See also: Brunner
John Kilian Houston Brunner is a British writer of Science-fiction (September 24th 1934 - August 26th 1995).
Biography
It was born in the Oxford shire and made its studies with Cheltenham. He wrote his first news Galactic storm at 17 years under the name of Gill Hunt but in a professional way only towards 1958 started to write.
It begin with Space operated conventional before being devoted thereafter to formal research which will lead to more ambitious novels. It received the Prix Hugo and the British SF Award in 1969 and the Apollo price in 1973 with All with Zanzibar, considered today as traditional of the kind. the jagged orbit ( The jagged orbit ) received British SF Award in 1970.
It used various pseudonyms: K.H. Brunner, Gill Hunt (pseudonym shared with E.C. Tubb and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, and Keith Woodcott.
Its health started to decline in the Années 1980 especially after the death of his wife in 1986. He died in Glasgow in Scotland of a Cerebral vascular accident whereas he took part in the 53ème world Convention of science fiction.
Works
The public gardens off the city (1965, the City is a chess-board )
Ciudad de Vados is a futuristic megalopolis located in full heart of the Central America that the Vados president-dictator made build using the best specialists in universal town planning while hoping to gain immortality thus.
To regulate the problems of circulation, it called upon Boyd Hakluyt which, little by little, realizes that it is handled, that it is in the center of a fantastic trap, the action developing according to the techniques and the methods of the set of failures, the played parts, perfectly logical and realizable managed blows being thus.
Novel of Science fiction of 440 pages.
Long The result (1965), the long labor of time
I read N°848, 1978
The Productions Off Time (1967), productions of time
Delgado is a genious playwright. And when it joins together a handle of actors in a detached house, it is to put a new part of avant-garde. But whereas the text is long in coming, and that this door-close passions, ambitions and defect turns in the sourness, Murray Douglas, the alcoholic high-speed motorboat on the decline, which seeks to protect Heather the ingenuous one from so many turpitudes, discovers strange apparatuses. Until under the beds. They are recorded. But which? Or what? And from which this technology without similar comes on Earth?
Casterman Other times, other worlds, 1978
Stand one Zanzibar (1968, All in Zanzibar )
See also: All with Zanzibar
The universe of Stand one Zanzibar had so much marked John Brunner whom it was used as framework with a second novel:
The jagged orbit (1969, the jagged orbit )
In New York, in 2014, the racial hate is pushed with its roof by the exploitation that makes of it Gottschalk, a Maffia of merchants of weapons, and by the confusion which a Black creates, Harry Madison. This mentally ill (?), interned in a hospital although it does not present any disorder, that the psychiatrists cannot make normal, which is equipped with extraordinary faculties in particular in electronics, is one of the rare men of its race authorized with côtoyer of the White. It dissimulates its true personality and, the day when it will appear, one will be able to tremble for the future of humanity.
Science-fiction novel of 400 pages which received the price of the British SF in 1971.
Comment: In this terrifying anticipation, of multiple intrigues intersect, although here continuity is maintained from beginning to end, contrary to Stand one Zanzibar . In spite of unfortunate and a too fast happy end, it is one of the richest novels of John Brunner, to compare with Jack Barron and eternity, of Norman Spinrad.
Times without number (1969, has waste of time )
Galaxy-(a) N°106,1984The wrong end off time (1971), the back of time
Presses of the Rebirth Another share, 1977
The stardroppers (1972), With the listening of the stars
the Mask Science Fiction N°95, 1979The sheep look up (1972, the herd plugs )
At the end of the century, the chemical Pollution is such as the the Mediterranean is a pestilential cesspool, that, certain days, in New York, it rains acid and that the tap water is not drinkable, that everyone or almost suffers from Allergie S, of intolerances, that the Microbe S resist the Antibiotique S and vermin with the Insecticide S, that food rare and is deteriorated by Pesticide S, that the life expectancy decrease regularly. However the ultimate step which the philosopher ecologist protestor Austin Train tries is dedicated to the failure.
Science-fiction novel of 420 pages. Comment: It is the table, with terrifying realism, of a possible future.
Elsewhere and tomorrow, 1975
The stone that never cam down (1973, Virus )
The Europe of the future being in prey with the Stagflation, the Fascisme crawls there, the puritanism dominates the England, of the hysterical preachers fanaticize against the immorality of the hordes of religious bigot S driven back while bands of hooligans with close-cropped hair lynch the homosexual and continue the Blacks. Until the day when, become contagious, the intelligence breaks like an epidemic, the repressive company lézardant itself and crumbling.
Science-fiction novel of 210 pages.
The shockwave to wrinkle (1974, On the shock wave )
Undoubtedly the first novel Cyberpunk (although John BRUNNER refutes it). In a world where all is computerized and electronic Nick Haflinger, the hero is a Hacker before the letter. He programs data-processing snakes to protect one from the last free cities of his country and makes use of his capacities of programmer to change trade and identity…
I read N°1368, 1982
Give warning to the world (1974, Alert the ground )
Superlights N°21, 1985Total Eclipses (1974), total Éclipse
On Draconis Sigma, with only 19 light-years of the Earth, an scientific exhibition discovers the traces of a civilization intelligent and developed, which seems to have disappeared there is little.
In the west of time (1967)
In a forest, one discovers a naked young woman holding of the incoherent remarks. A young psychiatrist Paul Fidler is charged to look after it with the psychiatric hospital of Chent. Will Paul Fidler succeed in boring his mystery and calming the concern of his colleagues? Does she suffer from an ignored form of amnesia? Is this a brilliant simulatrice? Or does it come, as she claims it, from a place located… at the west from time? And does it need really care?
Enthralling reflection on the madness, and its opposite, normality.
External bonds
- a biography on Biblioweb.
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