The Cornelius Quartet is the collective name for the Jerry Cornelius novels by Michael Moorcock. It is also a compilation volume (as The Cornelius Chronicles in its 1st edition) of the four novels . It comprises The Final Programme , A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak . In collection form it has remained continuously in print for 30 years.
The four novels are set in an ever shifting, yet always fashionable, alterna...
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The Cornelius Quartet is the collective name for the Jerry Cornelius novels by Michael Moorcock. It is also a compilation volume (as The Cornelius Chronicles in its 1st edition) of the four novels . It comprises The Final Programme , A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak . In collection form it has remained continuously in print for 30 years.
The four novels are set in an ever shifting, yet always fashionable, alternate "multiverse" of anarchist revolutionaries and English popart turmoil. They chart the adventures of a wide range of recurring characters, notably Jerry Cornelius and his sister Catherine, Una Persson and Colonel Pyat. The books are neither straight science fiction or pure fantasy, Moorcock himself commented "Much of my work borrowed from the iconography and vocabulary of science fiction in the 1960s but I would not, for instance, classify the Jerry Cornelius tetralogy as a genre work".
The Complete Review noted that it comprised "an arc of...
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