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One of Michael Moorcock's most popular fictional creations was Jerry Cornelius, a kind of hip secret agent of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous sexuality; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books, but the individual books had little connection with one another, as a variation of the multiverse theme. The first Jerry Cornelius book, The Final Programme was made into a feature film starring Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre.

Moorcock encouraged other authors to write stories about Jerry Cornelius. One example is Norman Spinrad's The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde. (to do: more examples)

The series draws plot elements from Moorcock's Elric series, as well as the Commedia dell'arte. Moorcock hints in many places that Cornelius may be an aspect of the Eternal Champion. Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: for example, Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time series has a character called Jherek Carnelian; Una Persson appears in the Dancers series, the Oswald Bastable books, and possibly as Oona in the latest Elric books; and Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures.

Table of contents

1 Notable characters
2 Bibliography

2.1 Novels
2.2 Other books
2.3 Shorter fiction

3 See also
4 External links

Notable characters

Jerry Cornelius
Miss Brunner
Bishop Beesley
Una Persson
Catherine Cornelius
Major Nye
Professor Hira

Bibliography

Other books

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century
The Entropy Tango
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (a.k.a. Gold Diggers of '77)
The Alchemist's Question (novella)
Firing the Cathedral (novella)

Shorter fiction

"The Peking Junction"
"The Delhi Division"
"The Tank Trapeze"
"The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius" (a.k.a. "The English Assassin")
"The Nature of the Catastrophe"
"The Swastika Set-up"
"The Sunset Perspective"
"Sea Wolves"
"Voortrekker"
"Dead Singers" (not to be confused with the non-Jerry Cornelius story of the same title)
"The Longford Cup"
"The Entropy Circuit"
"The Entropy Tango"
"The Murderer's Song"
"The Gangrene Collection"
"The Roumanian Question"
"The Dodgem Decision" (a.k.a. "The Dodgem Division")
"All the Way Round Again" (a.k.a. "The Enigma Windows")
"Cheering for the Rockets"
"The Spencer Inheritance"

External links

http://www.multiverse.org/
http://www.novymir.com.au/terminalcafe/jerry.html
http://www.jaybabcock.com/cornelius.html
Link to pictures of original cover art and blurbs
In Lighter Vein: A note on the Jerry Cornelius Tetralogy - in which Michael Moorcock explains his intentions behind the style of seeming randomness of the books.

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