- Paperback: 108 pages
- Publisher: PS Publishing (31 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1902880447
- ISBN-13: 978-1902880440
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.7 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,536,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Back with a vengeance,
This review is from: Firing the Cathedral: A Jerry Cornelius Novella (Paperback)
Michael Moorcock's uncanny ability to capture the mood of the times can be found in all his Jerry Cornelius work which remains as relevant to the present as it did to the sixties and seventies. He has continued to write Cornelius stories in response to his times and this one, with its references to Cromwell in Ireland and the British in the Middle East, is one of the best. A response to 9/11, it brings on all the old cast plus some lovely caricatures of George Bush and Colin Powell asthey make the world into a quagmire of globally warmed weather and weapons of mass destruction. Witty, black comedy. Nobody does it better. The apocalypse with a joke and a song. And while you're at it pick up the Cornelius Quartet. It's amazing how much of our present dilemma Moorcock predicted.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The first fiction about 9/11. Brilliant.,
By Gordon Asquith (NY, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Firing the Cathedral: A Jerry Cornelius Novella (Hardcover)
This is probably the first piece of fiction to deal with the events of Sept. 11th in the USA. It also deals with George W. Bush's policies in general and combines everything brilliantly.As Alan Moore says in his intelligent introduction, Jerry Cornelius was born in the 60s but he is really a man of the 21st century. His stories become increasingly relevant to us as time moves on. This book is a phantasmagoria of quotations (many from the 1930s and 1940s, showing how our present situation has its roots in British and American policies since that time) and grotesque images, very funny comedy, pointed criticism and, dare I say it, real wisdom. It starts in a protected shopping mall where the 'Gandi' (a combination of Gandalf, Father Christmas and Uncle Sam) is giving an audience and it ends with a vision of a ruined, war-ravaged, globally warmed England whose inhabitants have to purchase domed environments in order to go on living their familiar middle class lives. Satire, of course. But also visionary fiction of the highest order. This is a limited edition, so my advice is to snap it up while you can. I doubt if you will find anything more substantial for quite a while.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Jerry is back...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Firing the Cathedral: A Jerry Cornelius Novella (Paperback)
Jerry Cornelius takes his first substantial outing for a decade or two with this novella. The cast of characters is gathered once more - Jerry, Mo, Bishop Beesley, Una, and the rest.After Jerry proved something of a prophet for the end of the twentieth century, Moorcock brings him back with a typically ironic tale. Jerry finds himself in the world of Sept. 11, and he finds himself very much back in the swing of things. The book reads quickly, and the tone is often jovial, interspersed with typical Moorcock irony and oblique references. In a way, this is perhaps more accessible than most of the other Cornelius stories - but I think will be welcomed by any Cornelius fan. After a distinctly unfashionable intermission, Jerry is back, and cooler than ever before...
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