Books by John Brunner
John Brunner Biography & Notes
John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 - August 26, 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories.
He was born at Preston Crowmarsh in Oxfordshire, and went to school at Cheltenham. He wrote his first novel Galactic Storm at 17, under the name of Gill Hunt, but did not write full time until 1958. In the meantime, he served as an officer in the Royal Air Force, 1953 to 1955. He married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on July 12, 1958.
At first writing conventional space opera, he began to experiment with the novel form. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and is now considered a classic of the genre. The Jagged Orbit won the British SF Award in 1971.
Brunner's best-known work is perhaps 1975's The Shockwave Rider, in which he coined the term "worm", used to describe malicious software.
His pen names include: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott.
His health began to decline in the 1980s, and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986. He remarried, to Li Yi Tan, September 27, 1991, then died of a stroke in Glasgow, Scotland, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there.
He was born at Preston Crowmarsh in Oxfordshire, and went to school at Cheltenham. He wrote his first novel Galactic Storm at 17, under the name of Gill Hunt, but did not write full time until 1958. In the meantime, he served as an officer in the Royal Air Force, 1953 to 1955. He married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on July 12, 1958.
At first writing conventional space opera, he began to experiment with the novel form. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and is now considered a classic of the genre. The Jagged Orbit won the British SF Award in 1971.
Brunner's best-known work is perhaps 1975's The Shockwave Rider, in which he coined the term "worm", used to describe malicious software.
His pen names include: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott.
His health began to decline in the 1980s, and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986. He remarried, to Li Yi Tan, September 27, 1991, then died of a stroke in Glasgow, Scotland, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there.
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Bedlam Planet by John Brunner ( 1982)
A group of colonists come to the planet, Asgard, in the hope of discovering a paradise, but instead find harsh living conditions.
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Bedlam Planet; Science Fiction by John Brunner ( 1973) |
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Best of John Brunner by John Brunner, J. Haldeman ( 1988) |
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Catch a Falling Star by John Brunner ( 1982)
In a chaotic world of the future, Creohan fights to save Earth when he discovers that a star threatens to pass close to the planet.
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Children of the Thunder by John Brunner ( 1988) |
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The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner ( 1989) |
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The Crucible of Time by John Brunner ( 1988)
Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society.
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The Dramaturges of Yan by John Brunner ( 1982)
Gregory Chart attempts to stage a play based on the ancient myths of the planet Yan in hopes of discovering that world's mysterious secret.
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Good Men Do Nothing by John Brunner ( 1970) |
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The Great Steamboat Race by John Brunner ( 1983)
The captains of two famous steamboats fight to win a race on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis.
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The Infinitive of Go by John Brunner ( 1980) |
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John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction by John Brunner, Rudyard Kipling ( 1992)
A collection of the science fiction short stories of the Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling,
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Kipling's Fantasy Stories by Rudyard Kipling by John Brunner, Rudyard Kipling ( 1992)
One of the finest writers in the English language, Rudyard Kipling was the first British author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1907). From children's stories to adult romances, from tales of ordinary men and women to tales of the supernatural, the scope and breadth of his work has rarely been equalled. Kipling's mastery of his craft lies in his eye for telling detail. Whether he writes of an exotic land at the ends of the earth or of everyday England, of heaven or hell or anywhere in between, he brings it all home to the reader. This selection of his fantasy stories ranges from pre-history through mythology to the present" of the early 1900s, from England to Australia to India, from comedy to tragedy to simple human courage. Rudyard Kipling has tales to tell, and he tells them with a sure hand. They have been and continue to be an enduring delight and inspiration to many generations of readers and writers.
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Kipling's Science Fiction by John Brunner, Rudyard Kipling ( 1998) |
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The Long Result by John Brunner ( 1981) |
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A Maze of Stars by John Brunner ( 1991)
Human beings born and raised on the more than six hundred thousand stars in the vast Arm of Stars grow up unaware that they were put there by the Ship, the greatest feat of technology ever achieved.
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Muddle Earth by John Brunner ( 1993)
Rinpoche Gibbs wakes up in the twenty-fourth century and finds a world populated by weird characters, such as Pope Joan II, Sherlock Holmes and his Biker Street Irregulars, and others. By the author of A Maze of Stars. Original.
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The National Plan A Preliminary Assessment by John Brunner, Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain), Austen Harry Albu ( 1969) |
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The Necronomicon Selected Stories & Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab by John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, H. P. Lovecraft ( 1996) |
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New Settlement of Old Scores by John Brunner ( 1983) |
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Orbita Inestable/the Jagged Orbit by John Brunner ( 1985)
The world of 2014 is dominated by the Gottschalk weaponry combine, which sells all the arms used in the world's continual violent street fighting.
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A Plague on Both Your Causes by John Brunner ( 1969) |
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Quicksand:Science Fiction by John Brunner ( 1969) |
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The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling ( 1994)
Ten stories, each preceded by background information, by a time-honored storyteller and a pioneer of the science fiction genre explore time travel, sentient machines, alternative history, and other perennial science fiction themes. Original.
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The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner ( 1990)
What about this overcrowded land, how much more abuse from man can she stand? In the world imagined by John Brunner, Mother Earth has borne all that she can. The proliferation of environmental pollutants has caused an increase in parasites and genetic mutations.
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The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner ( 2003)
A world of the future where the government monitors people's actions through a national system.
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The Squares of the City by John Brunner ( 1991) |
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The Squares of the City by John Brunner ( 1965) |
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Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner ( 1988)
A Hugo-award-winning novel of over-population, poitical struggles, and warped ethics. "A quite marvelous projection in which John Brunner landscapes a future that seems the natural foster child of the present...Everything compounds into a fractured tomorrow--from the population explosion to Marshall McLuhan to the Territorial Imperative to the underground press..."--Kirkus Reviews
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The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner ( 1973) |
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Three Complete Novels Children of the Thunder/the Tides of Time/the Crucible of Time by John Brunner ( 1995)
Three works by an award-winning science fiction novelist include The Crucible of Time, Children of the Thunder, and The Tides of Time.
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The Tides of Time by John Brunner ( 1984)
Gene and Stacy seem normal when they return to Earth after a research mission in space, but they soon go into hiding, and when found, they no longer recognize the mission leaders.
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Times Without Number by John Brunner ( 1983) |
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Timescoop by John Brunner ( 1980) |
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Tomorrow May Be Even Worse by John Brunner, Arthur Thomson ( 1978) |
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Total Eclipse by John Brunner ( 1974) |
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The Webs of Everywhere by John Brunner ( 1983) |
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The Whole Man by John Brunner ( 1990) |
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