This major new release from the Greg Foat Group sees the celebrated jazz quintet making the most of the acoustics of an ancient church, accompanied by a full ensemble of supporting musicians.

Amelia is now more tolerant towards the people of the End of Time, though still occasionally revolted by their lack of morals. 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.Pale Roses begins with the destruction of the rainbow part of Werther de Goethe's creation Rain by the Everlasting Concubine, Mistress Christia, and Werther's despair. Jherek is far more interested in Mrs Amelia Underwood, a time traveller from Victorian England, as he is fascinated by the Victorian era.

Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix; and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. Most of the potential inherent in the premise has already been used up by early on in the second book.G. Wells also making a cameo appearance in another New Wave SF novel - Christoper Priest's The Space Machine. The book is included in Interzone editor David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985). Werther is the only other character from the end of time who was born, rather than created through the use of power rings.

In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award; in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame; and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. There's also the unstoppable end of the multiverse as we know it but that's on the back burner most of the time.Jherek is sentenced to death, as the case against him is unequivocal, but he cannot understand why all the people around him are so upset; inhabitants of the End of Time are immortal, and for them death is merely transitory. Madness may be said to be a tendency to simplify, into easily grasped metaphors, the nature of the world. Once, it was said, the whole city had been sentient, the most intelligent being in the universe, but now it was senile and even its memories were fragmented. The time in the school is constantly recycled by a robot nanny so old she has started to break down, and as a result is recycling the same week repeatedly.