''The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius'' is a collection of short stories by British fantasy and science fiction writer
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has work ...
. It is part of his long-running
Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius is a fictional character created by English author Michael Moorcock. The character is an urban adventurer and an incarnation of the author's Eternal Champion concept. Cornelius is a hipster of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous ...
series.
The book was originally published by
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby (A & B) is a publishing house based in London established by Clive Allison and Margaret Busby in 1967. The company has built up a reputation as a leading independent publisher.
Background
Launching as a publishing company in May ...
in 1976 and collects stories originally published between 1969 and 1974.
A later edition was published in 2003 by
Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows was an American independent book publisher in New York City. Known as 4W8W or Four Walls, the company was notable for its dual commitment to progressive politics and adventurous, edgy literary fiction.
History
Four W ...
, 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
''Firing the Cathedral'' is a novella by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. It is part of his long-running Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius is a fictional character created by English author Michael Moorcock. The characte ...
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Reception
Dave Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter ''Ansible'', and holds the all-time record for most ...
reviewed ''The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius'' for ''
White Dwarf
A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's, while its volume is comparable to the Earth's. A white dwarf's faint luminosity comes fro ...
'' #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".
References
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External links
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1976 short story collections
Allison and Busby books
Books by Michael Moorcock
Science fiction short story collections
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