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.
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
- ^ "Publication: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius", ISFDB.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Langford, Dave (April 1987). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 88. Games Workshop. p. 8.
- Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2003)". Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". Retrieved 2007-12-13.
External links
- The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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