The jagged orbit / by John Brunner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunner, John, 1934-1995.

Contributor:

Dillon, Leo, illustrator.

Dillon, Diane, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, English.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

343 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Book club edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ace Books, 1969.

Summary:

Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. He needs it to keep his audience, and his job. And there is no shortage of possibilities: the Gottschalk cartel is fomenting trouble among the knees in order to sell their latest armaments to the blanks; which ties in nicely with the fact that something big is brewing with the X Patriots; and it looks as if the inconceivable is about to happen and that one of Britain's most dangerous revolutionaries is going to be given a visa to enter America. And then there's the story that just falls into his lap. The one that suggests that the respected Director of the New York State Mental Hospital is a charlatan. John Brunner's scathing vision of a society disintegrating under the impact of violence, drugs, high-level corruption and the casual institutionalization of the 'insane' was a powerful and important statement in 1969. It remains a compelling and chilling tour de force.

Notes:

Cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.

First printing has gutter code "40K" on page 339, indicates an October 1969 printing.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 209377

OCLC:

1211922

Publisher Number:

02050 Science Fiction Book Club