Up from the ocean depths comes the jet-black caucasian transvestite champion. Resplendant in warpaint, wampum beads and silk suit by Cardin, armed only with a tomahawk and vibragun, he returns to the napalmed ruins of London to resurrect his sister and wrest from the disgusting Bishop Beesley and his formidable henchwomen the black box which has diffracted the cosmos and set the world spinning at super-speed towards its own final solution. Lock up your daughters, hide your stash, keep to the shadows.

JERRY CORNELIUS IS BACK.

Published by Quartet Books Limited 1976
First published by Allison & Busby Limited 1971
Copyright © 1971 by Michael Moorcock

Cover illustration by Patrick Woodruffe

Winner of the 1977 Guardian Fiction Prize

'The Condition of Muzak considers the process of living as a harlequinade and is, for me, a most moving summation... Here we move through Mr Moorcock's obsessions, the serials of Fantomas, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Arthurian legend, through chronos-zones - behold the pun! - to bi-sexuality, with a small sideswipe at Stanley Kubrick on the way. The realisation comes that Jerry is seeking sanctuary in different universes of Time in separate private mythologies. As indeed, is the implication, are we all.'
-TOM HUTCHINSON, THE TIMES

'One is struck by the singular fact that out of science fantasy or science fiction has emerged (J G Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut have similarly developed) a writer who has managed to supersede conventional science fantasy and yet make of traditional fiction something wholly new.'
- BARRY COLE, GUARDIAN

The Jerry Cornelius quartet consists of The Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak. The novels may be read in any order.

Cover illustration by Bill Sanderson.

First published in Great Britain by 
Allison and Busby Ltd 1977
First issued in Fontana 1978
© Michael Moorcock 1977