Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 78 (p. 284)
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The Jagged Orbit
Nebula Award Finalist:Mankind has been reduced to slavery by technology and surveillance, in this near-future novel from the author of Stand on Zanzibar. 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.
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 78, “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 ” (p. 282)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 51, “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” (p. 163)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 47, “Plea of Insanity” (p. 146)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 46, “Why’s, After the Event” (p. 143)
“The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.”
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 45 (p. 135; chapter title)
“Like all neo-puritans you have a mind like an open drain.”
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 44, “A Firm Decision to Go Into the Wagon-Fixing Business in a Big Way” (p. 132)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 34 (p. 100; chapter title)
“If “media” is the plural of “medium” the question is: how many of them are fraudulent?”
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 17 (p. 57; chapter title)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 15 (p. 49)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 15 (p. 49; chapter title)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 6, “The Where It’s At and the Whyfore It Should Be There” (p. 26)
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 10)
“So what shape was the world in this morning? Even flatter than yesterday.”
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 9)
