
The Jagged Orbit
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In The Jagged Orbit, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create Stand on Zanzibar, takes a long, hard, disturbing, and hilarious look at the near and not-so-distant future. Catastrophic changes due to rampant drug abuse, uncontrolled violence, high-level government corruption, inhumane treatment of the too-readily defined "insane," and the accompanying collapse of the social order are wreaking havoc on the world we recognize and turning it into a reality we must fear and hope to avoid. Brunner tells a spine-chilling tale of where the world could possibly go that is all too believable and real for our comfort.
"For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being reintroduced. For readers familiar with his vision, it is a chance to reexamine his thoughtful worlds and words. For new readers, Brunner's work proves itself the very definition of timeless.
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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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