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The Final Programme
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Jerry Cornelius is a scientist, a rock star, and an assassin. He is the hippest adventurer of them all: tripping through a pop art nightmare in which kidnappings, murder, sex and drugs are a daily occurrence. Along with his savvy and ruthless partner-in-chaos, Miss Brunner, Cornelius is on a mission to control a revolutionary code for creating the ultimate human being, a modern messiah— the final programme.
The first book in the Cornelius Quartet is the groundbreaking introduction to the misadventures and vendettas of Jerry Cornelius, one of modern literature’s most distinctive characters, the product of a bewildering post-modern culture, and an inspiration for generations of characters since.
The first book in the Cornelius Quartet is the groundbreaking introduction to the misadventures and vendettas of Jerry Cornelius, one of modern literature’s most distinctive characters, the product of a bewildering post-modern culture, and an inspiration for generations of characters since.
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Fastnbulbous
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“Written in 1965, Moorcock had trouble getting his first installment in the Cornelius Quartet published for a few years, due to it's groundbreaking take on hallucinogenic drug culture, queer sexuality and gender fluidity, stuff that 60 years later still inspires gasps and pearl clutching. Throw in some anti-hero behavior on the part of Jerry Cornelius (physicist, Jesuit, wannabe rockstar) such as incest and murder-for-hire, as well as self-indulgently overlong guitar jamming, and we've got a perfectly contentious avatar of 60s underground counterculture. As editor of New Worlds magazine, Moorcock encouraged other writers to take the Cornelius character and run with it, resulting in him popping up in a bunch of other short stories and books like Zelig. The writing structure draws from the avant-garde like William S. Burroughs with seemingly disjointed dialogue suggesting that everyone is on drugs. And yet there's plenty of brisk James Bond style action sequences that keeps things moving. The book touches on all kinds of metaphysical concepts, extinction-event overpopulation, immortality and AI implications of supercomputers as precursors to cyberpunk, each time just a quick hallucinogenic flash rather than a tedious info dump. Six decades later, your baggage may vary -- it might seem dated along the lines of a depraved mix of Austin Powers, The Avengers and Dr. Who, but just know that this pre-dated all those things. Definitely as groundbreaking and influential as the work of J.G. Ballard.”
Benjamin Vega
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Feel distantLimited character growthMemorableMorally ambiguousOriginalUnforgettable protagonistAction-packedEpic scopeGripping/excitingPlot holesRushedUnrealisticOpulentPicturesqueSetting fits the storyClear but uninspiredEasy to readStraightforwardTakes getting used toWhimsical toneDeathDomestic violenceExplicit sexual contentMurderSexual assaultViolence
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About Michael Moorcock
Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters. In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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