The Men in the Jungle

by Norman Spinrad

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All his life, Fraden had been in control, had bent situations, conditions, people, to his own will. He had stood solidly, reaching out to change men and events, but had never been changed by them. He had been booted out of Greater New York, he had taken and lost the Asteroid Belt, and he was still the same Bart Fraden.But on Sangre... something had been done to him. He had been tampered with. For the first time in his life, Bart Fraden felt himself moved by forces beyond his conscious show more control. Had he changed Sangre? Or had the planet changed him?For the first time in his life, Bart Fraden was afraid. show less

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An odd book in which the protagonist -- a gangster cum revolutionary -- is forced, or so he thinks, to dehumanise himself further and further in order to survive. It is not so much about the ends versus the means as it is about whether the game is worth playing at all. The setting is of the torture porn variety, and I suspect Spinrad was trying to write The Iron Dream when he wrote this. I think that book makes Spinrad's point better, and that he should try to let this one go quietly out of print.
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Bert Fraden n'avait plus qu'à se trouver une bonne petite planète indépendante, avec un potentiel révolutionnaire suffisant pour qu'un type un peu marie puisse renverser le gouverne-ment local et instaurer le sien à la place. Ensuite, il se la coulerait douce des siècles durant en compagnie de la splendide Sophia O'Hara. SE seule erreur fut de choisir Sangre, la planète aux mille souffrances : tortures, terreur, cannibalisme, élevage de chair humaine. Ce fut une drôle de révolution !

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Barber, Thomas (Cover artist)
Barber, Thomas (Cover artist)
Kiesow, Ulrich (Translator)
Pétris, Michel (Translator)
Prezio, Victor (Cover artist)
Rey, Luis (Cover illustration)
Siudmak, W. (Cover artist)
Wöllzenmüller, Franz (Cover designer)

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Canonical title*
Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes
Original title
The men in the jungle
Alternate titles*
Le chaos final
Original publication date
1967
People/Characters*
Bart Fraden; Willem Vanderling; Sophia O'Hara; Moro; Lamar Gomez; Bruder Theodore (show all 8); Olnay; Guilder
Important places*
Sangre
Dedication
For Harlan Ellison - The Dangerous Vision that got away...
First words
Bart Fraden sat loosely on the edge of the desk, a strange mixture of tension and repose, like a hunting cat at rest.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Sackcloth and ashes never did become you," she said with a wry, knowing smile as the ship lurched, began to break orbit. "Back to business as usual, eh, Peerless Leader? Fun and games! Fun and games!"
Publisher's editor*
Alpers, Hans Joachim
Original language*
Englisch
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Genres
Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
LCC
PZ4 .S756Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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