Michael Moorcock
The Cornelius Quartet
The Final Program
A Cure for Cancer
The English Assassin
The Condition of Muzak

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"The creator of Jerry Cornelius has been compared by reviewers to Tolkein and Raymond Chandler, Wyndham Lewis and Ronald Firbank, Mervyn Peake and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Charles Dickens and James Joyce. I could throw in Nabokov and Borges…" — Sunday Times (U.K.)

"Moorcock is a major novelist of enormous ambition." — Washington Post

"Because of his lack of elitism, no other contemporary English writer seems to capture the moral dilemmas around us with such a wry good humor, vigor and style in a richly modernist way.… This quartet is one of the really worthwhile pieces of English writing of the last thirty years." — Alan Warner in the U.K. Waterstone's "Classics for the Millennium" list

Jerry Cornelius — English assassin, Jewish cockney, rock star, physicist, time traveler, and messiah to the Age of Science — has been hailed as the first cyberpunk anti-hero. A political non-conformist and ardent feminist, Cornelius ranks among the most complex characters in modern fantasy fiction.

Once considered shocking — Mick Jagger, offered the part of Jerry Cornelius by the filmmaker David Putnam, turned down the role because it was "too freaky" — the Cornelius saga was written between 1965 and 1976. The books were originally banned in Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Italy, and Burma, among other places, due to the highly sexed, violent, and seeming amoral antics of their central protagonist. Moorcock's hero later became the inspiration for the film The Crow, the Luther Arkwright graphic novels, and Alan Moore's "Watchmen" graphic novels, among many other cutting-edge endeavors.

Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939. He was the editor of the legendary magazine New Worlds between 1964 and 1971, then again from 1977 to 1991. He has written more than eighty books, both fiction and non-fiction, and edited another ten. These books include The Condition of Muzak, Gloriana (World Fantasy Award), Mother London (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, 1988), Count Brass, Behold the Man (Nebula Award, 1999), and King of the City. He has written for and performed with the rock bands Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult, and divides his time between Austin, Texas, and London.

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