Jerry Cornelius Books in Order
Part ofMichael Moorcock Books in OrderExplore the Jerry Cornelius books by Michael Moorcock in order, with short summaries of his shifting identities, strange adventures, and fractured worlds.
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Jerry Cornelius books in publication order
12 books
The Final Programme
by Michael Moorcock
1968
Scientist, musician, and assassin Jerry Cornelius joins the ruthless Miss Brunner in pursuit of a revolutionary code. Their mission to create an ultimate human being unfolds amid kidnapping and violence, where scientific ambition and personal vendettas become difficult to separate.
A Cure for Cancer
by Michael Moorcock
1969
Jerry Cornelius returns to a parallel London and pursues Bishop Beesley, seeking a device that can manipulate the cosmos. War and corruption spread across Europe, while Jerry's search unfolds through shifting scenes of violence, politics, and unstable reality.
The New Nature of the Catastrophe
by Michael Moorcock
1971
This anthology brings together stories and nonfiction by Moorcock and other writers featuring Jerry Cornelius and related characters. Its linked contributions explore the assassin's changing worlds and identities, expanding a shared fictional setting through several different voices and approaches.
The English Assassin
by Michael Moorcock
1972
Jerry Cornelius and familiar companions move through a fractured portrait of English society, confronting class, empire, and revolution. Shifting scenes and identities connect private lives with political violence, questioning the assumptions that sustain institutions and the responsibilities of those living within them.
The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century / Persson and Catherine
by Michael Moorcock
1976
Lovers Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius leave their peaceful life together to seek adventure. Their separate journeys lead Una into revolutionary wars and Catherine into troubling relationships, testing their identities and the possibilities of returning to one another.
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
by Michael Moorcock
1976
Assassin, musician, scientist, and would-be savior Jerry Cornelius moves through shifting realities and political disasters in these stories. His changing roles turn familiar events into strange adventures, where identity and responsibility become difficult to hold onto.
The Condition of Muzak
by Michael Moorcock
1978
Jerry Cornelius moves through changing identities in a devastated Europe of fragmented cities and dwindling possibilities. As London loses its balance, his longing for Catherine persists amid the disorder, raising questions about whether personal connection can survive collapse.
The Entropy Tango
by Michael Moorcock
1981
Jerry Cornelius and familiar companions move through revolution, decaying cities, and shifting roles as their world grows colder. This fragmented romance explores the search for identity when political upheaval and personal alienation leave even experienced time operatives without control.
The Opium General and Other Stories
by Michael Moorcock
1984
A Jerry Cornelius novella anchors this mixture of fiction and political essays, alongside a story about a heroin addict's paranoid dreamworld. The pieces connect personal delusion, social collapse, censorship, and the ideological assumptions underlying science fiction and fantasy.
Firing the Cathedral
by Michael Moorcock
2002
Jerry Cornelius responds to the attacks of September 2001 and their aftermath in this satirical novella. Terrorism, climate change, and renewed fears of apocalypse shape a fragmented adventure that brings the recurring assassin into contemporary political crises.
Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times
by Michael Moorcock
2014
These short stories follow Jerry Cornelius, an assassin, physicist and rock star, through a shifting version of the 1960s counterculture. Time travel and changing realities unsettle familiar events in adventures that mix science fiction with social satire.
Pegging the President
by Michael Moorcock
2018
Jerry Cornelius returns as an English assassin confronting the politics of the twenty-first century. This novella turns his attention to colonialism and despotism, using his ambiguous identity and violent activities to explore the persistence of imperial power.
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