History Literature / TheCorneliusChronicles

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the 1990s stories, "Baroness" Brunner becomes a blatant caricature of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.

Moorcock also made the character available to other writers, making Jerry a sort of open-source character nearly 40 years before WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere. Most of the non-Moorcock Cornelius works are harder to find; notable examples include Norman Spinrad's "The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" and Creator/{{Moebius}}'s ''Le garage hermétique de Jerry Cornelius'' (''The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius''). Other pieces (including some of the comic strips) have been compiled into the volume ''The Nature of the Catastrophe'' (1971, and not to be confused with the short story above).

* CoolGuns: Not real-world guns for once, but Jerry's [[FlechetteStorm needle gun]] and [[BrownNote vibragun.]]

Just to keep readers' lives interesting, different editions of short story compilations like ''The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius'' and ''The Nature of the Catastrophe'' have different contents. You can see those (and more non-Moorcock Cornelius story compilations) at the Wikiverse (a Michael Moorcook wiki) [[http://www.multiverse.org//index.php?title=Cornelius_(series) here.]]

* "Firing the Cathedral" (2002)
* "Pegging the President" (2018)

* {{Eagleland}}: Jerry journeys through a particularly demented Type 2 in ''A Cure For Cancer'', complete with BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins Indians and a GeneralRipper.

%%* EntropyAndChaosMagic

%%* ThePowerOfRock / MagicMusic

%%* TimeTravel

* "The Spencer Inheritance" (1997), which can be read [[http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=1116 here.]]

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* EntropyAndChaosMagic

* ThePowerOfRock / MagicMusic

* TimeTravel

* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: Featuring recurring character Una Persson, who varies between being bisexual and exclusively lesbian at different times and in different timelines.

* TangledFamilyTree: Oh, you have no ''[[http://www.multiverse.org//index.php?title=Category:Cornelius_Family idea]]''. Jerry is told about it by his mother in ''The Condition Of Muzak'' ("Incest on top a bloody incest, eh?"). It's quite likely that Jerry is in some way related to most of the series' other important characters.

* CoolCar: Several, though the best may be the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI in ''The English Assassin'', with jeweled controls and the ability to become [[AmphibiousAutomobile a boat, a minisub,]] [[FlyingAircraft or a jet.]] And it's pink too. How [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} FAB!]]

* CoolCar: Several, though the best may be the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI in ''The English Assassin'', with jeweled controls and [[AmphibiousAutomobile the ability to become a boat or a minisub.]] And it's pink too. How [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} FAB!]]

Quite possibly the strangest incarnation of Creator/MichaelMoorcock's "Eternal Champion", Jerry Cornelius is a hipper-than-hip secret agent/assassin who acts as [[OrderVersusChaos a needed force of chaos]] in the world. He travels through time, dies (and gets better), and [[TheLostLenore pines for his beloved sister.]] He's a KarmicTrickster. Or maybe a SadClown. Or a TimeLord. Or maybe he's just a seedy kid from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove Ladbroke Grove]] who has aspirations of being a jukebox hero.

Moorcock also made the character available to other writers, making Jerry a sort of open-source character nearly 40 years before WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere. Most of the non-Moorcock Cornelius works are harder to find; notable examples include Norman Spinrad's "The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" and Creator/{{Moebius}}' ''Le garage hermétique de Jerry Cornelius'' (''The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius''). Other pieces (including some of the comic strips) have been compiled into the volume ''The Nature of the Catastrophe'' (1971, and not to be confused with the short story above).

* ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' (aka ''Gold Diggers of '77'', 1975), a crossover with the SexPistols film of the same name.

* ''The Final Programme'' (1965), adapted to film in 1973 (retitled ''The Last Days of Man on Earth'' for American audiences), directed by Robert Fuest and starring Jon Finch as Jerry.

* AVeryBritishChristmas: In ''The Condition of Muzak.''

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the 1990s stories, "Baroness" Brunner becomes a blatant caricature of MargaretThatcher.