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John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 25 August 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar , about an overpopulated world , won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA award the same year.
Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopian New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first in part published in NEW WORLDS in 1967 and in book form in 1968.
John Brunner has 542 books on Goodreads with 153807 ratings. John Brunner’s most popular book is Stand on Zanzibar.
May 10, 2019 · In the first of BBC Culture’s new series on fiction that predicted the future, Hephzibah Anderson looks at the work of John Brunner, whose vision of 2010 was eerily accurate.
Aug 26, 1995 · His 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" exploits the fragmented organizational style John Dos Passos invented for his USA trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of. John Brunner was born in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrew's Prep School, Pangbourne, then to Cheltenham College.
John Brunner. Writer: The Terrornauts. 'John Brunner''s first novel, "Galactic Storm", was published in 1951 when he was 17 years old. Numerous popular novels continued over the next two decades including "The Atlantic Abomination" (1960) and "Squares of the City" (1965).
Whilst Stand on Zanzibar didn’t exactly predict 9/11, terrorism in Brunner’s 2010 has become a major concern in the United States, with several terrorist attacks having been carried out on American buildings. The main theme of the novel is overpopulation.
John Kilian Houston Brunner. born Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire: 24 September 1934. died Glasgow, Scotland: 25 August 1995. works. The complex textual history of Brunner's early titles discussed in the body of the entry above is there given; titles not discussed are given a full history below, when known. series. Zarathustra Refugee Planets
Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of 2010, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.
Author John Brunner's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
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