by John Brunner · MR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427009332
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In 'The Jagged Orbit' by John Brunner, the reader is immersed in a 21st-century American society marked by racial segregation and violence. Powerful families, like the Gottschalks, benefit from the chaos while a television journalist, Matthew Flamen, struggles to keep his program afloat. Amid this bleak landscape, Flamen seeks a shocking story that will secure his position in a world where indifference seems to be the norm. This dystopian science fiction novel offers a critical look at a disturbing future and raises questions about power, race, and survival in a society on the brink of collapse.
John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
