The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius explained

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
Author:	Michael Moorcock
Cover Artist:	Richard Glyn Jones^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Jerry Cornelius
Genre:	Science fiction
Publisher:	Allison & Busby
Release Date:	1976
Media Type:	Print (hardback)
Pages:	224 pp
Isbn:	0-85031-141-1
Dewey:	823/.9/14
Congress:	PZ4.M8185 Li PR6063.O59
Oclc:	2615688

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

• Web site: Brown . Charles N. . Charles N. Brown . William G. Contento . The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2003) . 2007-12-13 .
• Web site: Contento . William G. . Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition . 2007-12-13 .

Notes and References

1. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?43196 "Publication: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius"
2. The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius. https://web.archive.org/web/20090304050028/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue340/books.html. Science Fiction Weekly. Science Fiction Book Reviews. Paul Di Filippo. 4 March 2009. 27 October 2003. 340. Vol. 9, No. 43. 6 January 2016.
3. Langford . Dave . David Langford . Critical Mass . . 88 . 8 . . April 1987.