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Publication Order of Empire Books

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

Threshold of Eternity (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

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

A Case of Painter's Ear (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Call of Cthulhu Fiction Books

The Shub-Niggurath Cycle (By:) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Azathoth Cycle (By:) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of Iod (By:) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Nyarlathotep Cycle (By:) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Xothic Legend Cycle (By:,Lin Carter) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Innsmouth Cycle (By:) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ithaqua Cycle (By:) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Antarktos Cycle (By:) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Yellow Sign & Other Stories (By:,Robert W. Chambers) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Tsathoggua Cycle (By:) (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Complete Pegāna: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegāna (By:) (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Complete Peg?na (By:) (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon (By:) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Yith Cycle (By:) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Thieves' World Books

Thieves' World (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shadows of Sanctuary (With: Philip Jose Farmer,Joe Haldeman,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Storm Season (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Face of Chaos (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wings of Omen (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dead of Winter (By:Robert Lynn Asprin) (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Soul of the City (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blood Ties (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Aftermath (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Uneasy Alliances (By:Robert Lynn Asprin) (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stealers' Sky (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sanctuary (By:Lynn Abbey) (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Turning Points (By:Dennis L. McKiernan,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Raymond E. Feist) (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Enemies of Fortune (By:C.J. Cherryh,Jody Lynn Nye,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Robin Wayne Bailey,Jeff Grubb) (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books

Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (By:Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,,Alan Dean Foster,,Randall Garrett,,,George Scithers) (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (With: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,,,,,,,,Somtow Sucharitkul,,,George Scithers) (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own (By:Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,,Mary Gentle) (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (By:) (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (By:Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,,Lillian Carl) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Aliens (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Robots (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (By:Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's War (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (By:Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Christmas (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Camelot (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Valentines (By:Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (By:Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Solar System (By:Gardner Dozois) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Halloween (By:Isaac Asimov) (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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