The Final Programme

The Final Programme is the first novel in Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius quartet, and the only one with a narrative that might be described as linear. It’s also as mad as cheese. Any attempt to précis this can only make one sound more than slightly unhinged, so I won’t bother. Anyway, it’s terrific fun and the sort of thing Ian Fleming might have written had he subscribed to the values of the counterculture and developed a taste for psychotropic drugs. A surreal and playfully subversive mashup of mid-sixties pop culture and media obsessions: James Bond and beat groups, drug-crazed youth, free love, dreams of affluence, and nightmares of Armageddon. Wonderfully inventive and brimming with intoxicated energy this book is very much of show more its time but also, particularly in its casual treatment of bisexuality and its gender-bending themes, some way ahead of it. It’s an exhilarating depiction of a world gone mad; and that, after all, is a theme that never goes out of date. show less

London, England. The late 1960s. Jerry Cornelius has it all - money, talent, fame, women, helicopters, drugs... And yet, he still wants. He gets himself in with a band of thieves who want to steal secrets to mind control techniques from Jerry's father's house. In return for helping them breach the house's defenses, he wants his sister alive and his brother dead. And yet, he still wants. Along the way, he meets Miss Brunner - a strangely compelling woman with a mind compatible with his own and a penchant for losing associates. She offers to build the "Final Program". The ultimate program. Jerry tut-tuts her, and yet she keeps showing up - inviting him, cajoling him, seducing him, transfixing him... Until the program is complete, and the show more end of the world is nigh.

This is a bizarre book on many levels. The parallels with the Elric storyline are obvious and obviously intentional. There are just so many things left unexplained in the book. What, exactly, does Miss Brunner do with her associates? What, exactly, does Jerry do to the people he "feeds" off of? What happened to people to cause them to form these group minds? What drugs was Moorcock on when he wrote this book? Was this one of the ones that he wrote in a single sitting? Why is it important that Corn is a hermaphrodite?

So many questions... show less

That was a strange one. Kind of like one of those weird 70's spy series, 'Man from Uncle' or 'Sapphire and Steel' which i think involved time travel... Anyway this has some of that, shoot-outs, strange technologies, pursuits etc.
One of the oddest things is that sometimes you can't tell whether to take things literally or figuratively.
Its just got a really nice writing style and good ideas.

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