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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.
- 1951–95
- 25 August 1995 (aged 60), Glasgow, Scotland
- John Kilian Houston Brunner, 24 September 1934, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
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Aug 26, 1995 · John Brunner (Author of Stand on Zanzibar) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of John Brunner's books. Join Goodreads. John Brunner’s Followers (433) Born. in Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, England, The United Kingdom. September 24, 1934. Died. August 26, 1995. Genre. Science Fiction & Fantasy. Influences.
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Some of the notable works of author Brunner include The Sheep Look Up, Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, The Shockwave Rider, etc. He is the winner of the 1969 Hugo Award for his 1968 book called Stand on Zanzibar.
John Brunner has 540 books on Goodreads with 153345 ratings. John Brunner’s most popular book is Stand on Zanzibar.
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. The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award .
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The 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today. 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...
Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering.
