(29) WHILE THE BALANCE OF HIS MIND WAS DISTURBED
(30) DÉFENSE D’ENTRER
(31) UNTO US A CHILD
(32) THE COOL AND DETACHED VIEW
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(1) THE GUILT-EDGED SECURITY
(2) THE DEAD HAND OF THE PAST
(3) AFTER ONE DECADE
(4) ROOMIE NATION
(5) HEAR HEAR
(6) AUCTION BLOCK FOR ME
(7) ARMS AND IDLENESS
(8) THE CAMEL’S BACK
(9) DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF
(10) DUE PROCESS
(11) THE SOUND OF FALLING ROCK
(12) IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE AUTOMATIC BUT ACTUALLY YOU HAVE TO PRESS THIS BUTTON
(13) MULTIPLY BY A MILLION
(14) THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB
(15) DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT
(16) THE REVISED VERSION
(17) TIMESCALES
(18) THE WALLS OF TROY
(19) SEMPER ALIQUID NOVI
(20) THE SHADOW OF GRANDFATHER LOA
(21) MORE HASTE
(22) THE PRICE OF ADMISSION
(23) HE STUCK IN HIS THUMB
(24) THIS SCENE NOT SHIFTED
(25) DADDY OF THEM ALL
(26) HERE COMES A CHOPPER
(27) MANSCAPE
(28) FROM HERE ON DOWN IT’S UPHILL ALL THE WAY
(29) I BEG TO REPORT
(30) TURN HER ON AND LET HER ROLL
(31) GROUNDWORK
(32) FIRST WITH THE NEWS
(33) GOT IT AND GONE
(34) THERE LIVES MORE FAITH IN HONEST DOUBT
(35) TO AWAIT COLLECTION
(36) MAKESHIFT
(37) STORAGE
(38) NOT FOR SALE BUT CAN BE HAD ON APPLICATION
(39) BETTER TO BE A VOLCANO
(40) OF THE GREATEST SIGNIFICANCE
(41) SEWN ON WITH NEEDLE AND THREAD
(42) AND SAY WHICH SEED WILL GROW
About the Author
Also by John Brunner
Praise for Stand on Zanzibar
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THE INNIS MODE
There is nothing wilful or arbitrary about the Innis mode of expression. Were it to be translated into perspective prose, it would not only require huge space, but the insight into the modes of interplay among forms of organisation would also be lost. Innis sacrificed point of view and prestige to his sense of the urgent need for insight. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge. When he interrelates the development of the steam press with “the consolidation of the vernaculars” and the rise of nationalism and revolution he is not reporting anybody’s point of view, least of all his own. He is setting up a mosaic configuration or galaxy for insight … Innis makes no effort to “spell out” the interrelations between the components in his galaxy. He offers no consumer packages in his later work, but only do-it-yourself kits.
—Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy
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SCANALYZE MY NAME
Stock cue SOUND: “Presenting SCANALYZER, Engrelay Satelserv’s unique thrice-per-day study of the big big scene, the INdepth INdependent INmediate INterface between you and your world!”
Stock cue VISUAL: cliptage, splitscreen, cut in bridge-melder, Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere depthunder (today MAMP, Mid-Atlantic Mining Project), spaceover (today freefly-suiting), transiting (today Simplon Acceleratube), digging (today as every day homimage with autoshout).
Autoshout cue: “It’s happening it’s happening! SCANALYZER SCANALYZER SCANALYZER SCANALYZER SCANALYZER SCANALYZER—”
Stock cue VISUAL: cliptage, wholescreen, planet Earth turning jerk-jerk-jerk and holding meridians for GMT, EST, PCT, Pacific Conflict Zone Time.
Live cue SOUND: “And it’s six poppa-momma for the happening people keeping it straight and steady on that old Greenwich Mean Time—how mean can time get, you tell me, hm? Zee for zero, bee for base, counting down to one after ess ee eks—sorree—ess EYE eks! We know what’s happening happening HAPPENING but that piece of the big big scene is strictly up to you, Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere—or Mr. and Miss, or Miss and Miss, or Mister and Mister, take your pick, hah-hah! Counting down to one after one poppa-momma for that good old Eastern Standard tie-yum, one after ten anti-matter for the Pacific Coast, and for all of you fighting the good fight in lonely midocean one after seven anti-matter—PIPS!”
Clock cue: 5 × 1-sec. countdown pips on G in alt, minute signal on C in alt.
Plug cue: “No time like the present for things to happen in, no better way to keep time straight and steady than by the signal from General Technics’ critonium clock, so accuright it serves to judge the stars.”
Script cue VISUAL: cliptage, splitscreen, excerpts from day’s news.
Live cue SOUND: “And no better way to keep abreast—pardon—than with SCANALYZER!”
Cut autoshout cue. (If they haven’t made it by this time they’ve switched off.)
Plug cue: “SCANALYZER is the one single, the ONLY study of the news in depth that’s processed by General Technics’ famed computer Shalmaneser, who sees all, hears all, knows all save only that which YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, wish to keep to yourselves.”
Script cue: the happening world.
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READ THE DIRECTIONS
For toDAY third of MAY twenty-TEN ManhatTEN reports mild spring-type weather under the Fuller Dome. Ditto on the General Technics Plaza.
But Shalmaneser is a Micryogenic® computer bathed in liquid helium and it’s cold in his vault.