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by Michael Moorcock (Author) "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..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 434 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld Military (10 Jun 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857980409
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857980400
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 892,600 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Contains stories about "Jerry Cornelius" by Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, Norman Spinrad, James Sallis, M. John Harrison and others, this is one of the Millennium Uniform Editions of Moorcock's work, omnibus volumes with revised texts and new introductions.

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Hero of our Times, 5 Mar 2003
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This review is from: New Nature Of The Catastrophe (Tale of the Eternal Champion) (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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool! Cooler! Coolest!, 9 Jan 2002
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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. I wish I hadn't, but there you go. Just jump in and -- get cool! Michael Moorcock and his old Magnificent Seven are always welcome to come and save my village from the bandits. Yes, yes, yes! Jerry Cornelius is my messiah for the 21st century. Best stories after Moorcock are Aldiss, Spinrad, Harrison.
Not so much an alternative history of the 20th century as the ongoing history of our own. This is better than a thousand historical analyses.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Still ahead of their time!, 12 Jan 2001
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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.
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