An Outline ;

"Meet Mr. Murphy" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Stomach Rhythms Not All Rhumbas" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"'S a House, Darling" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"The Phantom Captain" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"What Is a House?" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Teleology" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"We Call It 'Earth'" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"'E=Mc2'=Mrs. Murphy's Horse Power" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Dollarability" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Primary Motivations of Man: Fear and Longing" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Genius and Talent" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Patrons of Art: Death and Life" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Span-spinning from Abstract Thought to Physical Science" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Dogmatic Toll Takers; Detour via the Northwest Spiral; Triangles and Squares" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"The 2000-Year Streamlining of Society" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"The Zero Hour" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Baby Industry Is Kidnapped" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Longing Crosses the Sea" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Machinery Follows Longing and Carves a Trend Pattern" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"The Warehouse Era" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Not in Vain Did They Die" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Enter Alloy: Exit Rust" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Ford Consolidates the Scientific Emergence" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Trick Balance Sheet" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Ecoballistics: Booms Boomerang" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Speculation; Introducing the Mechanical Stock Exchange" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"24 Hour, Year Round, World Wide Referendum Service: True Credit Amplification" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"The Scientific Segregation of Scarcity and Plenty" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Universal Language" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Ephemeralization" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Science and Industry 'Take Off' as the Boys 'Get Down' to Business" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Flimsy Fabric of the Abstract Monopolies" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Throwing in the Patented Sponge" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Scrap--Coup d'État of the Random Element" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Scientific Dwelling Service" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"The Nine 'Chains'" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Jones and the X-ian" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Resolved to Resolve" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Anthem" by R.Buckminster Fuller.

"An original and stimulating adventure story for the mind, Nine Chains to the Moon exhibits the unique daring of Mr. Fuller's ideas which have led to the invention of his Geodesic dome and to other revolutionary results of his Dymaxion principles in design, architecture, and engineering. Mr. Fuller debunks (but always shows what is true) the science of geometry, our conception of good architecture, our approach to the study of economic problems, our use of words, and many other beliefs most of us accept as the truth.

"The title, Nine Chains to the Moon , is meant to encourage and stimulate the broadest attitude toward thought. If, in imagination, all the people of the world were to stand upon one another's shoulders, they would make nine complete chains between the earth and the moon. And if it is not so far to the limits of the moon, then it is not so far to the limits of the universe -- whatever, whenever, or wherever they may be. Hence we must adjust our thoughts, the author argues, only to the limits of the universe itself." [jacket blurb, US pbk, March 1963]

"Essential reading." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Highly recommended.