“The sound of shutters going up around her mind, armored against anything short of a nuke, was very nearly audible in the room.”

— John Brunner , book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 47, “Plea of Insanity” (p. 146)

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British author 1934–1995

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