title: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
text: # The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
  
  The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius is a collection of short stories by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock. It is part of his long-running Jerry Cornelius series. The book was originally published by Allison & Busby in 1976 and collects stories originally published between 1969 and 1974. A later edition was published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows, in which four stories from the original edition are replaced.
  
  ## Contents
  
  ### Allison & Busby edition, 1976
  
  * "The Peking Junction"
  * "The Delhi Division"
  * "The Tank Trapeze"
  * "The Nature of the Catastrophe"
  * "The Swastika Set-Up"
  * "The Sunset Perspective"
  * "Sea Wolves"
  * "Voortrekker"
  * "Dead Singers"
  * "The Longford Cup"
  * "The Entropy Circuit"
  
  ### Four Walls Eight Windows edition, 2003
  
  * Introduction
  * "The Peking Junction"
  * "The Delhi Division"
  * "The Tank Trapeze"
  * "The Swastika Set-Up"
  * "The Sunset Perspective"
  * "Sea Wolves"
  * "Voortrekker"
  * "The Spencer Inheritance"
  * "The Camus Connection"
  * "Cheering for the Rockets"
  * "Firing the Cathedral"
  
  ## Reception
  
  Dave Langford reviewed The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius for White Dwarf #88, and stated that "oblique, fragmented stories of the hero/assassin who became a rallying point for the 1960s 'New Wave' themes of entropy and disintegration".
  
  