- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (3 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752806009
- ISBN-13: 978-0752806006
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 708,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A stunning collection of stories fron some of genre fiction's greatest names and based on Micael Moorcock's Multiverse. Jerry Cornelius is the Eternal Champion's strangest and perhaps most potent incarnation and these inspired the wildest realms of imaginative fiction.
About the Author
Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.
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Out of the rich and rolling lands of the west came Jerry Cornelius, with a vibragun holstered at his hip and a generous message in his heart, to China. Read the first page
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
New Worlds really was an astonishing magazine. It would seem avante garde today. In fact many of its contributors are still regarded as a-g -- Ballard, M.J.Harrison, Moorcock, Bayley, Sallis -- and they're all here with the exception of Ballard, oddly because he was the first after Moorcock to take up the method of apparently disconnected short sequences under mysterious or elliptical headings. I think Burroughs had done it before them. It became a pointless convention in many inferior stories, but it still works to produce a dream-logic that makes perfect sense not only as you read, but as you dream! There are some outstanding stories here. M.J.Harrison's are probably the most consistently good with Moorcock's while the Spinrad and the Aldiss aren't really non-linear. A shame Ballard doesn't complete the set. There's Langdon Jones (legendary composer/photographer -- what happened to him ?) the co-editor, there's Maxim Jakubowski, who now does mainly detective stories and runs Murder Inc, there's Hilary Bailey, who abandoned JC to write best-selling aga-sagas and loads of others, including an essay by John Clute which I've read somewhere before but can't quite connect with, persuasive and clever as Clute is. Captain Robert Maxwell is a frequently appearing character in the JC stories -- sometimes on board a yacht! I sometimes wonder if Jerry had something to do with Captain Bob's unfortunate demise! Some of these stories have an erotic delicacy of a flavour found nowhere else. Others are sharp and hard as diamonds reflecting the fault-lines of modern society. This is an incredibly good deal. Get the Ballard short stories and this and you can guarantee yourself one of the most substantial, mind-blowing and beautifully written experiences you've ever had. The hard back of this is around and contains the whole IT comic strip from 1970.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Out of the boundary breaking pages of New Worlds Magazine came Jerry Cornelius - the English Assassin, the Eternal Champion - and perhaps Michael Moorcock's most experimental creation.
In these 31 short stories and two prose pieces, writers including Brian Aldiss, M John Harrison, Langdon Jones, Hilary Bailey (and of course Mr Moorcock himself) send Jerry Cornelius spiralling through the twentieth century, causing chaos here, inadvertently restoring order there, with a needle gun in his hand and a Hendrix song on the stereo.
The stories range from all-out psychedelic sci-fi fantasies to more conventional adventures, but all of them are stamped with the glamorous, deliciously sinister, sexy and thought-provoking hallmarks of Michael Moorcock's original invention.
Including John Clute's explaination of Cornelius' creation and development, and John Davey's reader's guide, this collection is the ideal introduction to Jerry and his eternal nemeses Miss Brunner, Bishop and Mitzi Beesley, Captain Maxwell, and Jerry's seedy sibling Frank.
The New Nature of the Catastrophe complements and expands on the themes and plots explored in The Cornelius Quartet and A Cornelius Calendar, and is invaluable if you want a wider understanding of the Eternal Champion series as a whole.
Tasty!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Cornelius is a real hero of our times. His insouciant existentialism, his lack of political correctness, his willingness to jump feet first into a pit of writhing social
contradictions and make some sense of them, his tuned-in relationship to modern history, all make. These stories are written by some of the hippest writers of our time, including Moorcock. It's good to see contributions by James Sallis, Langdon Jones and Norman Spinrad, as well as Aldiss, Harrison and Moorcock himself. A delicious feast. A book you can read and re-read and get something new out of every time you do.
Highly recommended.
contradictions and make some sense of them, his tuned-in relationship to modern history, all make. These stories are written by some of the hippest writers of our time, including Moorcock. It's good to see contributions by James Sallis, Langdon Jones and Norman Spinrad, as well as Aldiss, Harrison and Moorcock himself. A delicious feast. A book you can read and re-read and get something new out of every time you do.
Highly recommended.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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This is incredible material. Mind-blowing and all that. I've been sick of all the Moorcock fans trying to push this stuff on me and I must admit I resisted it for a long time. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2002
Still going strong
It is hard to believe that Mr Moorcock and Co. wrote these stories before I was born. It's like reading the Surreal History of the World from
circa 1965 to the present day,... Read more
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