The Lives And Times Of Jerry Cornelius: Stories Of The Comic Apocalypse
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows trade-sized paperback, 2003 (September);
original price: $15·00;
viii + 273 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 1-56858-273-0;
cover artist: Richard Ross;
no other edition (by this title).
Jerry Cornelius — the ambiguous, amoral, androgynous English Assassin —
The Lives And Times Of Jerry Cornelius: Stories Of The Comic Apocalypse is a collection of linked short fiction (published between 1968 & 2002; see below), and is a variant edition of The Lives And Times Of Jerry Cornelius (1976), excluding some of the original’s contents but adding others. “The stories appear here in order of writing, and should be read as a continuous narrative.”
Contents:-
p. v: ‘Introduction: My Times, My Lives’ (as ‘Introduction’ only, on contents page);
p. 1: ‘The Peking Junction’;
p. 13: ‘The Delhi Division’;
p. 23: ‘The Tank Trapeze’;
p. 41: ‘The Swastika Set-Up’;
p. 71: ‘The Sunset Perspective: A Moral Tale’ (as ‘The Sunset Perspective’ only, on contents page);
p. 93: ‘Sea Wolves’;
p. 111: ‘Voortekker: A Tale Of Empire’ (as ‘Voortrekker’ only, on contents page);
p. 133: ‘The Spencer Inheritance’;
p. 167: ‘The Camus Referendum’ (as ‘The Camus Connection’ on copyright & contents pages);
p. 183: ‘Cheering For The Rockets’;
p. 197: Firing The Cathedral.
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