num_pages: 436
description: The cultural explosion of the 1960s gave us The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, psychedelia, pop art, Oz and IT. It found its apotheosis in the character of Jerry Cornelius who inspired an entire subculture and continues to influence the world of rock and roll as thoroughly as he influences the literary avant-garde.Rather like Frankenstein's monster, Jerry Cornelius began life as an experiment, first of Michael Moorcock's, and then of other talented young writers associated with New Worlds and the restless, innovative energy which surrounded that legendary magazine. They were all eager to identify, through the fiction, 'the nature of the catastrophe'. Sir Angus Wilson praised them as representing the most dynamic, invigorating new direction in fiction for years.The Jerry Cornelius stories still provoke controversy with their portraits of modern villains (Robert Maxwell was a regular character) and unlikely heroes. They continue to attract brilliant young writers—some of whom appear here—who use Cornelius to express their involvement with the 20th Century's most crucial concerns. These are the writers who continue to examine the nature of the catastrophe—relentlessly attacking sham, hypocrisy, pomposity and political doubletalk wherever they find it. Here is the Eternal Champion's strangest and, some believe, most potent manifestation.Published for the first time in fully authorized collected editions, Michael Moorcock's classic fantasy sequence is the supreme achievement in modern imaginative literature.
language: English
title: The New Nature of the Catastrophe
titlecomplete: The New Nature of the Catastrophe (Tale of the Eternal Champion, #9)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy
ratings_count: 132
series: Jerry Cornelius, The Eternal Champion Sequence, Tale of the Eternal Champion
publisher: Millennium