Jerry Cornelius is an English assassin, physicist, rock star, and messiah to the Age of Science. Written between 1965 and 1967, this sequence of four novels relating Cornelius's adventures has been credited with inspiring dozens of writers and artists to rethink the genre of science fiction. Acclaimed British author Michael Moorcock's time-tripping antihero is one of the great achievements in modern fantastic literature. This is the first U. S. publication of one of the most influential sagas in postmodern sci-fi.
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IN CAMBODIA, A COUNTRY lying between Vietnam and Thailand on the map, between n and zero on the time chart, is the magic city of Angkor, where once the great Khmer race lived. Read the first page
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Mr Moorcock is the British Balzac and Zola and you no more need to read all of his work that you need to read ever story in the Human Comedy. He can write with stiletto economy, as in his Cornelius stories or with discursive brilliance as in his Cornelius-for-the-21st-century King of the City, which echoes the Cornelius books, even in its title. I won't give away the full-cast, fifty orchestra, all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing ending of this, but you won't feel cheated when you get there. These books matured as the author matured and Angus Wilson's 'I had looked forward to the final volume but had not expected anything so good.' was echoed by me -- the books get better and better. And if your impression of Moorcock is of a sort of Thomas Wolfe turning out reams of waffle a day, think again. These stories are masterpieces of economy. The first hero for the post-modern world and an ikon of the cyberpunk movement, Jerry Cornelius is a seductive, bisexual, multiracial model for how to get most out of life in the 21st century. He isn't so much amoral as creating for himself a new morality, a new identity or series of identities malleable enough to meet the ever-changing realities of our age. His quest is even more relevant now than it was when the books were first written.
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This is better than everything it influenced. If you like all that stuff which came after it, from the comics revolution to the cyberpunk movement, read the original. It's still far and away the best. And all the original Mal Dean illustrations are here in a decent size.
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As someone who grew up reading Watchmen and Sandman and all that good stuff, coming across this book was a revelation. No wonder Moorcock was reputedly annoyed with Grant Morrison for his Invisibles material. It all comes from here. It's like up to now you were only getting cover versions of the full strength band. It rocks, it rolls, it blows your mind! Knock out cool!
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Moorcock's Masterpiece
The Cornelius Quartet is undoubtedly Moorcock at his best. His prose, while sparse, shimmers and sparkles. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2009 by Mr. K. Cross
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A little imagination helps
So if a little imagination helps, consider what it's like when your imagination is unreined. No reason to let a little reality stand in your way. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2007 by calmly
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Timely stuff
Even The Final Programme, which isn't the best of these, still has a lot of relevance to modern times, but it's when you get into A CURE FOR CANCER that it feels chillingly timely. Read more
Published on 11 May 2002
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Is this a classic ?
With Ballard and Burroughs this represents the first aggressive foray of the post-modernists -- what Moorcock calls the anti-modernists -- and like them it's stood the test of... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2002 by "jugadora"
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Multimedia Cornelius
You can now get the record THE NEW WORLDS FAIR, Deep Fix, buy the DVD or video, THE FINAL PROGRAMME with Jon Finch, and read the book, this one. Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2002 by "jugadora"
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS, HEAVEN HELP US!
As Jerry's horrible old mum says at the end of the IT comic strip Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius, Merry Christmas, Heaven Help Us, Every One. Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2001 by "jugadora"
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Outstanding. Beats the video!
I got this because I saw the DVD 'The Final Programme' with Jon Finch & Co. Fun movie, if patchy, but nothing on the books. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2001 by "jugadora"
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Still the best
These get better with age. Moorcock has a finely tuned sense of the social fault lines and his Notting Hill of the 60s and 70s was a microcosm of the world to come. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2001
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