Modem Times 2.0 eBook

As the editor of London’s revolutionaryNew 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 classicMother London, a romp through urban history conducted by psychic outsiders; his comicPyat 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 heroElric, swordswinger, hellbringer and bestseller.

And now Moorcock’s most audacious creation, Jerry Cornelius—assassin, rock star, chronospy and maybe-Messiah—is back inModem 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 authenticLord of Misrule.