AHA! The Insightful Fiction Of John Brunner
Explore the insightful fiction of John Brunner with our curated list of his most thought-provoking books. Dive into Brunner's visionary stories that blend science fiction with profound social commentary.
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The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
"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"--Publisher.
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The Shockwave Rider
by John Brunner
A Science Fiction Book Club Selection "When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since." -- Alvin Toffler Author of Future Shock 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!
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The Jagged Orbit
by John Brunner
Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks¿ sppolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. And there¿s no shortage of possibilities: the Gottschalk cartel is fomenting trouble among the knees in order to sell their latest armaments to the blanks; which ties in nicely with the fact that something big is brewing with the X Patriots. And then there¿s the story that just falls into his lap: the one that suggests that the respected director of the New York State Mental Hospital is a charlatan...
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John Brunner
by John Brunner
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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A Maze of Stars
by John Brunner
The ship's millenia-long mission was to preserve humanity. But humanity was becoming more alien, and the ship--impossibly--more human...
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The Dramaturges of Yan
by John Brunner
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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Catch a Falling Star
by John Brunner
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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Age of Miracles
by John Brunner
"When the aliens came to earth they did not make contact with its inhabitants. Instead they set up, overnight, vast shining cities like mountainous gems whose borders men could not penetrate, where nations' bombs and weapons could do no damage. In the impact of these incredible invaders, the world's governments fell apart and new ganglike [sic] regimes arose. Reduced to helplessness on what was once their world, men struggle to find a different way of life... free of war, free of national enmities and united only by a burning desire to share in the interstellar Age of Miracles."--Pg. [4] of cover.
