The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
# The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius

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. 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".

