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{{quote|''"There's more than life to drugs and sex. It's better than nothing."''
|'''Jerry Cornelius''', ''The Condition of Muzak''}}
Quite possibly the strangest incarnation of [[Michael Moorcock]]'s "Eternal Champion", Jerry Cornelius is a hipper-than-hip secret agent/assassin who acts as [[Order Versus Chaos|a needed force of chaos]] in the world. He travels through time, dies (and gets better), and [[The Lost Lenore|pines for his beloved sister.]] He's a [[Karmic Trickster]]. Or maybe a [[Sad Clown]]. Or maybe he's just a seedy kid from [[wikipedia:Ladbroke Grove|Ladbroke Grove]] who has aspirations of being a jukebox hero.
He's probably all of them and a few other things besides.
As with [[The Elric Saga]], there are many Jerry Cornelius books and stories, not written in the same order as the internal chronology.
* ''The Final Programme'' (1965), adapted into a movie in 1973 (which sometimes goes by the title ''The Last Days of Man on Earth'').
* ''A Cure for Cancer'' (1968)
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* ''The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century'' (1979). Jerry is a supporting character in this, as his sister and their mutual friend/lover Una Persson take center stage.
* ''The Entropy Tango'' (1981)
* ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' (aka ''Gold Diggers of '77'', 1975), a crossover with the [[Sex Pistols]] film of the same name.
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* ''Firing the Cathedral'' (2002)
* "The Delhi Division" (1968)
* "The Dodgem Decision" (1969)
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* "The Roumanian Question" (1991)
* "All the Way Round Again" (1995)
* "The Spencer Inheritance" (1997), which can be read [https://archive.is/20121223081854/http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/spencer.htm here.]
* "The Camus Connection" (1997)
* "Cheering for the Rockets" (1998), which can be read [https://web.archive.org/web/20050906190202/http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/rockets/full/ here.]
* "The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius" (or "The English Assassin") was published in the British underground newspaper IT (International Times) from May 1969 to January 1970. It was illustrated by Mal Dean and Richard Glyn, with some strips scripted by M. John Harrison.
Moorcock also made the character available to other writers, making Jerry a sort of open-source character nearly 40 years before [[Jenny Everywhere]]. Most of the non-Moorcock Cornelius works are harder to find; notable examples include Norman Spinrad's "The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" and [[Moebius]]' ''Le garage hermétique de Jerry Cornelius'' (''The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius''). Other pieces (including some of the comic strips) have been compiled into the volume ''The Nature of the Catastrophe'' (1971, and not to be confused with the short story above).
Just to keep readers' lives [[Sarcasm Mode|interesting,]] different editions of short story compilations like ''The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius'' and ''The Nature of the Catastrophe'' have different contents. You can see those (and more non-Moorcock Cornelius story compilations) at the Wikiverse (a Michael Moorcook wiki) [
Perhaps unsurprisingly, [[Alan Moore]] had Jerry make a guest appearance in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]: 1969''
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* [[Anachronic Order]]: ''The Final Programme'' is the notable exception. ''A Cure For Cancer'' [[
▲* [[Anachronic Order]]: ''The Final Programme'' is the notable exception. ''A Cure For Cancer'' [[Lampshades]] it:
▲{{quote| '''Note to the reader:''' ''This book has an unconventional structure.''}}
* [[A Very British Christmas]]: In ''The Condition of Muzak.''
* [[Bad Habits]]: Jerry disguises himself as a priest from time to time, and it's hard to tell if Bishop Beesley is actually defrocked or not.
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* [[The Edwardian Era]]: We start seeing this timeline in ''The English Assassin'', though the [[Schizo-Tech]], [[Zeppelins from Another World]] and references to rock music suggest an [[Alternate Timeline]].
* [[Endless Daytime]]: In ''A Cure For Cancer'', the villain's attempts to impose more order on existence causes this.
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* [[Entropy and Chaos Magic]]
* [[Epigraph|Epigraphs]]: Quotes from various sources (song lyrics, news articles, advertising) are sprinkled throughout the works.
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