The New Nature of the Catastrophe

An anthology of Cornelius short stories by Michael Moorcock and others, edited by Langdon Jones and Moorcock, published July 1993. It was Volume 9 in “The Tale of the Eternal Champion” omnibus series published in the United Kingdom by Orion Books/Millennium.

Publishing History

• Hardcover, Millennium, xii+436 pp, ISBN: 1-85798-039-5, 1993, Cover by Mark Reeve
• Trade Paperback, Millennium, xii+436 pp, ISBN: 1-85798-040-9, 1993, Cover by Mark Reeve
• Mass Market Paperback, Orion, 544 pp, ISBN: 0-7528-0600-9, Mar. 1997, Cover by Mark Reeve

Stories

• Introduction (The New Nature of the Catastrophe)
• Introduction (The Nature of the Catastrophe)
• The Peking Junction
• The Delhi Division
• The Tank Trapeze
• The Ash Circus by M John Harrison
• The Firmament Theorem by Brian W Aldiss
• The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius: The English Assassin† by Moorcock and M John Harrison & Mal Dean and Richard Glyn Jones (comic strip)
• The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde by Norman Spinrad
• The Dodgem Decision
• The Nash Circuit by M John Harrison
• Lines of White on a Sullen Sea by Maxim Jakubowski
• The Anxiety in the Eyes of the Cricket by James Sallis
• The End of the Cycle by Langdon Jones
• The Nature of the Catastrophe
• The Sunset Perspective
• Sea Wolves
• Voortrekker
• The Flesh Circle by M John Harrison
• A Prayer to Men by Alex Krislov
• Dead Singers
• The Swastika Set-Up
• The Longford Cup
• The Entropy Circuit
• Interlude: Miss Brunner and Jerry by Giles Gordon
• The Repossession of Jerry Cornelius by John Clute (non-fiction)
• Niki Hoeky by Charles Partington
• Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson by Hilary Bailey
• The Entropy Tango (fragment) (song) by Michael Moorcock and Pete Pavli
• The Murderer's Song
• The Gangrene Collection
• The Roumanian Question
• Bruised Time by Simon Ings
• Epilogue: Jerry and Miss Brunner at the Beginning by Langdon Jones
• Jerry Cornelius: A Reader’s Guide by John Davey (non-fiction)

†The paperback edition dropped the graphic story and added All the Way Round Again as a final story.

See Also

• The Nature of the Catastrophe, Hutchinson, 1971

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