ParacyclopsFor all the wonderful writers contributing to this shared-world anthology, it really reads like so many extra yards of the Jerry Cornelius novels. The best writing is by Hilary Bailey, who turned a lovely sentence.
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Oliver Arditi's review of The New Nature of the Catastrophe (Tale of the Eternal Champion, #9)
3/5: This book, an updated version of the much earlier The Nature of the catastrophe, is a collection of short stories featuring Jerry Cornelius, written by Moorcock and a number of other writers. Moorcock claims that he always intended JC to be a kind of common property—a fictional 'method' as much as a character. The other writers featured here took that up wholeheartedly, and it would be hard to distinguish their work from Moorcock's in a blind test. The method produces a particular sort of fiction, but I have to say that in a collection as large as this, it's quite hard to stay interested as...
John Griogair Bell
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