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Jerry Cornelius Books in Order

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Explore 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

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12 books

1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

7

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.

8

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.

9

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.

10

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.

11

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.

12

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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