A Cure for Cancer is a novel by British fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock [1]. It is part of his long-running Jerry Cornelius series [2].The second novel of the sequence, [3], is essentially a collage of absurdist vignettes, many of which first appeared in an eclectic range of British and American magazines. The lurid blurb of the original edition [4] sets the scene in graphic terms: "Up from the ocean depths comes the jet-black caucasian transvestite champion.