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Name: The Final Programme

Author: Michael Moorcock
Year: 1968
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Genres/categories: Science fiction, Fantasy

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Jerry Cornelius is a scientist, a rock star, and an assassin. He is the hippest adventurer of them all: tripping through a pop art nightmare in which kidnappings, murder, sex and drugs are a daily occurrence. Along with his savvy and ruthless partner-in-chaos, Miss Brunner, Cornelius is on a mission to control a revolutionary code for creating the ultimate human being, a modern messiah- the final programme.

The first book in the Cornelius Quartet is the groundbreaking introduction to the misadventures and vendettas of Jerry Cornelius, one of modern literature's most distinctive characters, the product of a bewildering post-modern culture, and an inspiration for generations of characters since.

"Michael Moorcock, rechazando las disputas de límites que han reducido la novela a una confusion de subgéneros en conflicto, recobra en estos cuatro volúmenes una vitalidad y una amplitud proteicas que pudieran llamarse dickensianas si no pertenecieran tan por completo a nustro tiempo volátil. En verdad, ninguna obra reciente de ficcion ha manejado mejor las contingencias vertiginosas de la imaginacion del medio siglo que esta brava arlequinada de juegos de identidad, realidades falsificadas, historia parodica, y un pobre y ordinario apocalipsis" (W.L. Webb, The Guardian).

"Moorcock ha creado una figura capaz de moverse a través de las versiones míticas de los problemas de hoy, sin intentar situarlas o situarse a sí mismo en contextos simplificados. Una ficcion semejante, en un mundo de imaginacion escasa, es un don necesario" (Harpers Bazaar)

Michael Moorcock nacio en Inglaterra, ha publicado más de 50 libros y fue animador principal de la célebre revista New Worlds, que introdujo el término "ficcion especulativa"; una literatura "moderna, coherente y vital".

En EL PROGRAMA FINAL, primera de una serie de cuatro novelas independientes, anticipa la herencia decepcionante y caotica de la década del 60, un dorado presente en el que todo parecía instantáneamente posible.
This book is part of the "Jerry Cornelius" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
A Cure for Cancer
First published 1969
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The English Assassin
First published 1972
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The Condition of Muzak
First published 1978
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