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John Brunner (1934–1995)

Author of Stand on Zanzibar

263+ Works 21,468 Members 356 Reviews 39 Favorited

About the Author

Legendary science fiction author John Brunner was the winner of the Hugo award and two-time winner of the British Science Fiction Award. He was perhaps the first science fiction author to predict the Internet and coined the term "worm" to descibe computer viruses. Mr. Brunner died in 1995

Series

Works by John Brunner

Stand on Zanzibar (1968) 3,161 copies
The Sheep Look Up (1972) 1,622 copies
The Shockwave Rider (1975) 1,554 copies
The Crucible of Time (1982) 727 copies
The Jagged Orbit (1969) 715 copies
The squares of the city (1965) 577 copies
The Whole Man (1964) 552 copies
Total Eclipse (1974) 419 copies
The Wrong End of Time (1971) 412 copies
Times without number (1969) 353 copies
Polymath (1963) 344 copies
The Traveler in Black (1960) 339 copies
The long result (1965) 335 copies
Players at the Game of People (1980) — Author — 324 copies
Interstellar Empire (1976) 309 copies
Children of the Thunder (1988) 298 copies
The Dramaturges of Yan (1972) 292 copies
Born under Mars (1966) — Author — 286 copies
The Webs of Everywhere (1974) 274 copies
The Infinitive of Go (1980) 269 copies
Bedlam Planet (1968) 249 copies
The tides of time (1984) 246 copies
A Maze Of Stars (1991) 238 copies
Catch a Falling Star (1968) 233 copies
The Productions of Time (1967) 221 copies
Quicksand (1969) — Author — 219 copies
Age of Miracles (1973) 215 copies
Timescoop (1969) 211 copies
Entry to Elsewhen (1972) 199 copies
To Conquer Chaos (1964) 199 copies
The dreaming Earth (1961) — Author — 194 copies
The Avengers of Carrig (1962) 191 copies
The Stardroppers (1972) 190 copies
More Things in Heaven (1973) 184 copies
Double, Double (1969) 169 copies
The World Swappers (1959) 168 copies
Muddle Earth (1993) 166 copies
From This Day Forward (1972) 165 copies
The Atlantic Abomination (1960) 155 copies
Out of My Mind {UK Edition} (1968) 137 copies
Into the Slave Nebula (1968) 127 copies
The repairmen of Cyclops (1965) 119 copies
Not Before Time (1957) — Author — 118 copies
Meeting at Infinity (1961) — Author — 104 copies
Now Then! (1965) 98 copies
Manshape (1982) 97 copies
Time-Jump (1973) 97 copies
No future in it (1962) 91 copies
The day of the star cities (1965) 90 copies
The Super Barbarians (1962) 82 copies
Give Warning to the World (1974) 75 copies
The Book of John Brunner (1976) 74 copies
Secret Agent of Terra / The Rim of Space (1962) — Author — 66 copies
The Shift Key (1987) 55 copies
Slavers of Space / Dr. Futurity (1960) — Author — 55 copies
The Evil that Men Do / The Purloined Planet (1969) — Author — 55 copies
The Martian Sphinx (1965) 54 copies
Victims Of The Nova (1989) — Author — 50 copies
The Best of John Brunner (1988) 49 copies
The Great Steamboat Race (1983) 49 copies
Rocket To Limbo / Echo In The Skull (Ace Double) (1959) — Contributor — 48 copies
The Rebellers / Listen! The Stars! (1963) — Author — 47 copies
Vulcan's Hammer / The Skynappers (1960) — Author — 47 copies
Beyond The Gate of Worlds (1991) — Author — 45 copies
The Atlantic Abomination / The Martian Missile (1960) — Author — 44 copies
The 100th Millennium / Edge of Time (1959) — Author — 44 copies
Wandl the Invader / I Speak For Earth (Ace Double D-497) (1961) — Contributor — 42 copies
The Secret Martians / Sanctuary In The Sky (1960) — Contributor — 39 copies
Times Without Number / Destiny's Orbit (1962) — Author — 37 copies
Threshold of Eternity / The War of Two Worlds (1959) — Author — 37 copies
The Gaudy Shadows (1970) 35 copies
Father of Lies / Mirror Image (1968) — Contributor — 32 copies
Black is the Color (1969) 30 copies
No Other Gods But Me (1966) 28 copies
The Altar on Asconel (1965) 23 copies
Out of My Mind (1967) 19 copies
Endless Shadow (1964) — Author — 19 copies
A Case of Painter's Ear (1987) 19 copies
Foreign Constellations (1980) 17 copies
The Rites of Ohe (1963) 17 copies
Days of March (1988) 16 copies
The Ladder in the Sky (1962) 16 copies
A Planet of Your Own (1966) 14 copies
Honky in the woodpile (1971) 14 copies
Tomorrow May Be Even Worse (1978) 14 copies
Tous à Zanzibar -tome 1 (1968) 13 copies
Listen! The Stars! (1962) 12 copies
Enigma from Tantalus (1965) 12 copies
Tous à Zanzibar (Tome 2) (1968) 12 copies
The 100th Millennium (1959) 11 copies
Wear the Butchers' Medal (1965) 11 copies
The Skynappers (1960) 10 copies
Sanctuary in the Sky (1960) 10 copies
Galaxy Science Fiction 1965 April, Vol. 23, No. 4 (1965) — Author — 10 copies
I Speak for Earth (1961) 10 copies
Slavers of Space (1960) 9 copies
Threshold of Eternity (1958) 9 copies
The Space-Time Juggler (1953) 8 copies
Thinkertoy {short story} (1996) 8 copies
The Evil That Men Do (1969) 8 copies
Good Men Do Nothing (1970) 7 copies
The Devil's Work (1970) 7 copies
Welten der Zukunft 12 (1986) — Contributor — 6 copies
Judas [short fiction] (1967) 6 copies
Dread Empire [novella] (1971) 6 copies
The Iron Jackass (1962) 5 copies
Such Stuff [short story] (1962) 5 copies
Echo in the skull (1959) 5 copies
Some Lapse of Time (1963) 5 copies
The Things That Are Gods (1979) 5 copies
The Wager Lost by Winning (1970) 4 copies
A Place of Quiet Assembly (2010) 4 copies
Fair [short story] (1956) 4 copies
The Psionic Menace (1963) — Pseudonym — 4 copies
While There's Hope (1982) 3 copies
The warp and the woof (1966) 3 copies
Sentences of Death (1979) 3 copies
Stimulus [novelette] (1962) 3 copies
See What I Mean! (1963) 3 copies
The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories (2013) — Author — 3 copies
The Vitanuls (1967) 3 copies
Father of lies 2 copies
Science Fiction Special 25 (1978) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Killing Game (1994) 2 copies
Moths 2 copies
Host Age 2 copies
L'orbite dechiquetee (1971) 2 copies
The Fourth Power (1960) 2 copies
The days of March (1988) 2 copies
The Brink 2 copies
Badman [short story] (1960) 2 copies
Whirligig! (1967) 2 copies
When Gabriel... (1956) 2 copies
Orpheus's Brother (1964) 2 copies
Les Planétaires (2023) 1 copy
Time Scoop 1 copy
Science Fiction Special 13 (1975) — Contributor — 1 copy
The Invisible Idiot — Author — 1 copy
Science Fiction Special 8 (1973) — Contributor — 1 copy
Seizure [Short story] (1966) 1 copy
Pond Water 1 copy
Amends 1 copy
La Tétralogie noire (2018) 1 copy

Associated Works

Earth Abides (1949) — Foreword, some editions — 3,552 copies
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Contributor — 1,877 copies
Thieves' World (1987) — Contributor — 1,517 copies
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995) — Contributor — 941 copies
After the King (1991) — Contributor — 753 copies
Aftermath (1987) — Contributor — 451 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contributor — 370 copies
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989) — Contributor — 321 copies
The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977) — Editor — 260 copies
Year's Best SF 2 (1997) — Contributor — 259 copies
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Contributor — 245 copies
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) — Contributor — 240 copies
The Fleet (1988) — Contributor — 230 copies
The 1976 Annual World's Best SF (1976) — Author — 208 copies
The Overlords of War (1971) — Translator, some editions — 195 copies
The 1978 Annual World's Best SF (1977) — Contributor, some editions — 194 copies
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994) — Contributor — 186 copies
Dangerous Visions 3 (1967) — Contributor — 180 copies
10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1965) — Contributor — 176 copies
Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey (1996) — Contributor — 140 copies
The Necronomicon (1901) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Ninth Galaxy Reader (1966) — Contributor — 123 copies
The Horns of Elfland (1997) — Contributor — 121 copies
6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1961) — Contributor — 121 copies
Day of the Tyrant (1985) — Contributor — 117 copies
8th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1963) — Contributor — 115 copies
Other Worlds, Other Gods (1971) — Contributor — 114 copies
Spectrum 4 (1965) — Contributor — 111 copies
After Armageddon (1990) — Contributor — 107 copies
World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 (1964) — Contributor — 101 copies
The Necronomicon (Chaosium ∙ 2nd Edition ∙ 2008) (2002) — Contributor — 99 copies
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994) — Contributor — 97 copies
Three Trips in Time and Space (1973) — Author — 88 copies
SF: Authors' Choice 4 (1974) — Contributor — 83 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6 (1980) — Contributor — 78 copies
Young Mutants (1984) — Contributor — 75 copies
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1946) — Editor — 75 copies
The Ultimate Zombie (1993) — Contributor — 71 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds (1967) — Contributor — 70 copies
Thieves' World: First Blood (2003) — Contributor — 65 copies
Dark Stars (1969) — Contributor — 64 copies
More Adventures on Other Planets (1963) — Contributor — 64 copies
New Worlds of Fantasy (1967) — Contributor — 61 copies
The IF Reader of Science Fiction (1966) — Author, some editions — 59 copies
Fantasy Annual III (1977) — Contributor — 56 copies
Fellowship of the Stars (1974) — Contributor — 54 copies
Best Science Fiction for 1972 (1972) — Contributor — 54 copies
Best New Horror 4 (1993) — Contributor — 53 copies
Science Against Man (1970) — Contributor — 52 copies
Fine Frights (Anthology) (1988) — Contributor — 51 copies
Quark/2 (1971) — Contributor — 51 copies
The Witchcraft Reader (1969) — Contributor — 50 copies
Genometry (2001) — Contributor — 46 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 8 (1974) — Contributor — 45 copies
Great Science Fiction Adventures (1963) — Contributor — 45 copies
Introductory Psychology through Science Fiction (1974) — Contributor — 44 copies
Explorations of the Marvellous (1976) — Contributor — 44 copies
Stars of Albion (1979) — Contributor — 43 copies
Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987) — Contributor — 40 copies
The Williamson Effect (1996) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Best of British SF 1 (1977) — Contributor — 36 copies
Shoredanin kellot (1992) — Author — 35 copies
Touch Wood (1993) — Contributor — 34 copies
Alien Worlds (1964) — Contributor — 32 copies
Heaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the Angels (1995) — Contributor — 30 copies
Warlocks and Warriors (1971) — some editions — 29 copies
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contributor — 29 copies
Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice (1984) — Contributor — 27 copies
Future Crimes (2021) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) — Contributor — 20 copies
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1982 (1982) — Contributor — 19 copies
Dark Voices 4 : the Pan Book of Horror (1992) — Contributor — 18 copies
Drabble Project (1988) — Contributor — 17 copies
Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void (2021) — Contributor — 17 copies
Dark Voices 2 (1990) — Contributor — 17 copies
Space Pioneers (1954) — Contributor — 16 copies
Splinters (1968) — Contributor — 15 copies
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Contributor, some editions — 13 copies
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 65. Cyrion in Bronze. (1983) — Contributor, some editions — 10 copies
Rat Tales (1994) — Contributor — 8 copies
Hammer and Bolter: Issue 1 (2010) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies
Worlds of Tomorrow No. 02, June 1963 (1963) — Contributor — 7 copies
Time of Passage (1978) — Contributor — 7 copies
Welten der Zukunft 4 (1985) — Contributor — 7 copies
Fantastic. No. 167 (February 1972) (1972) — Contributor — 6 copies
Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction (1988) — Contributor — 6 copies
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977 (1977) — Contributor — 6 copies
Fantastic. No. 165 (October 1971) (1971) — Contributor — 6 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 91 • December 2017 (2017) — Contributor — 5 copies
Amazing Stories Vol. 47, No. 6 [April 1974] (1974) — Contributor — 5 copies
Dark Voices 6 (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
Amazing Stories Vol. 45, No. 4 [November 1971] (1971) — Contributor — 4 copies
Strange Pleasures 2 (2003) — Contributor — 3 copies
Supernovæ (1993) — Contributor — 2 copies
Millemondi Inverno 1996 — Contributor — 2 copies
Strange Fantasy #13 Fall '70 (1970) — Contributor — 1 copy
Science Fiction Review #29 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Happy Birthday, John Brunner in Dystopian novels (September 2013)

Reviews

Still good

Unfortunately this has become a bit dated. Also simpler than other works of his I'm familiar with; likely an side effect of it's time, when the publishing industry was insisting on shorter formats. There were some elements that could have developed a more complex storyline. Also, the ending is morbid, dwelling for some pages in the rambling of a dying man, and the last man on the planet. Some will find such thoughts interesting and insightful, but not for me
 
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acb13adm | 7 other reviews | Sep 13, 2023 |
I had read the Crucible of Time before, & loved it. The other two novels with it in this bundle were a completely different sort of writing that I find tedious at best.
 
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acb13adm | Sep 13, 2023 |
just couldnt relate with it. To me it seems written in the buzztLk of the in crowd... if you know what's what, and the whyfor of it, you can maybe dig the nuggets. Cool beans for those withit... not so much for social misfits like self.
 
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acb13adm | 13 other reviews | Sep 13, 2023 |
Should maybe be a four star, but 1. I didn't like the disjointed style this was done in. 2. I'm not really sure if I should add a point for the several aspects in which his predictions have come true, because now that they ARE true, there's less impact (in other words, it's become dated)
 
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Works
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Also by
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Members
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Popularity
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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Languages
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Favorited
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