As things turn out, Jerry discovers that "it's a tasty world". All who see the new creature fall quaking to their knees. When this is done, a radiantly charismatic hermaphroditic being emerges from the machinery. Jerry is sucked into the plans of Miss Brunner to create the perfect being by merging the bodies of Jerry and herself together. Set in a world less abstract and chaotic than depicted in the later volumes, it introduces Jerry Cornelius as a hip super agent playboy and follows his adventures as he attempts to subvert a plot by his disreputable brother Frank and Miss Brunner to build a super computer for nefarious ends. It was made into a 1973 film of the same name (directed by Robert Fuest), but Moorcock was critical of the version released on the screen. It was the first of his Jerry Cornelius series of novels and stories and was originally published in paperback in the US by Avon Books in 1968 then in London in hardback by Allison & Busby in October 1969. Moorcock has stated that publishers at the time considered it was "too freaky". Written in 1965 as the underground culture was beginning to emerge, it was not published for several years. The Final Programme is a novel by British science fiction and fantasy writer Michael Moorcock.
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