The Jagged Orbit

John Brunner

Original title: The jagged orbit

first published 1969 Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 1993 paperback 471 pages

Summer in 2014. Morning. The City Council of Washington, D.C. ignores yet another request to remove the paint from the facade of the Black House. Lyla Clay, pythoness, finds her apartment house comweb stuffed with advertising satches that will overload her garbage drain. Matthew Flamen, the last of the spoolpigeons, wakes up after a nightmare in which every item he wanted to air on his show comped out as unusable. Wa...

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The Jagged Orbit paperback · 2000 · Gollancz · 397 pages · 9780575070523
Ein irrer Orbit paperback · 1993 · Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG · 471 pages
The Jagged Orbit paperback · 1984 · DAW · 9780879979171
The Jagged Orbit edition · 1976 · Ace Books · 400 pages · 9780441381227
The jagged orbit paperback · 1972 · Arrow Books Ltd. · 397 pages
The jagged orbit edition · 1969 · Ace Books · 343 pages

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