The Jagged Orbit (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: John Brunner
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: 2014
- Setting: New York, New York
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Twenty-first century, Mental illness, Organized crime, Hospitals, Computers, Arms or weapons
- Locales: New York, NY
The Plot
Spool-pigeon (investigative television reporter) Matthew Flamen is looking at two potential exposés. One involves the huge Gottschalk arms cartel, a Mafia-run company that seems to control the entire U.S. arms industry. The other concerns the Ginsberg State Hospital for the Mentally Maladjusted in New York, a vast institution overseen by psychiatrist Elias Mogshack.
The latter story interests Flamen more because his wife, Celia, is a patient at the Ginsberg hospital. Mogshacks treatment of mental disorders relies on drugging patients into an affectless,...
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