Jerry Cornelius is tall, slender, dark and in his mid-twenties. A sharp-dressed, sexually ambivalent figure, he is at various times a Jesuit, a physicist, an acid rock star, anti-socialite and incestuous lover of his raven-tressed sister Catherine, a tendency that saw him ejected from the family home by his father, a mad scientist specializing in hallucinogenic devices. But old Cornelius has died and, sensing the imminent gravitational collapse of late sixties society as its contradictions and conflicts grow untenable, Jerry decides it is time to participate in a raid on his former home by a cabal of dodgy businessmen and the rapacious IT maverick Miss Brunner. While his companions' target is a reel of microfilm containing the enigmas of his father's terminal project, Jerry's intentions lead to a confrontation with his narcotically challenged brother Frank and a tragic reunion with Catherine. A symbol of Swinging London, Jerry inhabits a quantum world where nothing is true and everything is permitted. An agent of chaos continually defecting between the forces of order and entropy, Jerry is a cool counter-cultural anti-hero, a needle gun in his palm, a flippant quip on his lips. Standing between Bester's flawed, garish supermen and cyberpunk's studied hipsters, Jerry is the spirit of New Wave SF, his adventures first appearing in Moorcock's New Worlds magazine. Cornelius is also an avatar of the Eternal Champion, a figure who has numerous incarnations throughout the myriad parallel worlds of Moorcock's multiverse, the concept that links all the authors' fiction, from his classic heroic fantasies to his critically acclaimed social novels.

The Final Programme is the first of eight carnivalesque, anarchic books (and many short stories, some by other writers) to feature Jerry, his enemies and allies. It is a witty and exciting romp, whose progressively experimental sequels have non-linear structures that defy conventional approaches to plot. Those who enjoy exploring youth subculture will find that the dissenting Jerry Cornelius is as iconic as Hendrix, The Sex Pistols, William Burroughs or whichever other Zeitgeist-defining personage is the flavor of the last fifteen minutes.

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