{{Short description|1971 novel by Michael Moorcock}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox book<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = A Cure for Cancer | title_orig = | translator = | image = Cure for cancer.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition. | author = Michael Moorcock | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = ''Jerry Cornelius'' | subject = | genre = Literary Fiction | published = 1971 (Allison & Busby) | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 256 pp | isbn = 0-85031-026-1 | dewey = 823/.9/14 | congress = PZ4.M8185 Cu PR6063.O59 | oclc = 446616 | preceded_by = The Final Programme | followed_by = The English Assassin }} '''''A Cure for Cancer''''' is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = A Cure for Cancer - Michael Moorcock|url=http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/moorcock/ccancer.htm|website=www.complete-review.com|access-date=2015-12-09}}</ref> first published in 6a Noel Street, London 1971 by Allison & Busby Ltd. The book is part of Moorcock's long-running Jerry Cornelius series.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ralph Willett - Moorcock's Achievement and Promise in the Jerry Cornelius Before being published as a standalone novel, the story was serialized in the magazine New Worlds (which Moorcock also edited) between 1969 and 1970. Books|url=http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/8/willett8art.htm|website=www.depauw.edu|access-date=2015-12-09}}</ref>
The second novel of the sequence is essentially a collage of absurdist vignettes, many of which first appeared in an eclectic range of British and American magazines.<ref name=":0" /> (Edited by Noble.)
== Plot == Jerry inhabits a world at war with itself and, armed only with an occasional "vibragun" appears to fight "against history" for the freedom of "randomness" against the straitlaced conventions exemplified by his brother Frank. In the end Jerry's quest, oblique as it is, is perhaps more artistic than political.
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== Further reading == * {{cite web|last=|first=|author-link=|title=Internet Speculative Fiction Database|work=|publisher=|date=|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?CUREFCNC1971|format=|doi=|accessdate=2007-12-16}} * {{cite web|title=Moorcock's Miscellany|url=http://www.multiverse.org/imagehive/v/bookcovers/books/mikebooks/album62|access-date =2007-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113043054/http://www.multiverse.org/imagehive/v/bookcovers/books/mikebooks/album62/|archive-date=13 November 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} * {{cite web|last=Brown|first=Charles N.|author-link=Charles N. Brown|author2=William G. Contento|title=The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984–1998)|url=http://www.locusmag.com/index/b341.htm#A4880.39|access-date=2007-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228174450/http://www.locusmag.com/index/b341.htm| archivedate= 28 December 2007|url-status= live}}
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