Order of Jerry Cornelius Books
Jerry Cornelius is the protagonist in a series of literary fiction novels by English novelist Michael Moorcock. The Jerry Cornelius character is a fictional secret agent and an adventurer – a hipster with ambiguous sexuality. The characters in the series often show up in other Moorcock novels.
The Cornelius Quartet began in 1968 with the novel The Final Programme and ended in 1977 with The Condition of Muzak, however there are also other related novels in the series. Below is a list of Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Jerry Cornelius Books
The Final Programme | (1968) | |
A Cure for Cancer | (1969) | |
The New Nature of the Catastrophe | (1971) | |
The English Assassin | (1972) | |
The Adventures of Una Persson & Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century / Persson and Catherine | (1976) | |
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius | (1976) | |
The Condition of Muzak | (1978) | |
The Entropy Tango | (1981) | |
The Opium General and Other Stories | (1984) | |
Firing the Cathedral | (2002) | |
Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times | (2014) | |
Pegging the President | (2018) |
Note: Persson and Catherine was originally titled The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century.