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	John Brunner (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories.
		Brunner's best-known work is perhaps 1975's proto-Cyberpunk The Shockwave Rider, in which he coined the term "worm", used to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network.
		Brunner died of a stroke in Glasgow, Scotland, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brunner_(novelist) (352 words)

	John Brunner
		Brunner was noted for his cynical insight into the workings of society and the human psyche as well as for his eerily accurate forecasts of technological and social trends.
		John Kilian Houston Brunner was born at Preston Crowmarsh, in Oxfordshire, England on September 24, 1934.
		Brunner served as Chairman of the British Science Fiction Association in 1972, and he was writer in residence at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
	www.nndb.com /people/720/000023651 (906 words)

	Stand on Zanzibar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopic science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1968.
		Brunner remarked that the growing world population now required a larger island—the 3.5 billion people living in 1968 could stand together on the Isle of Man (area 572 km²), while the 7 billion people whom he projected would be alive in 2010 would need to stand on Zanzibar (area 1554 km²).
		The key main trends are based on the enormous population and its impact: social stresses, eugenic legislation, widening social divisions, future shock, extremism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar (600 words)

	John Brunner: A Remembrance
		John Kilian Houston Brunner wasn't just a famous pro writer to me. He was a friend of mine for the past 20-odd years.
		John was one of a few locals I telephoned on the occasion of my first trip to Britain in 1985.
		John was tickled that someone involved (however peripherally) with a work of his could have come to such a fate.
	home.earthlink.net /~oy/brunner.htm (859 words)

	John Brunner Obituary
		John Killian Houston Brunner was born at Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, in 1934 and educated at Cheltenham.
		John Brunner, the science fiction author who turned his attention to contemporary social issues in novels like Stand on Zanzibar, is dead at 60.
		Brunner attracted attention outside his native England for his experimentation with story form and in 1969 drew great attention to his writing with a fragmented narrative that treated the potential nightmare of overpopulation in Stand on Zanzibar.
	www.rudysbooks.com /brunnerobit.html (571 words)

	Heroes of Cyberspace: John Brunner
		Brunner comes so close here to predicting today's computer world, but his vision here is still stuck in the fifties: offices all over the United States rent time on Shalmaneser, as though it were an early IBM mainframe, and much of Shalmaneser's output is on reams of paper.
		Brunner did have a grasp of the problems of applying computers to the real world: "Isolated in the air-conditioned GT tower, one might juggle for a thousand years with data from computers and pattern them into a million beautiful logical arrays.
		John Brunner got critical respect as a writer of science fiction, but he never gained the overwhelming fame or fortune that the top few writers enjoy, and that he probably deserved as well.
	www.skypoint.com /members/gimonca/brunner.html (1663 words)

	Shockwave Rider: Brunner's Information Age by John Brunner
		Even the example Brunner uses shows how ridiculous this supposed consequence of the information age is. Kate, one of the main characters in the novel, had a father whose discoveries were never accepted by the scientific community because they could not be reproduced by anyone else.
		Brunner spends most of his novel writing about all the dangers of the information age, and how it has taken away the pleasant community feel that comes from living in the same place with the same group of people.
		John Brunner, at least in terms of the setting of the future, is very correct.
	www.sffworld.com /authors/b/brunner_john/articles/shockwave.html (1065 words)

	Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews PS#9: John Brunner
		Brunner uses this crisis to construct an interesting low-pressure look at a future Earth that might or might not be on the verge of a large step towards maturity.
		(Brunner also projects the population of the US at four hundred billion, which is not reasonable without major changes which he doesn't show.) The main effect of this population increase -- aside from the fact that the economy can barely sustain it -- is psychological: People have become obssessed with the population control and eugenics.
		John Brunner was a prolific writer of space adventure fiction in the fifties and sixties.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/dani/PS_009.htm (1058 words)

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		Brunner later wrote to Niekas saying that it was the first review he had seen of the book; he was kind enough to not say what he thought of it.
		Later the name "John Brunner" became one to look for on a book cover, and I began to appreciate that his brand of socially committed science fiction was something to welcome and treasure.
		John was trying to locate a copy of an obscure SF anthology in which he'd got a story published, and he wrote a letter to the SFWA Forum, asking if anyone could help.
	www.boston-baden.com /smofs/intervom.mem (2717 words)

	Portrait of John Brunner
		John Brunner's sudden death at the Glasgow world science fiction convention came as a profound shock, but not, sadly, a surprise to those who had been in contact with him in the weeks and months before.
		John was the first major sf writer I came to know personally, and although I often found his company uncomfortable, because away from home he put on a defensive veneer, I never ceased to admire him, like him and more often than not love him.
		John was a passionate political liberal: he was against the bomb, against racism, against government oppression, against corruption.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /christopherpriest/brunport.htm (577 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Jagged Orbit
		John Brunner was born in 1934 in Oxfordshire, England.
		But Brunner is far too canny a writer to allow his characters to wrest away his control of the narrative (as Heinlein's characters often did).
		Brunner was a vocal political activist; he walked the walk.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/jo93.htm (1343 words)

	Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, science fiction book
		John Brunner (1934-1995) was a central figure in British science fiction during the 1960's and 70's.
		Brunner's health was failing and he is reported to have become embittered by his lack of commercial success, despite the critical acclaim his work had received.
		Brunner also wrote a number of novels outside of the science fiction and fantasy genres, including The Crutch of Memory (1964), A Plague on Both Your Causes (1969, alternate title Backlash), Black is the Color (1969), The Devil's Work (1970), Honky in the Woodpile (1971), and The Great Steamboat Race (1983).
	members.aol.com /tishede/brunner.htm (968 words)

	Dark Moon Rising - June 2003
		John Brunner wrote for over 40 years before his death in August of 1995.
		His company was Brunner Fact and Fiction and if you look at the copyrights on some of his work from the middle 1970's on, you'll see his company listed as the copyright holder.
		Still, Brunner got a fair amount of recognition during his lifetime, and, after his death, a number of fans made a point to eulogize him not only for the depth of his work, but his honesty and openness.
	www.darkmoonrising.com /issues/jun03?file=bod (1910 words)

	The Sheep Look Up: A Book of Environmental Disaster by John Brunner
		Though John Brunner displays his considerable ability with prose, and through his talents leaves the reader with a sense of the dangers to come from environmental ambivalence, that is all this novel does.
		Having been so critical of Brunner, it is only fair to mention his good qualities, the chief one being the father of cyberpunk.
		The way that Brunner writes his novels, chaotically jumping from scene to scene, as well as using clips from the media reminds me a great deal of William Gibson.
	www.sffworld.com /authors/b/brunner_john/articles/sheeplookup.html (936 words)

	john_brunner_and_bob_shaw
		John had often spent time with us at SF Conventions, and had agreed to contribute to the Futures Maze project when it became a reality.
		He was one of the readers at the SF poetry evening, part of the programme we organised for the ASTRA exhibition at the Book Fair of the first Edinburgh Science Festival in 1979.
		Another of the many writers there, who died not long afterwards, was Bob Shaw ('the Real Bob Shaw'), who first met the ASTRA members at the 'beyond This Horizon' festival at Sunderland in 1973 and made a point of going to the extra exhibition there by Ed Buckley and Gavin Roberts.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~portwin/ASTRA/People/obituaries/john_brunner_and_bob_shaw.html (312 words)

	John Brunner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joe Haldeman explicitly acknowledges his debt to Brunner and dos Passos for the style which he adopted for his brilliant novel Mindbridge and for his award winning novella "Tricentennial".
		The world of 2010 will be very different from what Brunner portrayed, for the late 60's was a peak time for apocalyptic SF --Brunner's own The Sheep Look Up is an excellent example of this, though it is somewhat inferior to Stand on Zanzibar.
		Yet Brunner does have an uncanny knack of prediction: his minor work Born Under Mars seems like a low-budget rip-off of Dune, until one discovers that it predated Herbert's classic.
	homepage.eircom.net /~albedo1/html/john_brunner.html (439 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Genres: Science Fiction: Authors: B: Brunner, John
		John Brunner: A Remembrance · cached · A short memorial to Brunner written on the occasion of his death in 1995.
		John Brunner Book Reviews from Usenet · cached · Reviews of two of the author's books, "The Compleat Traveller in Black" and "A Maze of Stars", collected from Usenet.
		Heroes of Cyberspace: John Brunner · cached · An article by Charles A. Gimon with insights on Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=55633 (151 words)

	SF Hub: John Brunner archive
		John Kilian Houston Brunner (1934-1995) was one of the most successful and prominent British science fiction writers of the 20th century.
		Brunner displayed a talent for writing at a young age and began publishing science fiction in the early 1950s.
		All material in the John Brunner Archive is available to researchers for consultation in the University of Liverpool Library's Special Collections and Archives Reading Room by prior arrangement.
	www.sfhub.ac.uk /Brunner.htm (458 words)

	John Brunner - Wikipédia
		John Brunner est un écrivain britannique de science-fiction (24 septembre 1934-26 août 1995).
		Malgré une malencontreuse et trop rapide happy end, c'est un des romans les plus riches de John Brunner, à comparer avec Jack Barron et l'éternité, de Norman Spinrad.
		Sans doute le premier roman cyber-punk (bien que John BRUNNER le réfute).
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brunner (827 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Manshape / John Brunner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With his story on shaky philosophical footing at its start, Brunner shifts the action to the planet Azrael, where the populace is immersed in a culture that exalts death as the highest goal.
		I wonder if Brunner was aware of the neo-fascist implications underlying the idea that the Bridge cannot be an optional item; colony worlds simply must accept it for their own good, and that's that.
		Yes, I can see Brunner's point when he depicts a humanity that has come to take for granted such amazing technological marvels that their sense of wonder has been bled dry; sadly we see that sort of thing in real life every day.
	www.sfreviews.net /manshape.html (564 words)

	The Long Result by John Brunner
		Brunner was a leftie his whole life and here he lets the left's infatuation with authoritarian government show.
		Brunner includes enough about Roald Vincent, the Cultural Bureau he works for, and their world to create the impression of a fascinating milieu, but he spends no time or words developing the background further than needed for the story.
		So Brunner's Cultural Bureau appears to be the main contact between Earth's government and the stars, but it has no more than 50-100 people.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/LongResult.html (599 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From archive (archive) Subject: Author Lists: John Brunner From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM Date: 9 Dec 88 13:26:40 GMT The problem with a John Brunner book list is that he suffers from the "across-the-pond" syndrome.
		John Brunner had several of his novels abridged when published in the US in the early 60's (typically as 1/2 of an Ace Double).
		John Brunner tends to write two kinds of novels: a standard SF novel of above average quality, and impressive mega-novels.
	sf.www.lysator.liu.se /sf_archive/sf-texts/authors/B/Brunner,John.mbox (151 words)

	Stephen H. Goldman- John Brunner's Dystopias: Heroic Man in Unheroic Society
		Brunner's optimism stems from an individual, not from the human race as a whole.
		Brunner shows this ratlike behavior in a scene in which Donald Hogan wanders into a part of New York City which is clearly off-limits to him.
		Brunner does not assume a future of promise and glory for mankind: the optimism of a manifest destiny is not part of the world that Brunner creates.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/16/goldman16art.htm (5789 words)

	John Brunner Obituary
		John was indeed a giant of sf, dealing at his best with lived-in futures combining extrapolative exhilaration and the nightmare of future shock.
		John Taylor appeared, mentioning how he'd seen the famous spoon-bending phenomenon `occuring under conditions in which there was no chance of fraud'.
		By coincidence, John Brunner had long been fuming over the widespread notion that all sf readers are gullible idiots ripe for any pseudoscientific drivel.
	www.ansible.co.uk /writing/brunner.html (777 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Stand on Zanzibar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		British writer John Brunner's novel, first published in 1969 (when it won both the Hugo and British Science Fiction awards, and four years later, the French Prix Apollo), is certainly one of the most literary, complex, challenging, even difficult works of science fiction written during the twentieth century.
		One of the triumphs of Brunner's book is that it can be read on any number of levels, which is probably why it seems to resonate with readers of extraordinarily divergent tastes.
		Brunner's writing style here can be a real trip too, with a montage of styles incorporating quick cuts between the viewpoints of different characters, along with constructed snippets resembling newspaper reports, government documents, advertisements, and even folktales from Brunner's imaginary world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857988361?v=glance (1585 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Stand on Zanzibar
		Brunner's Hugo-winning 1968 novel about individual responsibility and the dangerous consequences of social apathy returns to print at an excellent time.
		Brunner's story unfolds as a somewhat structured montage, an interwoven series of linked sections; the style is similar to the work of high-tone literary writer John Dos Passos, whose short, quick scenes cobbled together seemingly at random produce a synergy of mood and story.
		Brunner's structure is slightly more complex, but in many ways easier to follow, since each wide-flung piece really does connect plotwise to all the others.
	www.sfsite.com /04b/sz79.htm (1203 words)

	John Brunner
		Sadly neglected now, in the 60s and 70s, Brunner was a star of the SF scene.
		Brunner takes us through a year of future history in a nightmare world that could still be uncomfortably close to the truth.
		Arguably Brunner's best, Shockwave Rider combines the rather miserable environment of a bad news novel like Stand on Zanzibar with a sizzling adventure storyline that manages to give it an upbeat feel despite the surroundings.
	www.cul.co.uk /books/sfauth26.htm (862 words)

	John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar - an infinity plus review
		John Brunner was a master in the field, as books like The Sheep Look Up and The Shockwave Rider prove.
		Indeed, one of the 'plots' of the book is hinged around that difference, with a major corporation having the financial power to 'buy' a small African state, and use it as a tool to enhance both their own profits, while at the same time improving immeasurably the lot of the Africans.
		Where Brunner really scores is in fusing a number of different storylines together to give a picture of a future that is familiar enough to be recognisable and nightmarish enough to be disturbing.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/zanzibar.htm (335 words)

	phorum - Long Lost Science Fiction Authors - john brunner
		Brunner called PKD "the most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world" (quoted from the back inside page of the 6th printing of VALIS).
		Brunner was ultra hot at his peak, which many peg as the early 70's, but wasn't as popular in the US (he's a UK author).
		Brunner is the "grandfather" of what became cyberpunk (he called many of his writings 'close-up' sci-fi).
	www.philipkdickfans.com /forums/read.php?f=9&i=18&t=18 (610 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Genres: Science Fiction: Authors: B: Brunner, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heroes of Cyberspace: John Brunner - An article by Charles A. Gimon with insights on Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider.
		John Brunner: A Remembrance - A short memorial to Brunner written on the occasion of his death in 1995.
		John Brunner Book Reviews from Usenet - Reviews of two of the author's books, "The Compleat Traveller in Black" and "A Maze of Stars", collected from Usenet.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Genres/Science_Fiction/Authors/B/Brunner,_John (182 words)

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