Rat race casualties

Usage examples of burnouts.

Thus far the dissidents—contemptuously called Burnouts by the City-dwellers—have been content to leave Mandala City and found their own commune-like “kingdoms.

Rising tensions between the Burnouts and the City dwellers have spurred development of weapons, formation of a militia, and pressure for a pre-emptive strike against the Burnouts from the more hawkish factions of the Mandala City government.

No surprise, as his father, Paul, is a preacher of Symmology, respected by the City dwellers and tolerated by the Burnouts, with whom he does missionary work.

It's his transceiver that enables him to talk to God, and, as all the various plots unfold—City versus Earthies, City versus Burnouts, Burnouts versus Earthies—God sees all, and God talks back.

It also has some loving descriptions of interesting science (Wharton is a physicist), a few puzzles to chew on along the way (what are the Burnouts up to?

He was a night person, used to the clubs, bars, and vestibules of the starscrapers, delivering his poet sermons to the ship crew burnouts, bluesensers, stimmed-out wasters, and mercenaries who sprawled throughout the lower floors of the starscrapers.

The damage had veined through the body of the station, causing burnouts and overloads almost everywhere.

Picard could actually smell what was wrong—detect little burnouts here and there, with distinct scents of different grades of lubricant and circuitry.

Without the burnouts we might’ve done better helping Impeller, but you wouldn’t have known to come.

A query from Mitsubishi about burnouts of their five-inch displays in the first-class section of American N-22 widebodies.