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Title: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 1-56858-273-0 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Moorcock Still the Coolest
Comment: Jerry Cornelius, a product of sixties hip when Moorcock's name never seemed to be out of the papers, died, was resurrected and died again, certainly in terms of his fashionability. Now here he is with a bunch of the best of his earliest adventures coupled with a quartet of his best new ones, dealing with Clinton's foreign policy, Lady Diana's death-cult, Middle Eastern Politics and, in what is probably the best story in the book, events around the catastrophe of 9/11. And, to this reader's surprise at least, he seems even more relevant today than he did when he first hit the pages of New Worlds, that magazine of early post-modernist senisbility, some forty years ago. Moorcock's fingers were definitely on the pulse of our times and this collection proves it. Elegant, fast and sardonic, these are tales that are, like Scott Fitzgerald's,
distinctly of their time and yet retain a universality lacking in most other contemporary fiction. This is the best value on the literary market. As he proves in his McSweeney's Mammoth
Treasury story, Moorcock is also provides great entertainment while making us think a lot deeper than, for instance, the Matrix's rabbit hole. Totally recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Ur-rebel in bell bottoms
Comment: Jerry C. is a Mod gone mad: he is the ultimate manifestation of English 60's style. So anti-cool he's completely cool, so immoral he teaches by anti-example -- got that? -- as when he cheerfully kills a young boy who seems to be the earthly manifestation of the Buddha...shocking when he first appeared, even now he retains his appeal. In fact, in the post-James Bond era of Austin Powers, Jerry is more intriguing than ever...and Moorcock is simply one of the most important writers of fantasy, or writers period, up there with Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Doris Lessing.
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Title: The Cornelius Quartet: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 1568581831 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 11 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Shadows Over Baker Street by MICHAEL REAVES, JOHN PELAN ISBN: 0345455282 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 1563895161 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 1) by Robert E. Howard ISBN: 0345461517 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Skrayling Tree by Michael Moorcock ISBN: 0446531049 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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