The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius

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The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
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The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius is a collection of short stories by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. It is part of his long-running Jerry Cornelius series.[2] The book was originally published by Allison & Busby in 1976 and collects stories originally published between 1969 and 1974. A later edition was published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows, in which four stories from the original edition are replaced.

Contents

Allison & Busby edition, 1976

  • "The Peking Junction"
  • "The Delhi Division"
  • "The Tank Trapeze"
  • "The Nature of the Catastrophe"
  • "The Swastika Set-Up"
  • "The Sunset Perspective"
  • "Sea Wolves"
  • "Voortrekker"
  • "Dead Singers"
  • "The Longford Cup"
  • "The Entropy Circuit"

Four Walls Eight Windows edition, 2003

  • Introduction
  • "The Peking Junction"
  • "The Delhi Division"
  • "The Tank Trapeze"
  • "The Swastika Set-Up"
  • "The Sunset Perspective"
  • "Sea Wolves"
  • "Voortrekker"
  • "The Spencer Inheritance"
  • "The Camus Connection"
  • "Cheering for the Rockets"
  • "Firing the Cathedral"

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius for White Dwarf #88, and stated that "oblique, fragmented stories of the hero/assassin who became a rallying point for the 1960s 'New Wave' themes of entropy and disintegration".[3]

References

  1. ^ "Publication: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius", ISFDB.
  2. Science Fiction Weekly (340). Vol. 9, No. 43. Archived from the original
    on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  3. ^ Langford, Dave (April 1987). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 88. Games Workshop. p. 8.

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