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John Kilian Houston Brunner (
September 24,
1934 –
August 26,
1995) was a prolific
British author of
science fiction novels and stories.
Life
He was born at
Preston Crowmarsh in
Oxfordshire, and went to school at
Cheltenham. He wrote his first novel,
Galactic Storm, at 17, published under the name of Gill Hunt, but didn't write full time until
1958. He served as an officer in the
Royal Air Force from
1953 to
1955, and married
Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on
1958-07-12.
His health began to decline in the
1980s, and worsened with the death of his wife Marjorie in
1986. He remarried, to
Li Yi Tan, on
September 27,
1991. Brunner died of a
stroke in
Glasgow,
Scotland on
August 25,
1995, while attending the
World Science Fiction Convention there.
Brunner was a deeply popular figure in
science fiction fandom, not least in his native Britain, and the events of the 1995 WorldCon were altered on short notice in order to honor his passing.
Literary Works
At first writing conventional
space opera, he later began to experiment with the novel form. His
1968 novel
Stand on Zanzibar, about overpopulation, won the
1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the
BSFA award the same year.
The Jagged Orbit won the
BSFA award in
1970. His novel
The Sheep Look Up (
1972) was a prophetic warning of ecological disaster.
Brunner is credited with coining the term "
worm" in his
1975's proto-
Cyberpunk novel
The Shockwave Rider, in which he used it to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network.
His
pen names include: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, and Keith Woodcott.
As well as his fiction, he wrote many unpaid articles in a variety of publications, particularly
fanzines, but also 13 letters to the
New Scientist and
Physics Education (
1971) volume 6 pages 389-391 "The educational relevance of science fiction" by John Brunner.
Other Activities
Brunner was an active member of
CND and wrote the words to
The H-Bomb's Thunder which was sung on the
Aldermaston Marches. He was a linguist and Guest of Honour at the first European Science Fiction Convention
Eurocon-1 in
Trieste in
1972.
Bibliography
1950s
1960s
The Atlantic Abomination (1960)
Sanctuary in the Sky (1960)
The Skynappers (1960)
Slavers of Space (1960)
Meeting at Infinity (1961)
I Speak for Earth (1961, as Keith Woodcott)
The Ladder in the Sky (1962, as Keith Woodcott)
No Future in It (1962) short story collection
Secret Agent of Terra (1962)
The Super Barbarians (1962)
Castaways' World (1963)
The Dreaming Earth (1963)
Listen, the Stars! (1963)
The Rites of Ohe (1963)
The Space-Time Juggler (1963)
The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963)
The Psionic Menace (1963, as Keith Woodcott)
Endless Shadow (1964)
To Conquer Chaos (1964)
The Whole Man (1964, also published as Telepathist)
The Altar at/on Asconel (1965)
Day of the Star Cities (1965)
Enigma from Tantalus (1965)
The Long Result (1965)
The Martian Sphinx (1965, as Keith Woodcott)
The Repairmen of Cyclops (1965)
The Squares of the City (1965)
Now Then! (1965) short story collection
Born Under Mars (1966)
The Evil that Men Do (1966)
No Other Gods But Me (1966) short story collection
A Planet of Your Own (1966)
The Productions of Time (1966)
Out of My Mind (1967) short story collection
Quicksand (1967)
Not Before Time (1968) short story collection
Bedlam Planet (1968)
Catch a Falling Star (1968)
Father of Lies (1968)
Into the Slave Nebula (1968, revision of Slavers of Space)
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
The Avengers of Carrig (1969, revision of Secret Agent of Terra)
A Plague on Both Your Causes (1969)
Double, Double (1969)
Timescoop (1969)
The Jagged Orbit (1969)
Times Without Number (1969)
1970s
The Gaudy Shadows (1970)
Good Men Do Nothing (1970)
The Dramaturges of Yan (1971)
Honky in the Woodpile (1971)
The Traveller in Black (1971, later (1987) revised and expanded)
The Wrong End of Time (1971)
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
Entry to Elsewhen (1972), short story collection
The Stardroppers (1972)
From This Day Forward (1972)
Age of Miracles (1971, revision of Day of the Star Cities)
More Things in Heaven (1973, revision of The Astronauts Must Not Land)
The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)
Give Warning to the World (1973, revision of Echo in the Skull)
Polymath (1974)
Total Eclipse (1974)
Web of Everywhere (1974) (later reprinted as The Webs of Everywhere)
The Shockwave Rider (1975)
Interstellar Empire (1976)
1980s
The Infinitive of Go (1980)
Players at the Game of People (1980)
Manshape (1982, revision of Endless Shadow)
While There's Hope (1982)
The Crucible of Time (1983)
The Great Steamboat Race (1983)
The Tides of Time (1984)
The Compleat Traveller in Black (1986) short story collection
The Shift Key (1987)
Children of the Thunder (1988)
1990s
A Maze of Stars (1991)
Muddle Earth (1993)
Case of Painter's Ear (1998, posthumous)Further Information
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