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son and Ethel Lindsay who have known me since,
as an enthusiastic and, I'm sure, sometimes irritating
fifteen-year-old, I first began to write the Sojan stories.

Michael Moorcock,
Fulham Road
July 1983

ELRIC

Elric at the End of Time

1. In Which Mrs. Persson Detects An Above Average
Degree of Chaos In The Megaflow

RETURNING FROM China to London and the Spring of
1936, Una Persson found an unfamiliar quality of
pathos in most of the friends she had last seen, as
far as she recalled, during the Blitz on her way back
from 1970. Then they had been desperately hearty: it
was a comfort to understand that the condition was
not permanent. Here, at present, Pierrot ruled and
she felt she possessed a better grip on her power.
This was, she admitted with shame, her favourite
moral climate for it encouraged in her an enormously
gratifying sense of spiritual superiority: the advan-
tage of having been born, originally, into a later and
probably more sophisticated age. The 1960s. Some
women, she reflected, were forced to have children
in order to enjoy this pleasure.

But she was uneasy, so she reported to the local
Time Centre and the bearded, sullen features of Ser-
geant Alvarez who welcomed her in white, apologis-
ing for the fact that he had himself only just that

morning left the Lower Devonian and had not had
time to change.

"It's the megaflow, as you guessed," he told her,
operating toggles to reveal his crazy display sys-
tems. "We've lost control."

"We never really had it." She lit a Sherman's and
shook her long hair back over the headrest of the
swivel chair, opening her military overcoat and loos-
ening her webbing. "Is it worse than usual?"