The Shockwave Rider
| Title | The Shockwave Rider |
| Year for Search | 1975 |
| Authors | Brunner, John [Kilian Houston](1934-95) |
| Date Published | 1975 |
| Publisher | Harper & Row |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | A complex dystopia that has an embedded eutopia opposed to the dystopia. The focus of the dystopia is on a program to identify geniuses, particularly among orphans and other children who can be taken without being noticed. They are then educated and trained (brainwashed and conditioned) to develop their particular bent so as to be most useful to the system. One man uses his talent with computer systems to escape, although much of the novel follows him as his memories are searched after he is captured. The eutopia, called Precipice, is a small town with advanced, ecologically sensitive architecture, a radically decentralized political system, and an egalitarian population. The man, who again escapes, uses his talents to save Precipice from attack by the government. |
| Info Notes | Published with unauthorized cuts. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1934-95) |
| Full Text | 1975 Brunner, John [Kilian Houston] (1934-95). The Shockwave Rider. A complex dystopia that has an embedded eutopia opposed to the dystopia. The focus of the dystopia is on a program to identify geniuses, particularly among orphans and other children who can be taken without being noticed. They are then educated and trained (brainwashed and conditioned) to develop their particular bent so as to be most useful to the system. One man uses his talent with computer systems to escape, although much of the novel follows him as his memories are searched after he is captured. The eutopia, called Precipice, is a small town with advanced, ecologically sensitive architecture, a radically decentralized political system, and an egalitarian population. The man, who again escapes, uses his talents to save Precipice from attack by the government. |
