As the editor of London's revolutionary New Worlds magazine in the
swinging sixties, Michael Moorcock has been credited with virtually
inventing modern Science Fiction: publishing such figures as Norman
Spinrad, Samuel R. Delany, Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard.
Moorcock's own literary accomplishments include his classic Mother
London, a romp through urban history conducted by psychic outsiders;
his comic Pyat quartet, in which a Jewish antisemite examines the
roots of the Nazi Holocaust; Behold The Man, the tale of a time
tourist who fills in for Christ on the cross; and of course the eternal
hero Elric, swordswinger, hellbringer and bestseller.
And now Moorcock's most audacious creation, Jerry Cornelius--assassin,
rock star, chronospy and maybe-Messiah--is back in Modem Times 2.0, a
time-twisting odyssey that connects 60s London with post-Obama America,
with stops in Palm Springs and Guantanamo. Modem Times 2.0 is Moorcock
at his most outrageously readable--a masterful mix of erudition and
subversion.
Plus: The non-fiction essay "My Londons" and an Outspoken Interview
with literature's authentic Lord of Misrule.