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The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with ...

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The Sheep Look Up

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thi...

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The Shockwave Rider

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing...

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The Jagged Orbit

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely ...

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What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incap...

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Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then...

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The Sheep Look Up

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us...

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The Sheep Look Up

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He h...

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The Sheep Look Up

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is n...

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The Shockwave Rider

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the b...

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It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in orde...

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Stand on Zanzibar

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

Stand on Zanzibar

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

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The Compleat Traveller in Black

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves t...

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to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards ...

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The Infinitive of Go

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was ...

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The Jagged Orbit

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John Brunner

Author

Born: 1934-09-24

Died: 1995-08-25

John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a science fiction author. His work in the new wave sub-genre is highly acclaimed and influential. His earlier (prolific, often pseudonymous) space operas are generally considered unremarkable.More