Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780575070523
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0575070528
Label: Gollancz
Manufacturer: Gollancz
Number Of Pages: 397
Publication Date: August 24, 2000
Publisher: Gollancz
Studio: Gollancz
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3 stars for the concepts, more like 2 for the actual narrative and, like, the writing. In some ways this is prescient - covering the fall-out from the 60s, racial tensions, an arms economy, the securitisation of daily life, the sometimes insidious hold of those responsible for guarding (and defining) our mental health, not to mention the impact of advertising on media. But all of this is rendered in that caricaturist, pulpish sci-fi that high-minded literary types (rightly) despise. Although using ...
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The is a surprisingly good book, it is well written and has a good plot.
The characters are all believable and likeable, they have flaws and act selfishly but all in a very real way.
The story moves very quickly from event to event, none of the events seem to be of huge importance but they gradually build giving the sense of the characters being pulled along by things outside their control.
The plot is strange, it is set in an extremely paranoid world where cynicism ...
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The Jagged Orbit comprises the third of a informally-bound group of four of Brunner's books (The Sheep Look Up, Zanzibar, Jagged Orbit and Shockwave Rider) and it is one of the most chilling.
In similar literary mode to Zanzibar and The Sheep Look up, the narrative flits between dialogues, monologues, newspaper articles and many other media, all the time creating a terrifyingly real backdrop for the bizzare and twisted world of Matthew Flammen, his schizoid wife, an in-patient who is more sane ...
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written thirty years ago Brunnerwriting style still setts the pages of this book alight. he puts his microscopic sight on a society that is in seemingly meltdown, arms dealers are fermenting war terroists are being reconginised by legitimate governments and the people that can not handle the worlds rapid changes are just thrown away on the junkpile of the world branded insane and dumped into institutions just to hide them. Brunner examines the world then with a scapel for a pen cuts to the heart of ...
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