The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius

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.

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

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. Games Workshop (Issue 88): 8.


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