Bøger af John Brunner

An electrifying novel about identity in the digital age from the Hugo and BSFA Award-winning author, 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.

El rebaño ciego es, en mi opinión y por todo tipo de razones, la mejor novela de ciencia-ficción jamás escrita, sin discusión. -John Grant, coeditor de The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction La contaminación atmosférica ha llegado a tales extremos que ponerse una máscara de gas para salir a la calle es ahora lo más corriente del mundo. Las tasas de mortandad infantil siguen subiendo, y todo el mundo parece estar aquejado de algún tipo de enfermedad. El agua es tóxica y sólo los pobres beben del grifo. Las acciones del gobierno son inútiles, cuando las emprende, y las grandes corporaciones se disputan los beneficios de las ventas de purificadores de agua, máscaras de gas y alimentos biológicos. El ecologista Austin Train vive a la carrera. Los trainitas, activistas medioambientales y terroristas ocasionales, quieren que encabece su movimiento. El gobierno lo quiere entre rejas o, a ser posible, ejecutado. Los medios de comunicación quieren espectáculo. Todo el mundo tiene algún plan para Train, pero él ya ha trazado los suyos. Y pronto dejará de correr... El legendario autor de ciencia-ficción John Brunner, galardonado con el Premio Hugo y dos veces ganador del British Science Fiction Award, un visionario, predijo la creación de Internet y acuñó el término gusano para describir ciertos virus informáticos. Brunner participó activamente en la comunidad de la ciencia-ficción; asistió a multitud de convenciones y contribuyó al género con decenas de novelas. Sus ideas políticas acerca de la superpoblación, el control de la información, los conflictos raciales y el medio ambiente dictan el tono de sus obras más conocidas: la ganadora del Hugo Todos sobre Zanzíbar, la ciberpunk El jinete de la onda de choque, Órbita inestable y El rebaño ciego. John Brunner nos abandonó en 1995. Introducción a cargo de David Brin Epílogo del ecologista James John Bell Una obra maestra de trágica complejidad... John Brunner es el Rachel Carson de la ciencia-ficción. -Ian Watson La mejor novela de Brunner que he leído... asombrosamente controlada y dramática... una obra de arte. -James Blish Absorbente, tanto a nivel emocional como intelectual. -Booklist Brunner se ha labrado un lugar en la cima de la literatura especulativa más seria. -Library Journal Una descomunal alucinación del estertóreo fin del mundo por parte de uno de nuestros autores de ciencia-ficción con más talento... la novela, con su sobrecogedora propuesta de una biosfera devastada, impacta a todos los niveles. -Kirkus Reviews Un cautivador diario de la que se nos avecina... el futuro elige el método de pago contra reembolso. -Washington Post

Each major advance in the technology of communication or transportation has brought profound transformations and dislocations to human society. Three of science fiction's greatest authors-Larry Niven, Jack Vance, John Brunner-explore what would happen if teleportation were invented.Suppose it were possible, technologically and economically, to transport oneself to any point on the earth's surface in virtually instantaneous travel? Let us have trips in time as well as in space... a quick passport not merely from Brooklyn to Arabia but to Arabia in the time of Mohammed, tours to the dawn of history or to the end of time. If all things are possible, if all gates stand open, what sort of world will we have? This is the challenge Robert Silverberg poses, to which three of science fiction's highest award-winners have responded with a trio of short novels displaying the variety and scope that outstanding literary craftsmen can bring to the same basic concept.In "Flash Crowd" Larry Niven describes some of the social perils that may follow instantaneous travel. In "You'll Take the High Road" John Brunner's hero finds that man's technological accomplishments are steadily matched by his perfection of the snafu. "Rumfuddle" is Jack Vance's eerie tale of historical coincidences.

Now in a Tor Essentials edition, the Hugo Award-winning, uncannily prophetic Stand on Zanizbar is a science fiction novel unlike any before in that remains an insightful look at America's downfall that allows us to see what has been, what is, and what is to come."There are certain things John Brunner achieved, which no one has done before or since." - Bruce SterlingGenetic engineering is routine, corporations have usurped democracy, technology governs human relationship, and mass-marketed psychosomatic drugs keep billions docile. The systems of the United States are universal in reach and out of control. Every citizen is its victim. . . and its creator.With an introduction by cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling, author of Distraction and Islands In the Net.Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.

In three fascinating and ground-breaking novellas, John Brunner weaves an ingenious tale of a divergent and compelling timeline, and poses complex questions of how we perceive the fourth dimension and its relation to our own identity.

Nebula Award Finalist: A ';brilliantly crafted, engrossing' dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Awardwinning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian). In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkableunless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government. Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The ';trainites,' a group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their movement; the government wants him dead; and the media demands amusement. But Train just wants to survive. More than a novel of science fiction, The Sheep Look Up is a skillful and frightening political and social commentary that takes its place next to other remarkable works of dystopian literature, such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's 1984.

The legendary John Brunner wrote the original Threshold of Eternity in 1957. Sixty years later Damien Broderick revisits the world Brunner created in that classic, forward-looking story and modernizes it to retell the exciting tale of time travelers, augmented intelligences and aliens. When Korean war vet Ret. Corporal Lawrence “Red” Hawkins stumbles across a doctor from the future, he embarks on the most important journey of his life…with the future of humanity at stake. For he must travel thousands of years into the future to join in a galactic Time War where alien beings are poised to eradicate humanity in a conflict that never ends. Spearheading the fight against the alien race (known only as the Enemy) is Artesha, a human so advanced, so damaged by a war she’s been fighting across endless time and space, that her physical form has been destroyed; she not only has been uploaded into the Center’s web where she runs humanity’s vast communication network—she has become it. While Artesha tries to calculate the best way to victory in a playing field being continuously altered by time surges, it is all that she and her fleet coordinators, Paulo Magwareet and Burma Brahmasutra, can do to keep up with the fallout. For there is also another presence at play whom the humans know as the Being, and the Enemy label the Beast. It will take all of the time travelers, across many different eras of humanity, working together to uncover this mysterious entity’s goal, to make right a time torn asunder so they can forge a future for the human race. 

Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created a future world as real as this morning's newspaper ... With a new introduction by Ken MacLeod.