The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius

Dust-jacket from the first edition.
Author	Michael Moorcock
Cover artist	Richard Glyn Jones[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Jerry Cornelius
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Allison & Busby
Publication date	1976
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	224 pp
ISBN	0-85031-141-1
OCLC	2615688
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ4.M8185 Li PR6063.O59

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]