num_pages: 352
description: Jerry Cornelius – English assassin, physicist, rock star, messiah to the Age of Science – is one of fantastic literature’s greatest creations. Acclaimed by Moorcock’s readers, critics, and peers from Mick Jagger to J. G. Ballard, Cornelius is the ultimate postmodern antihero, more Borgesian than Asimovian. Three of the stories 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.
language: English
title: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse
titlecomplete: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse
genres: Science Fiction, Collections, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fantasy
ratings_count: 212
series: Jerry Cornelius
publisher: Running Press