Brunner
was an
officer in the Royal Air Force, 1953-55. After a few quick employments
following the military, John became a professional writer in 1958,
augmenting income from Science Fiction novels with song writing and
poetry.
Galactic Storm (as Gill
Hunt)
The Threshold of Eternity
The Brink
Echo in the Skull/Give Warning to the World
The Hundredth Millennium/Catch a Falling Star
There
was a new star in the sky—another sun heading directly for the
Solar System on a collision orbit. It meant the end fo the world!
Creohan, who made the
discovery, realized that in a few short years
the oceans would boil, the forests and cities would be engulfed in
flame, and life would be scorched from the surface of the world. But
Creohan also knew that somewhere among the accumulated lore of 100,000
years of civilization ther would be the scientific knowledge that would
even turn a star aside.
But finding that knowledge
turned out to be a nightmare. For
none of the decadent people of the 100th Millennium would listen to
him; thus, one man alone sets forth on a quest to rescue a world.
The World Swappers
The Atlantic Abomination
Sanctuary in the Sky
The Skynappers
Slavers of Space/Into the Slave Nebula
It
was carnival time on Earth. Prosperity was at its peak; science had
triumphed over environment: all human needs were taken care of by
computers, robots and androids. There was nothing left for humans to do
but enjoy themselves ... to seek pleasure where they found it, without
inhibitions and without thinking the price.
Then an android died -- in a
senseless, brutal murder. And young Derry
Horn was shocked out of his boredom and alienation. His life of flabby
ease had not prepared him for a fantastically dangerous mission to
outlying, primitive stars -- but now, at last, he had a reason for
living. And even when he found himself a prisoner of ruthless slavers,
even when he learned the shocking truth about what the androids really
were and where they came from ... even when he saw all the laws of the
orderly, civilized universe he knew turned upside-down and inside-out
... he fought on. For that universe had to be shattered and reborn --
even if Derry Horn and the Earth he had irrevocably left behind died in
the process!
Meeting at Infinity
Where
world lines crosss... Allyn Vage was once a
beautiful woman, but due to an accident—which may
have been a murder attempt—she was now a hopeless cripple, burned and
disfigured, and without the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and
touch. When they brought her to Jome Knard, that noted physician had no
choice but to employ a certain apparently miraculous device,
incomprehensible even to him, to keep her immobile body alive and to
restore and regulate her sensory perception.
This strange machine had been
imported from a seemingly
primitive people on the world of Akkilmar. They had allowed it to be
exported, but there was something about it they couldn't—or
wouldn't—explain.
Little did either the doctor
or his
patient realize that between them they now become the lever that could
topple a world!
I Speak for Earth (as Keith
Woodcott)
The Ladder in the Sky (as Keith
Woodcott)
Secret Agent of Terra/The Avengers of Carrig
Planet
14 was just a speck on a spacial stereo map, just a world
inhabited by a group of barbaric refugees. But to Belfeor, it was
instant cash. All he needed was an iron hand and a means to dig out its
radioactive resources for export to his own world. To Maddalena it was
a final exam: this would be her last chance to prove herself worthy of
Corps Galactica membership. To Saikmar, it was a nation and a people
stolen from him by cruel treachery. To Gus Langenschmidt, it was part
of a job he had, watching the skies and helping men who were being
enslaved. But how do you help people who don't know you exist and who
must not be told?
The Super Barbarians
The
Acre was the only part of an entire world where Earthmen were
allowed to live as they pleased and as they were accustomed. For
elsewhere on Qualavarra, humanity was forced into servitude by the
Vorra, THE SUPER BARBARIANS who had somehow managed to conquer space.
But within the Acre, the
underling Terrestrials had cooked up a neat
method of keeping their conquerors from stamping them out altogether.
They had uncovered a diabolical Earth secret that the Vorra couldn't
abide -- and yet couldn't do without.
Times
Without Number
Traveling
backward in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and
interruptions on other time-interlopers; he had to preserve the
present. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely
alter the present! And he suspected that this had already happened:
that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication
had plotted to alter the victorious Spanish Armada of 1588 - thus
changing recorded history and perhaps even imperiling the Imperial
Spanish Empire of 1988! If Don Miguel did not successfully intercede,
when he came back to the present he might find a different world... a
different time... a time in which he probably didn't even exist!
The Astronauts Must Not Land/More Things in Heaven
Castaway's World/Polymath
The Dreaming Earth
The Psionic Menace (as Keith
Woodcott)
The Rites of Ohe
The Space-Time Juggler
Listen!
The Stars,
Endless Shadow/Manshape
Enigma from Tantalus
To Conquer Chaos
On
the face of the Earth only the Barrenland remained an
impenetrable mystery -- a blasted radioactive area the size of a small
state where no man dared to venture. But Jervis Yanderman was one of
the more courageous souls of that future day when men at least were
starting to reconstruct the vanquished civilization of the dim past.
Jervis knew that the secret of
the Barrenland had to be solved. For things
from out of this world still emerged from it to terrorize neighboring
lands and strange weird visitations haunted those who even approached
it.
The Altar on Asconel
Day of the Star Cities/
Age of Miracles
The
first hint that Earthman had that aliens had come to their planet
was a catastrophic one. Suddenly, without warning, all the atomic
weapons and fissionable material on Earth were blown up. Panic, death
and chaos reigned for months before things began to get back under
control.
By that time reports were
already coming in of five mysterious
star-shaped cities scattered over the globe - huge area of flickering
light and awesome free energy, disorganizing to human senses, and
impregnable to attack. The aliens had built their bases on Earth.
But were they only bases, or -
something else?
The Long Result
The Martian Sphinx (as Keith
Woodcott)
The Repairmen of Cyclops
The Squares of the City
Ciudad
de Vados is a "perfect" city, but its brilliant white plazas are
running red with the blood of brutally murdered people. At the center
of the trouble is a power struggle in which the Minister of Information
is using mind-control and mass-hypnosis to manipulate and control major
players in the battle. Enter Boyd Hakluyt, a traffic consultant who has
arrived just in time to see another murder, and to realize that his
presences has nothing to do with traffic. For he is yet another pawn in
the deadly chess game of power that threatens to destroy the very city
in whose squares this game is being played out.
Born Under Mars
Ray
Mallin returned from the stars to find that his home planet Mars
had fallen into shocking decay and apathy. Once Mars had been the great
hope of the Solar System. Once men came from Earth to test their
strength and adaptiveness on a harsh new world--now the progress of
mankind had passed Mars by, and she had become a second-class planet,
her Mars-born humans only dead-end mutations.
But Ray Mallin had little time
to worry about the problems of his home
planet, for as soon as he landed he was abducted by agents of Earth's
newer and more advanced colony planets, agents who would stop at
nothing to gain information they thought he had. Though brutally
tortured, and surrounded by treachery, intrigue and danger, he managed
to escape.
How long would it be before he
realized that he was the key to a secret that would change the future
of the human race!
A Planet of Your Own
The Productions of Time
A
sadistic playwright's avant-garde theater thrusts a troupe of actors
into an experiment in programmed perversion.
Quicksand
Bedlam Planet
Everything
about the planet revoling around Sigma Draconis seemed to
indicate that it was an uninhabited paradise. But what then was so
troubling to the pioneer colony? Was it really possible to simply
duplicate Earth on any vacant world? Or was there a lot more to
planetary ecology than humanity realized.
Stand on Zanzibar
There are
seven billion-plus of our species, crowding the surface of
twenty-first century Earth in an age of acceleratubes, Moonbase Zero,
intelligent Computers, mass marketed psychedelics, politics by
assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes -
hive-living hysteria that is reaching its bursting point all over the
world. But a hive seldom knows its own madness until its too late.
Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has
created a future world as real as this morning's newspaper - moving,
sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book
is a real mind-stretcher - and yet beautifully orchestrated to give a
vivid picture of the whole.
Double, Double
The Jagged Orbit
Matthew
Flamen, the last of the networks'
spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. There's no shortage of
possibilities, but then into his lap falls the story that the respected
director of the New York State Mental Hospital is a charlatan. (another
review)
Timescoop
Harold
Freitas III is merely looking for
a publicity triumph, and the
"monsters" are his own ancestors, brought forward to 2066 by a newly
invented magic device. The ancestors have some difficulties, amusingly
described, in adjusting to 21st-century mores. Freitas and his sentient
computer SPARCI save the day.
The Gaudy Shadows
The Dramaturges of Yan
The Wrong End of Time
The Sheep Look Up
In
this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are
commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from
some form of ailment. The water is polluted, and only the poor drink
from the tap. The government is ineffectual, and corporate interests
scramble to make a profit from water purifiers, gas masks, and organic
foods. Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The Trainites,
environmental activists and sometime terrorists, want him to lead their
movement. The government wants him in jail, or preferably, executed.
The media wants a circus. Everyone has a plan for Train, but Train has
a plan of his own.
The Stardroppers
The Stone That Never Came Down
Total Eclipse
The
Shockwave Rider
<>He
Was The
Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie
Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't
exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government
think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code
— then he escaped.Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and
personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world
tottering on the brink of disaster.He didn't care how he did
it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him
back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new
education!
The Infinitive of Go
Dr. Justin Williams had discovered an amazing new method of transport.
Using an advanced computerized device, an obscure scientific principle
could be applied to move macroscopic objects through space.
As part of a classified
project, multiple "posting" experiments have proved
successful—first inanimate objects, graduating to transporting
volunteers across short distances.
However, when a first
long-distance experiment resulted in an
apparently psychotic episode culminating in a suicide,
Dr. Williams and his theories came under crushing doubt.
Stung and afraid, the scientist volunteers to repeat the
experiment.
The "posting" appears to be successful at first.
However, Justin begins to notice small but significant changes
in people he knows.
The question: is Justin's memory uneliable, or has the "posting"
delivered him to another universe?
Players at the Game of People
War
hero, jet-setter, gourmet - Godwin Harpinshield was all of these
things and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People
whose fame, wealth and power set them above the law, and beyond the
laws of nature. Because of a simple bargain that all the Beautiful
People made, Godwin's every desire was his for the asking. Seduced by
luxury, Godwin never doubted his fortune, never wondered about his
mysterious patrons. Then the game turned ugly. Suddenly, the ante was
raised and the game was real. The stakes were his future, his sanity
and, possibly, his very soul. All Godwin Harpinshield had to discover
was: What were the rules of the game? And who - or what - were the
other players?
While There's Hope
A Maze of Stars
The ship's
millenia-long mission was to preserve humanity. But humanity was
becoming more alien, and the ship--impossibly--more human...
The Crucible of Time
Life
had become too interesting on one world crawling across the
rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy, for as the system moved it swept
up cosmic dust and debris. Ice ages and periods of atropical warmth
followed one another very quickly. Yesterday's fabled culture might be
tomorrow's interesting hole in the ground. But society had always
endured. Many thought it always would. Only the brightest scientists
admitted that to survive, the race would have to abandon the planet.
And to do that they'd have to invent spacecraft...
The Great Steamboat Race
The Tides of Time
First
there was the end. After weeks of running from pursuers, Gene and
Stacy finally found refuge on an isolated island. But around them the
island changed - and so did they. Each time they awoke from sleep, they
lived a different life in a different time. And the farther back in
time they went, the more they lost their anchor to their own world.
When at last they were found, the people they had become no longer
recognized their pursuers. And that was the beginning.
More Things in Heaven
The Shift Key
Children of the Thunder
Peter
Levin is a freelance science reporter watching England (and the
rest of the world) going nowhere fast (and in a handbasket). His hope
that humanity may redeem itself turns into fear as old acquaintances
send him information on the Children of the Thunder, a
random mix of adolescents who seem capable of almost any crime- and of
getting away with it. Are they the final straw for a doomed
civilization, or will they save humanity from itself?
Muddle
Earth
Travel
to Muddle Earth, the most unlikely place in the known and
unknown universe, and witness the weirdest future imaginable, from one
of the great imaginations of science fiction - Hugo Award-winning
author John Brunner.
Collections
No Future In It
(1962) |
No Future in It
Badman,
(ss)
Elected
Silence (aka Silence), (nv)
Fair (as
Keith Woodcott), (ss)
The Iron
Jackass, (ss)
No Future
in It, (ss)
Out of
Order, (ss)
Protect Me
from My Friends, (ss)
Puzzle for
Spacemen, (nv)
Report on
the Nature of the Lunar Surface, (ss)
Stimulus,
(ss)
The Windows
of Heaven (aka Two by Two), (ss)
Times Without Number
Jack Guaghan
(1962) |
Times Without Number
The
Fullness of Time, (nv)
Spoil of
Yesterday, (nv)
The Word
Not Written, (nv)
The Whole Man
(1964) |
The Whole Man
After
a riot in a
near-future England where telepathy
has been discovered, the authorities discover Gerald Howson, a
physically deformed youth with greater telepathic power than has ever
been seen before. The novel details Howson's struggles to come to grips
with his power and his deformity.
City of the
Tiger, (na)
Curative
Telepath (aka The Whole Man), (na)
The Whole
Man, (na)
Now Then
(1965) |
Now Then
Imprint of
Chaos, (na)
Some Lapse
of Time, (nv)
Thou Good
and Faithful (as John Loxmith), (nv)
The Man
from the Big Dark, (na)
No Other
Gods But Me (rev of A Time to Rend), (nv)
The Odds
Against You (aka Against the Odds), (ss)
Out of My Mind
Richard Powers
(1967) |
Out of My Mind
A Better
Mousetrap, (nv)
The Eye of
the Beholder, (ss)
Fair
Warning, (ss)
The Fourth
Power, (nv)
The Last
Lonely Man, (ss)
The Nail in
the Middle of the Hand, (ss)
Orpheus's
Brother, (ss)
Prerogative, (ss)
Round Trip,
(ss)
See What I
Mean! (ss)
Singleminded, (nv)
Such Stuff,
(ss)
The Totally
Rich, (nv)
Not Before Time
(1968) |
Not Before Time
A Better
Mousetrap, (nv)
Coincidence
Day, (ss)
The Eye of
the Beholder, (ss)
Fair
Warning, (ss)
Prerogative, (ss)
Round Trip,
(ss)
Siezure
(aka Children in Hiding), (ss)
Singleminded, (nv)
Treason Is
a Two-Edged Sword (aka Treason), (nv)
The Warp
and the Woof-Woof, (ss)
Entry to Elsewhere
Jack Gaughan
(1972) |
Entry to Elsewhen
·
Host Age,
(nv)
Lungfish
(aka Rendezvous with Destiny), (nv)
No Other
Gods But Me (revision of A Time To Rend), (nv)
Time-Jump
(1973) |
Time-Jump
Coincidence
Day, (ss)
Death Do Us
Part, (ss)
Nobody Axed
You, (nv)
The Product
of the Masses, (nv)
Speech Is
Silver, (ss)
The Warp
and the Woof-Woof, (ss)
Whirligig,
(ss)
From This Day Forward
Frank Kelly Freas
(1972) |
From This Day Forward
The Biggest
Game (as Keith Woodcott), (ss)
An Elixir
for the Emperor, (ss)
Even
Chance, (ss)
Factsheet
Six, (nv)
Fairy Tale,
(ss)
Fifth
Commandment, (ss)
The
Inception of the Epoch of Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, (ss)
Judas, (ss)
The Oldest
Glass, (verse)
Planetfall,
(ss)
The Trouble
I See, (ss)
The
Vitanuls, (ss)
Wasted on
the Young, (ss)
The Book of John Brunner
Jack Gaughan
(1976) |
The Book of John Brunner
Various articles, poems, songs, and miscellaneous works plus the
following
fiction:
Bloodstream, (ss)
Excerpt
from a Social History of the 20th Century, (ss)
When
Gabriel..., (ss)
Who Steals
My Purse, (nv)
Out of My Mind
The Fourth
Power, (nv)
The Last
Lonely Man, (ss)
The Man Who
Played the Blues, (ss)
The Nail in
the Middle of the Hand, (ss)
Orpheus's
Brother, (ss)
See What I
Mean! (ss)
Such Stuff,
(ss)
The Totally
Rich, (nv)
When
Gabriel..., (ss)
Whirligig!
(ss)
Times Without Number
Michael Ferris
(1983) Expanded |
Times Without
Number
The
Fullness of Time, (nv)
Spoil of
Yesterday, (nv)
The Word
Not Written, (nv)
Vicimms of the Nova
Edddie Jones
(1989) |
Victims of the Nova
The
Avengers of Carrig, (1969 novel)
Polymath,
(1974 novel)
The
Repairmen of Cyclops, (1965 novel)
Three Complete Novels |
Three Complete Novels
Children of
the Thunder, (1989 novel)
The
Crucible of Time, (1983 novel)
The Tides
of Time, (1984 novel)
The Best of John Brunner
Barclay Shaw
(1998)
|
The Best of John Brunner
An Elixir
for the Emperor, (ss)
Fair (as
Keith Woodcott), (ss)
Galactic
Consumer Report No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines, (article)
Galactic
Consumer Report No. 2: Automatic Twin-Tube Wishing Machines, (article)
Galactic
Consumer Report No. 3: A Survey of the Membership, (article)
Galactic
Consumer Report No. 4: Thing-of-the-Month Clubs, (article)
The Last
Lonely Man, (ss)
The Man Who
Saw the Thousand-Year Reich, (nv)
No Future
in It, (ss)
Such Stuff,
(ss)
The Suicide
of Man, (nv)
The Taste
of the Dish and the Savor of the Day, (nv)
The Totally
Rich, (nv)
Tracking
with Close-ups (from Stand on Zanzibar), Doubleday, 1968
The
Vitanuls, (ss)
What
Friends Are For, (ss)
X-Hero,
(ss)
