Search -
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius Stories of the Comic Apocalypse Author:Michael Moorcock Jerry Cornelius English assassin, physicist, rock star, messiah to the Age of Science is one of fantastic literatures greatest creations. Acclaimed by Moorcocks readers, critics, and peers from Mick Jagger to J. G. Ballard, Cornelius is the ultimate postmodern antihero, more Borgesian than Asimovian. Three of the storie... more »s in this collection are here anthologized for the first time: "The Spencer Inheritance," which enmeshes Jerry with Princess Di; "Cheering for the Rockets," involving an attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant; and "Firing the Cathedral," a novella based on 9/11 and its aftermath.« less