‘Cheering For The Rockets’

Jerry Cornelius — the ambiguous, amoral, androgynous English Assassin —

First appearance: Interzone No. 137
Brighton:  November 1998 magazine;
edited by David Pringle;
price:  £3·00;
68 pages;
I.S.S.N.: 0264-3596;
cover artist: Dominic Harman.

‘Cheering For The Rockets: A Jerry Cornelius Story’ (as ‘Cheering For The Rockets’ only, on contents page): pp. 27–31.



First anthologised appearance: Inifinity Plus Two
Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2003 (May) hardcover;
edited by Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers;
original price: £45·00;
282 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  1-894815-42-4;
introduction by John Clute;
cover artist: Richard Powers.

‘Cheering For The Rockets: A Jerry Cornelius Story’ (as ‘Cheering For The Rockets’ only, on contents page): pp. 87–99.
Inifinity Plus: The Anthology
Oxford: Solaris, 2007 (July) trade-sized paperback;
edited by Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers;
original price: £9·99;
687 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  978-1-84416-489-9;
cover artist: Dominic Harman;
‘Cheering For The Rockets: A Jerry Cornelius Story’ (as ‘Cheering For The Rockets’ only, on contents page): pp. 471–487.

First collected appearance: The Lives And Times Of Jerry Cornelius: Stories Of The Comic Apocalypse
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003 (September) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
original price:  $15·00;
viii + 273 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  1-56858-273-0;
cover artist:  Richard Ross.

‘Cheering For The Rockets’: pp. 183–196.

Other appearance:-

Jerry Cornelius: His Lives And His Times;
London: Gollancz, 2014 (May 29th) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
edited by John Davey;
original price:  £9·99;
xxii + 389 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  978-1-473-20072-2;
cover artist:  unknown;
illustrated by Harry Douthwaite, Mal Dean & David Britton;
“Original artwork, by Richard Glyn Jones, withdrawn by artist”;
‘The Camus Referendum’: pp. 337–352.