The Jagged Orbit

Name: The Jagged Orbit
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John Brunner(Author)

Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (Publisher)

Published on 1. April 2014

345 pages

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Intro
Dedication
Chapter One - Put Yourself in my Place
Chapter - Two - Chapter One Continued
Chapter - Three Spoolpigeon
Chapter Four - Q. Who was that Serpent I Saw you with Last Night? A. that was no Serpent, that was my Current Mistress who Happens to be a Pythoness
Chapter Five - Making Readeth a Full Man, Saving your Bacon's Presence
Chapter Six - The Where it's at and The Whyfore it Should be There
Chapter Seven - (This Space Reserved for Advertising)
Chapter Eight - What's it Like out There?
Chapter Nine - Patient Making a Highly Successful Adjustment
Chapter Ten - The Blacker the Bury the Neater the Ruse
Chapter Eleven - How not to Get Places in a Hurry
Chapter Twelve - Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch
Chapter Thirteen - Normal Service is Unlikely to be Restored
Chapter Fourteen - An Object Lesson Concerning a very Important Subject
Chapter Fifteen - It's a Common Platitude that Knowledge is Neutral but Every now and then it would be Useful if it were on your Side Rather than Theirs
Chapter Sixteen - The Point at which the Outlay on Maintenance begins to Exceed the Cost of Changing to a Replacement
Chapter Seventeen - If "Media" is the Plural of "Medium" the Question is: How many of them are Fraudulent?
Chapter Eighteen - The Drawbacks of an Invention Intended for a Rational Species
Chapter Nineteen - Thought Passing Repeatedly through The Head of Morton Lenigo, Fifth Generation Expatriate West Indian, Fourth Generation British Subject, Third Generation Pan-Melanist, while in Transit Across the Atlantic after Securing a Visa for The United States by Pulling The String which Led to The Kneeblank City Government of Detroit Threatening to withdraw their Water Taxes and install an Atmospheric Condensation Plant
Chapter Twenty - You were Saying
Chapter Twenty-One - Close the Doors, They're coming in the Windows!
Chapter Twenty-Two - The Morton Lenigo Story Part Ten Thousand (Approximately)
Chapter Twenty-Three - Three Kinds of People in The World
Chapter Twenty-four - The One-Girl underground Movement
Chapter Twenty-Five - A Model Citizen and a Client Greatly Valued by his Area Gottschalk
Chapter Twenty-Six - The Assassination of the Marat/De Sade by the inmates of the Asylum At 2014
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Thought Passing Repeatedly through the mind of Arthur J. Hoddinott, United States Immigration Service Officer, on duty at Kennedy International Airport when Morton Lenigo Arrived
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Proof Positive for the Assertion that it is not Impossible for a Gutter to Run at Penthouse Level
Chapter Twenty-Nine - It is one thing to Talk Glibly about the Determinism of History but another thing altogether to find oneself caught up in Historic Forces like a Dead Leaf on The Gale
Chapter Thirty - I am become as A God, and see all that Passes with The Eye of An Eagle
Chapter Thirty-One - Excerpt From a Reliable Glossary of Twenty-First Century Usage
Chapter Thirty-two - Hiss, Hers and Whose?
Chapter Thirty-Three - For Future Reference
Chapter Thirty-Four - It's okay to be a Responsible Member of Society if only you know what you're going to be held Responsible For
Chapter Thirty-Five - A Fiasco is a Bottle in which Italian Wine is Sold
Chapter Thirty-Six - An Obligation is like A Muscle: When you Contract it it gets Bigger and Harder
Chapter Thirty-Seven - Mannered Script, Found on a Bottle
Chapter Thirty-Eight - If You're Stuck with a Fiasco You Might as well Make Spectacles of Yourselves so that at Least You'll Have Some Glasses to Pour the Contents Into
Chapter Thirty-Nine - Thought Passing Repeatedly through the Mind of Captain Gordon K. Lorimer on his way Home after Supervising the afternoon Exercise of the Citizens' Defense Group to which Lionel Prior Belongs
Chapter Forty - The Flight of the Spoolpigeon
Chapter Forty-One - I Speak with the Tongues of Men and of Angels and Have Not Charity
Chapter Forty-Two - Perihelion
Chapter Forty-Three - A Remarkable Instance on the Public Scale of the Real-Life Implementation of Xavier Conroy's Dictum about the Perfectly Defended Man
Chapter Forty-Four - A Firm Decision to Go into the Wagon-Fixing Business in a Big Way
Chapter Forty-Five - The Sound of a Code Being Broken is Usually the Same as that of Somebody Snapping his Fingers
Chapter Forty-Six - Why's, After the Event
Chapter Forty-Seven - Plea of Insanity
Chapter Forty-Eight - An All-Stations From Ism
Chapter Forty-Nine - If you're Afraid of the Dark you can Always Carry a Flashlight but there's No Cheap Portable Protection Against Loneliness
Chapter Fifty - The Graph is Always Greener where the Desert Blossoms Like a Rose
Chapter Fifty-One - If your Number comes up then your Number comes up and that's all There is to it so what's the use of Worrying that's what I Always Say
Chapter Fifty-Two - Reprinted From the Manchester Guardian of 11th January 1968
Chapter Fifty-Three - Assumption Concerning the Foregoing Made for the Purposes of This Story
Chapter Fifty-Four - Division Street, Earth
Chapter Fifty-Five - Business as Usual, More or Less
Chapter Fifty-Six - Press Conference Given by the Successor of the Last Chief Executive Capable of Spanning the Credibility Gap without Splitting his Pants
Chapter Fifty-Seven - Picking up the Pieces
Chapter Fifty-Eight - A Long Way in Both Space and Time From Basin Street the Celebrated Locus of Intersection between Persons of Unequal Epidermal Pigmentation
Chapter Fifty-Nine - Reprinted From the Manchester Guardian of 2nd March 1968
Chapter Sixty - Assumption Concerning the Foregoing Made for the Purposes of This Story
Chapter Sixty-One - A Riddle is a Kind of Sieve
Chapter Sixty-Two - The Proximate Cause of a Federal Directive in Pursuance of which Thirty-Three Internal Security Maintenance Operatives were Downgraded or Dishonorably Dismissed
Chapter Sixty-Three - Longer Hours and Lower Pay
Chapter Sixty-Four - Reprinted From the Manchester Guardian of 4th March 1968
Chapter Sixty-Five - Assumption Concerning the "Massive Effort" Referred to in the Foregoing Made for the Purposes of This Story
Chapter Sixty-Six - The Mills of God Grind Slow but the Mills of Man Seem all too Frequently not to Grind at all Regardless of How Often They Spin on Their Axes
Chapter Sixty-Seven - An Opinion Unrepentantly held by Xavier Conroy Despite Repeated Attacks on his Standpoint by (Among Many Other Notable Authorities) Elias Mogshack
Chapter Sixty-Eight - The Line Dividing Day From Night on Earth or any other Planet or Satellite is Technically Known as "The Terminator"
Chapter Sixty-Nine - Why the Central Queens Tunnel of the Rapitrans System was out of Action From just before Dawn Until after Midday
Chapter Seventy - Life's Little Irritations
Chapter Seventy-One - Reprinted From the London Observer of 10th March 1968
Chapter Seventy-Two - Assumption Concerning the Foregoing Made for the Purposes of This Story
Chapter Seventy-Three - In Accordance with a Computerized Recommendation about How Best to Enlist the Cooperation of a Notoriously Thorny Personality
Chapter Seventy-Four - No Entry
Chapter Seventy-Five - Caution and Precaution Unequal and Opposite
Chapter Seventy-Six - Q. Who was that grunch I Saw you with Last Night? A. that was no Grunch but the Eggplant Over There
Chapter Seventy-Seven - One Keeps Going Somehow
Chapter Seventy-Eight - No, of Course Logorrhea isn't what Happens when you Break a Log-Jam but the Result is Pretty Much the Same for Anyone Who's in the Way
Chapter Seventy-Nine - Reprinted From The Manchester Guardian of 13th March 1968
Chapter Eighty - Assumption Concerning the ForeGoing Made for the Purposes of This Story
Chapter Eighty-One - The Meaning of this Unwarranted Intrusion
Chapter Eighty-Two - Motion Passed by Seventeen Votes to Two at a Conference Held over a Secure Comweb Link between Representatives of All the Major Kneeblank Enclaves in North America with the Exception of Blackbury
Chapter Eighty-Three - Twenty-First Century Usage so New as not yet to have been Incorporated in any Recognized Glossary but Sufficiently Common to have come Orally to the Attention of a Number of Lexicographers
Chapter Eighty-Four - One Knee Sprained, one Time Badly out of Joint
Chapter Eighty-Five - Reprinted From the London Observer of 24th March 1968
Chapter Eighty-Six - Assumption Concerning the Foregoing Made for the Purposes of This Story
Chapter Eighty-Seven - Confusion Worse Confounded
Chapter Eighty-Eight - From: Robert Gottschalk to: Anthony Gottschalk Urgent and Secret
Chapter Eighty-Nine - Drawing a Blank While Looking for a Knee
Chapter Ninety - Diagnosis
Chapter Ninety-One - The Genesis of System C Integrated Weaponry
Chapter Ninety-Two - Specifications of System C Integrated Weaponry (Mark V and Final)
Chapter Ninety-Three - A Good Point
Chapter Ninety-Four - We've Been Around for about Two Million Years and the Dinosaurs Flourished for about Ninety Million so we may with Luck Have Quite a Long Way to Go
Chapter Ninety-Five - This Way to the Digress
Chapter Ninety-Six - A Sprained Knee Requires Only Bandages But a Broken Leg Needs Splints
Chapter Ninety-Seven - Backtrack
Chapter Ninety-Eight - Far from being Extraordinary, the Idiot Savant who can Perform Remarkable Feats of Mentation without Knowing Either how he does them or what the Consequences are Likely to be is Excessively Typical of the Species Man
Chapter Ninety-Nine - Put Myself in your Place
Chapter One Hundred - Chapter Ninety-Nine Continued

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