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	Barbelith: Comic Books: Morrison's debt to Moorcock
		Cornelius was an androgynous, bisexual, well - dressed, gun toting, drug taking, fast car driving arsonist, rock star, nuclear physicist and assassin, who so evidently reflected the preoccupations of disaffected '60s youth that he seemed, within the confines of fiction, geared to become (and occassionally did become) the 'new messiah' for the Scientific Age.
		Jerry Cornelius is merely one 'avatar' of this 'Champion' aspect amongst many in the Moorcock mythos (and rather an iconoclastic one at that).
		Cornelius, in essence, is allowed by Moorcock to travel only to worlds where the rule of Order has become so stultifying that a vital injection of Chaos (even one as radical as destroying an entire planet) is needed to counterbalance it.
	www.barbelith.com /cgi-bin/articles/00000009.shtml (890 words)

	Jerry Cornelius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerry Cornelius is a fictional secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock.
		He is a kind of hip secret agent of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous sexuality; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books, though the individual books had little connection with one another, having a more metafictional than causal relationship to one another.
		The Nature of the Catastrophe, a collection of Jerry Cornelius stories and comic strips which had appeared in the International Times (with art by Mal Dean) by various hands, was published in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Cornelius (686 words)

	The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) - Michael Moorcock
		The four novels collected in The Cornelius Chronicles (republished in slightly revised form as The Cornelius Quartet) present an arc of Jerry Cornelius-adventures, from the (fairly) straightforward action-adventure of the first, The Final Programme, to the metaphysical summa of The Condition of Muzak.
		Cornelius, of course, lives on elsewhere: Moorcock created the template, but never fixed the characters's identity, and freed him to be used by others as well.
		Cornelius' world is a culture beyond decline: a reflection of England in the years when Moorcock was writing these books, the inner rot made glaringly visible in an exaggerated apocalyptic vision.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/moorcock/cchron.htm (733 words)

	Literature \ Novels \ Jerry Cornelius (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jerry Cornelius is already an underground legend, a comic-strip hero, saint and devil in one.
		Jerry is enlisted by the rather strange Miss Brunner, at first it seems to do a little job for her, but as things progress, she seems to have ulterior motives for keeping Jerry at hand.
		Jerry Cornelius rises from the deep to witness the destruction of the world - and to poop the biggest party ever thrown west of Ladbroke Grove.
	www.novymir.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /terminalcafe/jerry.html (1123 words)

	Michael Moorcock
		As the universe careens towards the stifling entropy of the over-ordered society, the individual struggles in a scenario in which life is a meaningless war, and the hero is as much victim as saviour.
		Jerry Cornelius is the Modern World equivalent of a Renaissance Man, competent scientist, fearless soldier, and too-hip hipster, battling Evil Forces and partying with aplomb.
		Cornelius is a vastly complex character who is both a James Bond-ish New Barbarian and a reluctant Messiah, a bastard mix of the ultimate conformist and the ultimate anarchist.
	www.strangewords.com /moorcock1.html (680 words)

	THE LIVES AND TIMES OF JERRY CORNELIUS, Michael Moorcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The rock band Human League claimed Jerry as their inspiration and Hawkwind's "Needle Gun" is a Jerry Cornelius song.
		Cornelius was also the acknowledged inspiration for Alan Moore's "Watchmen" graphic novels and for much of Neil Gaiman's work in graphic novels.
		I could throw in Nabokov and Borges… Jerry Cornelius is still Moorcock's most original, dream-haunting creation — a mind-blown Spirit of the Age… The only way to enjoy and understand the Jerry Cornelius stories is to jump in and strike out for the nearest raft.
	www.4w8w.com /bookmoorcock2.html (596 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Jerry lives the archaic life of an Imperial rajah in "The Delhi Division," until events force him to make a coward's exit.
		Jerry and his cohorts all die several times, yet spring back to life for their next adventure, like cartoon cats and mice.
		Jerry's personality in the post-1972 stories is altered a tad from the devil-may-care trickster of the earliest tales.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue340/books.html (779 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		Jon Finch plays Cornelius as Lord Byron with a Nobel prize, moving through an absurdist fantasy world that is staggering toward the last gasp of the modern age.
		The Cornelius clan is easily the most dysfunctional family since the Borgias, with the now-dead patriarch being the only thing keeping the lid on.
		Jerry takes them along as he raids the Alice in Wonderland deathtrap that is the family estate, but things don't go as planned.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue230/screen3.html (837 words)

	The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock \| PopMatters Book Review
		As such, Cornelius began as a sort of tabula rasa, and through the artistic influences of the creators at hand, evolved to mirror the zeitgeist of the era.
		Cornelius spends the majority of the novel either unconscious or unspeaking, and as such the focus turns to some of the secondary characters, including Jerry and Frank's rather boorish mother.
		Cornelius, outside of inconsequential physical characteristics, remains the same throughout the series, reborn after the calamities of each novel, as are the cast of supporting characters, who, outside of the ubiquitous Frank Cornelius, are more caricatures than characters, simply one-dimensional figures that act to prolong the action of each novel.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/c/cornelius-quartet.shtml (1197 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > Open Source Jerry Cornelius?
		Many people have done Jerry Cornilius like characters (among them Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright) - so the wise move would seem to change the name and appearence and some of the focus of the character (this worked for Talbot who notes that moorcock thinks of Arkwright and Cornelius as seperate creations).
		Cornelius was definitely originally intended as an open source character.
		In the 1960s Jerry Cornelius was the coolest assassin on the Ladbroke Grove block.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/9022 (861 words)

	Actor Derrick O'Connor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cornelius' father has died, leaving a hidden microfilm on which is the final computer programme of the title.
		Those involved in the hunt for the film include Jerry (Jon Finch), his evil brother (Derrick O'Connor), and the awesome Miss Brunner (Runacre), who has a tendency to consume her lovers, bones and all.
		The Moorcock original was not as strong as the other 3 books of his Jerry Cornelius tetralogy, but none the less was sophisticated in its ironies, which Fuest here reduces (literally in one case) to a series of knowing winks.
	hometown.aol.com /mimiopr/myhomepage/index.html (926 words)

	Amazon.ca: Final Programme: Video: Jon Finch,Jenny Runacre,Hugh Griffith,Patrick Magee,Sterling Hayden,Harry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Like Elric, the Jerry Cornelius stories, an epic in themselves, comprise a subset of his Eternal Champion epic, inspired in part by Jungian psychology and the theories of Joseph Campbell.
		Of all of Moorcock's books, the Jerry Cornelius stories are the most experimental and are by far those which lend themselves the least to movie adaptation.
		One of the things which makes the Jerry Cornelius series most interesting is that each novel takes place in a slightly different world with slightly different characters with similar names, reliving the same dramas over and over again.
	www.amazon.ca /Final-Programme-Robert-Fuest/dp/0782010873 (1171 words)

	THE CORNELIUS QUARTET, Michael Moorcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
	www.4w8w.com /bookmoorcock1.html (293 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Introduction to Firing the Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jerry Cornelius, Pierrot of Armageddon, is reaffirmed in
		, Jerry was the first post-quantum personality, his various identities, agendas and appearances existing as a kind of super-position, a one-man multiverse of mixed states that would collapse down to a single fixed self only when observed.
		Cornelius explores the nightmare territories that are ahead of us; are now upon us.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/ftcintro/5 (516 words)

	JERRY KOBZA CONTINUES HIS RETURN FROM LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS I - RacingWest
		Jerry was diagnosed with a severe lung infection that required seven months of I.V. therapy, and then surgery to remove part of his left lung three years ago.
		Jerry spent the first three months of the season competing in USAC, BCRA, and Budweiser midget series on the west coast.
		Jerry left the series in June, leading the drivers points in two of the associations.
	www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/1451?email=1 (225 words)

	Halls of Boredom - The Cornelius Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Never one to take the moral or intellectual high road, he provided a working-class balance to the more "cultured" efforts of friend and collaborator J.G. Ballard, and together the two virtually defined British science fiction during the 60s and 70s.
		Cornelius is an idealized film noir hero jump-started into the near future and free from any compromizing moral code other than the protection of his own self-interest.
		He also serves as an stand-in for how the reader would like to see himself: cool, aristocratic, and sharp to a fault behind the wheel of his vintage 20th Century Duesenberg or at the trigger of a gun that fires poisoned needles rather than bullets (in a nod to the drug culture of the period).
	home.earthlink.net /~jheermann/cornelius.html (476 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Firing the Cathedral: A Jerry Cornelius Novella: Books: Michael Moorcock (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Michael Moorcock's uncanny ability to capture the mood of the times can be found in all his Jerry Cornelius work which remains as relevant to the present as it did to the sixties and seventies.
		He has continued to write Cornelius stories in response to his times and this one, with its references to Cromwell in Ireland and the British in the Middle East, is one of the best.
		As Alan Moore says in his intelligent introduction, Jerry Cornelius was born in the 60s but he is really a man of the 21st century.
	www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Firing-Cathedral-Jerry-Cornelius-Novella/dp/1902880447 (1124 words)

	Rambles: Michael Moorcock, The Lives & Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cornelius is a time traveler, physicist, assassin and rock star
		Cornelius has been on the go since the Vietnam War and remains true to the bell-bottomed trousers, protests, sexual freedom and drug use of that era.
		The collection gets an A for style and the author's talent for exotic description; an F for characters, including Cornelius, who are stick figures, intentionally more symbolic than human; and an F for plots that are incoherent collages of random time chunks and events.
	www.rambles.net /moorcock_jercorn03.html (683 words)

	Elric Saga - Tolkienesque? Blasphemy!!! - Quarter To Three Forums
		They seemed weird to everyone at the time because Cornelius and the gamblers of Fate (or whatever they're called) were arguably the earliest form of cyberpunk fiction ever produced.
		But still, Jerry Cornelius is driving in his Duesenberg SJ Phaeton (man I'd like one of those) and listening to the Animals, you know....
		My objection to some of these books in the Cornelius line of novels is that the characters spend way too much time suffering from anomie and nausea and so on, and the narrative is so murky at times it's hard to tell where people are or what they or doing, much less why.
	www.quartertothree.com /game-talk/showthread.php?t=2355 (751 words)

	Off the Shelf - "The Cornelius Quartet" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This monster of a collection, four stories and all novel length from Michael Moorcock, was loaned to me by my friend Z. I did like it somewhat, but the overall effect of the novel is confusing - yet is sure to be something you continue to give thought to long after you finish it.
		For those uninitiated, The Cornelius Quartet is the combined storyline of one of sci-fi's most influential fantasy characters - Jeremiah Cornelius - Jerry for short.
		Cornelius really does remind me of a more twisted, darker James Bond.
	www.legendsmagazine.net /130/corn.htm (303 words)

	Thoughts \ Editorials \ In Lighter Vein: A note on the Jerry Cornelius Tetralogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Part of my original intention with the Jerry Cornelius stories was to 'liberate' the narrative; to leave it open to the reader's interpretation as much as possible - to involve the reader in such a way as to bring their own imagination into play.
		That is to say, while I strive for the effect of randomness on one level, the effect is achieved by a tightly controlled system of internal reference, puns, ironies, logic-jumps which no single reader may fairly be expected to follow.
		Similarly, if they were watching a richly textured film, they would not expect to perceive consciously every detail of every scene, music, etc. They are maintained primarily by a complicated series of prefiguring images which are developed as the book progresses.
	www.novymir.com.au /terminalcafe/lighvein.html (406 words)

	Article Abstracts: #8
		Leading up to it, however, and to the enigma of Miller’s abandoning writing afterwards, the whole canon has extrinsic interest, chronicling his development from a commercial writer to an artist, one who may have quit while he was ahead rather than have everything thereafter compared to one book and found wanting.
		Moorcock lacks William Burroughs’s accurate and devastating satire and his verbal experiments have been less radical, but in both artists can be observed a basic dissatisfaction with linear methods of representing space and time, a surreal sense of co-existing multiple worlds, and an emphasis on apocalyptic disaster.
		The world of Jerry Cornelius is basically that of the 1960s—buoyant, elitist, androgynous, narcissistic, over-populated, and permeated with images of violence.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a8.htm (1867 words)

	TONY LEE: CATCHING UP - NEWSARAMA
		When I was writing this, I was speaking to Bryan Talbot and he mentioned that Moorcock allowed Cornelius to be 'open source' on things like this, and he put me in contact with the man himself.
		Originally Jerry was a cameo, a guest star, but as the story grew, Jerry became a supporting character in his own right - because let's face it, Jerry's the kind of guy who laughs at a simple 'walk on' part, right?
		But in the end, Jerry was in because I wanted as many 'otherworldly known' characters in the book as possible.
	forum.newsarama.com /showthread.php?t=78996 (2333 words)

	[ Ant ] Introduction to _The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius_ ◁ The Multiverse and the Eternal Champion ...
		I think it was Jim Sallis (who also wrote a couple of Cornelius stories) who said that Jerry was more a form of fiction than he was a character.
		I have an affection for Jerry as a character, as I have for the other people who appear regularly in the stories, but I think Sallis made a good point.
		Jerry was a child of the optimistic 60s, when we all thought we could do a little something to change the world.
	homepage.mac.com /antallan/tlatojc.html (859 words)

	Series List
		Jerry Cornelius: A Reader’s Guide (bi) The New Nature of the Catastrophe, ed.
		Epilogue: Jerry and Miss Brunner at the Beginning (ss) The New Nature of the Catastrophe, ed.
		Jerry and Miss Brunner at the Beginning (ss) The New Nature of the Catastrophe, ed.
	www.locusmag.com /index/f15.html (1751 words)

	Misc. Hunt County, Texas Obituaries & Death Notices
		Jerry Cornelius, 68, of Dallas, graveside service 11 a.m.
		Surviving are his wife of Farmersville; a daughter, Connie Adams of Farmersville; two sons, Jerry Cox of Princeton and Donald Cox of Clarksville; brother Edgar Cox of Garland; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
		Cornelius was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department and was of the Baptist faith.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/tx/tx-hunt10.htm (6503 words)

	SciFan: Books: Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius, The by Michael Moorcock (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, ...
		Jerry Cornelius – English assassin, physicist, rock star, messiah to the Age of Science – is one of fantastic literature’s greatest creations.
		Acclaimed by Moorcock’s readers, critics, and peers from Mick Jagger to J. Ballard, Cornelius is the ultimate postmodern antihero, more Borgesian than Asimovian.
		Three of the stories in this collection are here anthologized for the first time: “The Spencer Inheritance,” which enmeshes Jerry with Princess Di; “Cheering for the Rockets,” involving an attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant; and “Firing the Cathedral,” a novella based on 9/11 and its aftermath.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=7278 (236 words)

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