The Jagged Orbit
by:
John Brunner (author)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780441381227 (0441381227)
Publish date: July 1st 1976
Publisher: Ace Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I cannot recall what I was reading at the time, but the gist of it was that John Brunner wrote four challenging and experimental novels in the late 60s/early 70s. Of those four, I had read three and considered two of them to be among my top 20 of all time (Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up; th...
A reasonably good near-future dystopia, where racial violence, stoked by unscrupulous weapons manufacturers, is gradually causing society to come apart at the seams. Some of the ideas are nice, but it is starting to feel rather dated, and the ending is an unsatisfying deus ex machina. If you want to...
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