reshape themselves and the world around them with only the flip of a wrist, or the turning of a ring.

In Legends from the End of Time are collected further adventures of these residents of the End of Time, to whom life is but a series of adventures, and all new experiences are equally enjoyable, even if they would be terrifying to a non-resident.

This volume, more or less, does a nice job of summing up the activities of the other residents while Jherek is busy pursuing Amelia’s affection through time and space, as chronicled in the collection Dancers at the End of Time.

Several popular Moorcock characters make their appearance, including the ever popular Elric and Una, as well as the mysterious Fireclown. And you’ll learn things about one particular resident that will make you want to re-read Dancers just to see how it fits.

I for one am glad that I invested my time and money collecting this White Wolf omnibus collection, as I have found each any every one at the very least entertaining, if not always literary gems.

If you’re a fan of Moorcock, or want to see a world run by Chaos, but free of evil (and, as it is, good), then the End of Time books are ideal, and a little strange. ( )