COF Recommends - Science Fiction by John Brunner
Explore top science fiction books by John Brunner with COF Recommends. Discover must-read titles and classic picks from Brunner's acclaimed works in this curated list.
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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 Riders
by John Brunner
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 Tides of Time
by John Brunner
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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Players at the Game of People
by John Brunner
Godwin Harpinshield decides to defy the mysterious alien powers that have provided him with every luxury in return for vicarious adventure
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The Jagged Orbit
by John Brunner
Matthew Flamen, the last of the networksÂż sppolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. And thereÂżs 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 thereÂżs 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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The Crucible of Time
by John Brunner
The epic tale of the development, over millennia, of a species from a culture of planet-bound medieval city-states to a sophisticated, technological civilization.
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The Best of John Brunner
by John Brunner
A collection of 15 stories by one of contemporary science fiction's finest writers.
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Children of the Thunder
by John Brunner
Science writer Peter Levin and Claudia Morris, researcher in juvenile delinquency, discover a disturbing pattern of crimes in the rapidly deteriorating society of 1990s Britain.