The Cornelius Quartet

Name: The Cornelius Quartet
Brand: Orion Publishing Co
SKU: 9780575092402
Price: 20.39 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Michael Moorcock

Jerry Cornelius is an English assassin, physicist, rock star, and messiah to the Age of Science. Written between 1965 and 1967, this sequence of four novels relating Cornelius's adventures has been credited with inspiring dozens of writers and artists to rethink the genre of science fiction.

Set in a shifting, fluid version of the counter-culture 1960s, these books were among the most prominent 'New Wave' SF books. Jerry Cornelius is one of the most remarkable and distinctive characters in Moorcock's work, and his time-travelling, trippy and bizarre adventures are must-reads.

Contains THE FINAL PROGRAMME, A CURE FOR CANCER, THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN and THE CONDITION OF MUZAK.

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Weight: 1100g
Dimensions: 130 x 210mm
Publication Date: 22 Aug 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780575092402

About Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock (1939-) Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo Nebula World Fantasy Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 1999 he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award; in 2001 he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame; and in 2007 he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band the Deep Fix; and as a member of the prog rock band Hawkwind won a gold disc. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon Corum Von Bek Jerry Cornelius and of course his most famous character Elric. He has been compared to among others Balzac Dumas Dickens James Joyce Ian Fleming J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. Although born in London he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris.