Essef explores the aftermath of a seemingly successful matter transmitter invented by Justin Williams and Cinnamon Wright. Despite their hopes to revolutionize civilization, the initial human tests yield unexpected and troubling results.
John Brunner Books
September 24, 1934 – August 25, 1995
John Brunner was a visionary science fiction author who fearlessly experimented with novelistic form. His works frequently explored profound societal and ecological issues, such as overpopulation, weapons proliferation, and environmental catastrophe. Brunner excelled at crafting intricate narratives that reflected and anticipated reality, employing innovative stylistic techniques and prescient themes. His writing offers both a challenge and a provocation to readers seeking literature that pushes the boundaries of the genre.
The Sheep Look Up
- 486 pages
- 18 hours of reading
John Brunner's classic novel of ecological catastrophe, now more relevant than ever.
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.
In a society populated by mass-marketed psychedelics and eugenics, where everyone was struggling for life, Donald Hogan was a mild-mannered student, a dilettante intellectual - at least that's what everybody was supposed to think. But he was really a spy.
The tale occurs in 2014 USA. Interracial tension has passed a breaking point. The Mafia-like Gottschalks exploit this to sell weapons to all able to buy. A split develops within the cartel, between conservative old men & ambitious underlings prepared to use new computer technology to pull off spectacular coups. Several separate narrative strands follow particular characters. James Reedeth is a young psychologist at NY's major mental health institution who's disenchanted with his job & his employer, the reverend Elias Mogshack. Lyla Clay is a pythoness, a young woman capable of metabolising certain psychedelic drugs to enter trances in which she makes unconscious predictions. Matthew Flamen, a spoolpigeon (a kind of investigative journalist), is struggling to hold onto his job, & by obsessive behavior has driven his wife into Mogshack's asylum. The plot contrives to bring strands together & resolve matters by lengthy discussions between Flamen, Reedeth, Lyla Clay, Pedro Diablo (Flamen's African-American counterpart), Xavier Conroy (Mogshack's critic) & Harry Madison (a former asylum patient).
The Shockwave Rider
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
An electrifying novel about identity in the digital age from the Hugo and BSFA Award-winning author, John Brunner.
1st Orbit 1990 paperback new condition book In stock * from our UK warehouse
The far-flung fingers of Earth's civilisation touched many corners of the galaxy, and among them was the beautiful planet Yan. Here the colonists lived a peaceful, almost idyllic life, amid ancient and secret relics, co-existing with their strange and compatible neighbours. The arrival of Gregory Chart, the greatest dramatist ever, whose productions were played out in the skies, and whose actors were also the audience, could only disrupt and destroy once the Yanfolk were aroused from their dreaming indifference . . . (First published 1972)
A group of colonists come to the planet, Asgard, in the hope of discovering a paradise, but instead find harsh living conditions
Del Rey / Ballantine, 1983. Paperback, retitle of the 1974 novel "Web of Everywhere." A lesser known Brunner work; explores the unforeseen consequences of a teleportation device.
