Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-85031-026-1 Originally published 1971 Preceded by The Final Programme Country United Kingdom | Series Jerry Cornelius Pages 256 pp OCLC 446616 Genre Literary fiction | |
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Followed by The English Assassin: A Romance of Entropy Similar Michael Moorcock books, Cornelius books, Science Fiction books | ||
A Cure for Cancer is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, first published in London 1971 by Allison and Busby. The book is part of Moorcock's long-running Jerry Cornelius series.
Contents
The second novel of the sequence is essentially a collage of absurdist vignettes, many of which first appeared in an eclectic range of British and American magazines.
There has always been a cure for cancer
Plot
Jerry inhabits a world at war with itself and, armed only with an occasional "vibragun" appears to fight "against history" for the freedom of "randomness" against the straitlaced conventions exemplified by his brother Frank. In the end Jerry's quest, oblique as it is, is perhaps more artistic than political.
References
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