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The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
dust-jacket from the first edition
AuthorMichael Moorcock
Cover artistRichard Glyn Jones[1]
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJerry Cornelius
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAllison & Busby
Publication date
1976
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages224 pp
ISBN0-85031-141-1
OCLC2615688
823/.9/14
LC ClassPZ4.M8185 Li PR6063.O59

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. ^ Paul Di Filippo (27 October 2003). "The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius". Science Fiction Book Reviews. 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 (Issue 88). Games Workshop: 8. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: year (link)


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