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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.… (más)
A principios del siglo XXI el mundo, y más concretamente los Estados Unidos, vive inmerso en la segregación racial. Tanto negros como blancos se arman para protegerse, y pocos territorios en las ciudades son seguros. La familia Gottschalk, que detenta el monopolio de las armas, está encantada con la situación y procura que la escalada de violencia continúe, mientras sufre luchas internas por el poder. Matthew Flamen, periodista televisivo, vive pendiente de no perder su programa, que se ve continuamente saboteado. Y como es consciente de que en una época donde a nadie le importa nada aparte de sí mismo, las noticias no interesan, persigue un gran reportaje de impacto que garantice su puesto.
Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
FÜR CHIP - die einzige Person, die ich kenne, die wirklich einen Zickzackorbit fliegen kann.
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Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In welchem Zustand also war die Welt an diesem Morgen?
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
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Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Plötzlich spitzte sie die Lippen und warf ihm eine Kußhand zu, ehe sie die Verbindung mit schelmischem Grinsen unterbrach.
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.
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La familia Gottschalk, que detenta el monopolio de las armas, está encantada con la situación y procura que la escalada de violencia continúe, mientras sufre luchas internas por el poder.
Matthew Flamen, periodista televisivo, vive pendiente de no perder su programa, que se ve continuamente saboteado. Y como es consciente de que en una época donde a nadie le importa nada aparte de sí mismo, las noticias no interesan, persigue un gran reportaje de impacto que garantice su puesto.