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A Cure for Cancer: The Cornelius Quartet 2 (The Eternal Champion) Kindle Edition

by Michael Moorcock (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
A mirror-image of his former self, Jerry Cornelius returns to a parallel London, armed with a vibragun and his infamous charisma and charm to boot. On the trail of the grotesque Bishop Beesley, Jerry hunts for a mysterious device capable of manipulating the cosmos. Corruption, violence and greed are rife in a war-torn Europe, but Jerry is against history; he is outside of history. He lusts for the equilibrium of anarchy, for randomness supreme—lock up your daughters (and sons), Jerry Cornelius is back.

Dunked into the ether of Chaos, the second book in the Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer, was one of the first novels of its form, using hypermedia to spin a web of hauntingly surreal scenes, wickedly funny social satire and sci-fi vignettes that resonate deeply for the modern reader.
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  1. Book 2 of 4
    The Eternal Champion
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    240 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Titan Books
  5. Publication date
    June 7, 2016
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About the Author

 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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Z3E2LM8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2016
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.1 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783291786
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 2 of 4 ‏ : ‎ The Eternal Champion
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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.

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  • Stacy St. Clair
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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    If you do not enjoy post-modern litterature, you may want to pass on the quartet. This was a little more difficult (for me) to push through than the others but it was not a first read for me. If you have enjoyed reading of Elric, Corrum, and the rest... this (to me) seems to be a fractured distilation of the Eternal Champion.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2007
    There is a whole bunch more Jerry Cornelius weirdness here. He is still roaming around 1960s London, among other places, and in conflict with the villainous Bishop Beesley.

    Some people are certainly going to find it too weird, or too impenetrable to enjoy, I think, as it is by no means straightforward, but this is part of JC's appeal.
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  • Willie
    5.0 out of 5 stars ...BURN OUT THE CANCER BURN OUT THE CANCER BURN OUT THE C...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2000
    Quite an astonishing book. Unlike the previous Jerry Cornelius book (The final programme), the plot is significant to the book. Thats not to say its any easier to understand. It concerns Jerrys hunt for a mysterious device of his, and the attempts of others, particularly the grotesque Bishop Beesly, to get hold of the device for their own ends.
    This book, though often humourous, has a far more serious tone than its predecessor, and some very harsh satire. Targets include the irrelevence of the popular press and corruption within the Catholic Church.
    The title refers to both a literal cure (as described in the section headings), and more importantly, to "Social Cancer" which is cured by Ethnic Cleansing. The image of hoardes of NATO helicopters napalming London, screaming "BURN OUT THE CANCER" will stay with you a long time.
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  • Kenneth Valderrama
    5.0 out of 5 stars Do you want to know what is happing in Kosavo?
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 1999
    And why a generation that avoided napalm, now is bombing the hell out of the Balkins? This book will not give a direct answer, but it can give you a rare deep look into the darker side of the countercluture at the time of its creation, not a cheesy, moralistic look back by some ultra-repentant, dew eyed hippy. You can hear the NATO copters with loudspeakers screaming LETS FIND A CURE FOR CANCER LETS FIND A CURE FOR CANCER LETS FIND A CURE FOR CANCER
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  • A reader
    1.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately, the patient died
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2003
    Good artists may break the rules after proving they can create within them. We know Moorcock can write, so we can guess that he wrote "A Cure For Cancer" as an experiment in a chaotic, vague vein. Unfortunately, as with many experiments, wading through the results can be a chore.
    Social satire? Sure. Interesting sci-fi vignettes? Absolutely. Incisive glances at the sounds, styles, and feel of a parallel world subjectively based on a late-1960s London? You bet. But be warned that if you're looking for more than the faintest shred of plot to capture your interest, look elsewhere in the Eternal Champion multiverse. Perhaps ACFC is Moorcock's idea of what happens to a novel dipped in the primordial Chaos described in his other works.
    I can appreciate what Moorcock is trying to get across. I even get a kick out of the *idea* of the novel's structure, in theory, anyway. However, it's difficult to actually enjoy a work in which a) every stitch of dialogue is so vague that, if you had no grasp of Moorcock's other works, the book would seem a nearly interminable string of highly stylish non sequiturs, and b) characters that live and (suddenly) die so guided by random chance and urges from the id that the joke pales early on. The chapter headlines culled from sensational tabloids did give me a chuckle, though.
    It's certainly possible that you may find great enjoyment and provocative thoughts aplenty in ACFC. You certainly will in other Moorcock novels. And if you're looking for the pinnacle of social satire in an "unconventional" novel, check out the far superior "Catch-22" by Joe Heller. But unless you're the type who relishes flipping through TV channels for hours on end in an altered state of consciousness, or tends to convince yourself after reading a work such as ACFC that your time was well spent and the emperor is indeed wearing clothes, don't waste your time. This patient is terminal.
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