John Brunner Books In Order
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Castaway's World / Polymath | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Space-Time Juggler | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Altar at Asconel | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Max Curfew Books
A Plague On Both Your Causes | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Good Men Do Nothing. | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Honky in the Woodpile | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Brink | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch a Falling Star / The Hundredth Millennium | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Echo in the Skull / Give Warning to the World | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World Swappers | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Atlantic Abomination | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sanctuary in the Sky | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skynappers | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slavers of Space / Into the Slave Nebula | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Speak for Earth | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meeting at Infinity | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Agent of Terra / The Avengers of Carrig | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Super Barbarians | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Times Without Number | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Listen! The Stars! / The Stardroppers | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ladder in the Sky | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Astronauts Must Not Land / More Things in Heaven | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreaming Earth | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Psionic Menace | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rites of Ohe | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The crutch of memory | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Endless Shadow / Manshape | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Conquer Chaos | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whole Man / The Telepathist | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Day of the Star Cities / Age of Miracles | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enigma from Tantalus | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Result | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Martian Sphinx | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Squares of the City | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wear the Butchers' Medal | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Repairmen of Cyclops | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Planet of Your Own | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Productions of Time | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quicksand | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Born Under Mars | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bedlam Planet | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stand on Zanzibar | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Is the Color | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double, Double | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jagged Orbit | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Timescoop | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gaudy Shadows | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Work | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wrong End of Time | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dramaturges of Yan | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sheep Look Up | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stone that Never Came Down | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Total Eclipse | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Webs of Everywhere | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shockwave Rider | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Infinitive of Go | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Players at the Game of People | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
While There's Hope | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Steamboat Race | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crucible of Time | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tides of Time | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shift Key | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Days Of March | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of the Thunder | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Maze of Stars | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Muddle Earth | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galactic Storm | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
No Future in It | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Now Then! | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Other Gods But Me | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of My Mind | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Father of Lies / Mirror Image | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not Before Time | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traveller in Black | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Entry to Elsewhen | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time-Jump | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From This Day Forward | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of John Brunner | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomorrow May Be Even Worse | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foreign Constellations | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A New Settlement of Old Scores | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of John Brunner | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of the Thunder / The Tides of Time / The Crucible of Time | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
Publication Order of Call of Cthulhu Fiction Books
The Shub-Niggurath Cycle | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Azathoth Cycle | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Iod | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nyarlathotep Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Xothic Legend Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Innsmouth Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ithaqua Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Antarktos Cycle | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Sign & Other Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tsathoggua Cycle | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Pegāna: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegāna | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Peg?na | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yith Cycle | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Thieves' World Books
Thieves' World | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows of Sanctuary | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Storm Season | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Face of Chaos | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wings of Omen | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead of Winter | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soul of the City | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Ties | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aftermath | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uneasy Alliances | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stealers' Sky | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sanctuary | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turning Points | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enemies of Fortune | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Valentines | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Alien Worlds | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Visions 3 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Visions | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Tales of Unease | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Against Man | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stopwatch | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wondermakers 2 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Late Great Future | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of British SF 1 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows of Sanctuary | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales From the Forbidden Planet | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Drabble Project | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Fantasies | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Voices 2 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond the Gate of Worlds | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the King | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Touch Wood | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Terror | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Voices 6 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Necronomicon | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1996 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Pleasures 2 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fleet | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Shadow of Frankenstein | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Brunner was a renowned British novelist of science fiction, thriller, and fantasy novels. He has written a number of successful standalone novels in the science fiction/fantasy genre. Brunner has also written several spy fiction stories, short story collections, poetry, non-genre, pornography, and translation works. 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. Brunner also won the BSFA award for the same book in the same year. His novel, The Jagged Orbit, also won the 1970 BSFA award. Brunner was born as John Kilian Houston Brunner on September 24, 1934, in Preston Crowmarch, Wallingford Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. He did his schooling from St. Andrew’s Prep School in Pangbourne and completed his college studies from Cheltenham College.
Brunner penned his first book at the age of 17 and named it Galactic Storm. This book was published under the pseudonym of Gill Hunt. Brunner did not attempt to write on a full-time basis until 1958, a few years after leaving the military service. For two years between 1953 and 1955, he was employed in the RAF. Brunner married Marjorie R. Sauer in 1958. During the earlier days of his career, Brunner did not have an easy relationship with the new wave writers of the UK. He was often considered too American by them due to his themes and settings. Brunner tried to shift his readership to a more mainstream medium during the early 80s, but did not achieve any success in it. Before Brunner’s death in 1995, a lot of his books had gone out of print. He claimed that it was a conspiracy of the publishers against him. However, this accusation was not taken seriously as most of the people who knew him well were aware that he was a difficult man to deal with. Brunner’s wife, Marjorie Brunner, used to handle his publishing relations until her death.
In the 1980s, Brunner’s health started to deteriorate and worsened after the death of Marjorie in 1986. In 1991, Brunner married for the second time and took Li Yi Tan as his second wife. Brunner’s death occurred on August 25, 1995, in Glasgow, Scotland due to a heart attack. He has gone there to attend the WSFC. He had initially started his career by writing conventional stories of space opera. Later, he started experimenting with full-length novels. The Zanzibar novel is written in the fragmented organizational writing style that was created by an American writer named John Dos Passos. Brunner went a step ahead and updated the style with the theory of media that was popularized by Marshall McLuhan, a reputed Canadian academic and major cultural figure. Author Brunner is given the credit of coming up with the term ‘worm’ and for also giving the correct prediction of computer viruses’ emergence.
In his 1975 book called The Shockwave Rider, Brunner has used the term ‘worm’ for describing software that reproduces themselves across a network. His work in this novel is also credited for giving insights about several modern developments like online encyclopedias, cannabis legalization, genetic engineering, viagra development, same-sex marriage, etc. Throughout the course of his writing career, Brunner used multiple pen names for publishing his books. Some of the prominent ones include John Loxmith, Ellis Quick, K.H. Brunner, Keith Woodcott, Gill Hunt, Trevor Staines, Kilian Houston Brunner, and Henry Crosstrees Jr. Other than writing fiction, he wrote poetry. His numerous unpaid articles have been published in various magazines. He was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament organization. Brunner was a translator, linguist, and the Chief Guest at the debut European Convention of Science Fiction called Eurocoon-1, held in 1972 in Trieste. Amicus Productions had hired him for writing the screenplay of their 1967 science fiction movie called The Terrornauts. A couple of short stories penned by Brunner have been adapted into TV plays and broadcast on BBC.
A successful book written by author John Brunner is the 1965 Hugo Award-nominated novel entitled ‘The Whole Man’. It was released in 1964 by Collier Books. This book revolves around the life of the central character named Gerald Howson. Initially, it is depicted that Gerald Howson didn’t appear to be a normal man. He had a birth deformity that had left him with an ugly face and crippled legs. People hated his presence and did not like to look at his face. However, Gerald possessed the rare gift of being able to receive and send powerful thoughts. At first, he thought that the unique ability was quite odd and decided to use it to earn some money with its use. Later, when his ability was discovered by others, Gerald became so much powerful that he could heal people suffering from terrible psychological or emotional trauma. Gerald was also able to move into a phantasmagoric world filled with psychic imagining and return to the world of normal humans as per his own wish. Whatever decision Gerald Howson would make, the lives of numerous people around him and his own would get changed forever.
Another exciting book of Brunner’s career is called ‘The Jagged Orbit’. It was originally published in 1969 and re-released in 2000 by Victor Gollancz publication. The primary character of this novel is Matthew Flamen. Initially, Matthew is introduced as the last spoolpigeon of his network. He is desperately looking for a big story that would help him to keep his job and his audience. Matthew does not have any shortage of expected possibilities. He learns that the Gottschalk cartel is looking to sell their armaments. This makes it sure that the X Patriots are brewing something big. Also, a deadly revolutionary from Britain is about to get the permit to enter the United States. Another story that comes to Matthew Flamen’s attention is that of a New York-based Mental Hospital’s Director being a charlatan. This novel provides a scathing and brilliant vision of a society set on the path of disintegration under the influence of drugs, corruption, and violence. It went on to achieve a lot of success in many parts of the world. The novel was also nominated for the prestigious Nebula Award in 1969 and a BSFA in 1970.
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