A Cure for Cancer

A Cure for Cancer

Dust-jacket from the first edition.
Author	Michael Moorcock
Language	English
Series	Jerry Cornelius
Genre	Literary Fiction
Published	1971 (Allison & Busby)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	256 pp
ISBN	0-85031-026-1
OCLC	446616
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ4.M8185 Cu PR6063.O59
Preceded by	The Final Programme
Followed by	The English Assassin

A Cure for Cancer is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, ^[1] first published in 6a Noel Street, London 1971 by Allison & Busby Ltd.. The book is part of Moorcock's long-running Jerry Cornelius series. ^[2]

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. ^[1]

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

1. "A Cure for Cancer - Michael Moorcock". www.complete-review.com. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
2. "Ralph Willett - Moorcock's Achievement and Promise in the Jerry Cornelius Before being published as a standalone novel, the story was serialized in the magazine New Worlds (which Moorcock also edited) between 1969 and 1970. Books". www.depauw.edu. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

Further reading

• "Internet Speculative Fiction Database" . Retrieved 16 December 2007.
• "Moorcock's Miscellany". Archived from the original on 13 November 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984–1998)". Archived from the original on 28 December 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2007.