First in Moorcock's "Oswald Bastable" series featuring a time-hopping British Lancer. In this one Bastable jumps from 1902 to a 1973 in which the World Wars never happened and Western imperialism has developed to an extreme. What first seems a technological Utopia turns out to hide sinister foundations. This was a pleasant surprise: I expected light adventure and found social criticism, satire, ... and also light adventure. Reading the next soon.