The Jagged Orbit
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 brilliant and 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 three decades on.
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John Brunner
John Kilian Houston Brunner (1934–1995) was a prolific British science fiction author.
He was perhaps the first science fiction author to predict the Internet and coined the term "worm" to descibe computer viruses.
John Brunner used several pen names: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt (with E. C. Tubb and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott.
Club of Rome Quartet
"Club of Rome Quartet" was a name given to a series of novels by John Brunner due to their thematic connection to the concerns raised by the actual Club of Rome in the 1972 report, The Limits to Growth, which detailed the consequences of unchecked economic growth on a finite planet
Club of Rome Quartet consists of 4 total books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
