@booklet {4206, title = {A Maze of Stars}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Tour of worlds seeded by humans showing their development. Most are dystopian; a few have eutopian elements.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {4019, title = {Children of the Thunder}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia with a low birthrate because most men are infertile, and the development of children with unusual talents who could lead to a solution.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {3357, title = {Manshape}, year = {1982}, note = {

Shorter version originally published as \"Bridge to Azrael.\"\ Amazing Stories\ 38.2 (February 1964): 6-78. Rpt. as\ Endless Shadow. New York: Ace Books, 1964.\ Ace Double bound with Gardner F. Fox, The Arsenal of Miracles (1964).\ 

}, month = {1982}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An Interstellar Bridge connects all the human worlds that had up to that point been isolated, but one world, Azrael, initially refuses to be connected. It has a unique social organization that does not value existence, and when connected it tries to export its beliefs to other worlds.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {3274, title = {While there{\textquoteright}s HOPE}, year = {1981}, month = {1981}, publisher = {Keepsake Press}, address = {Richmond, Surrey, Eng.}, abstract = {

Plan to achieve world peace through the voluntary exchange of hostages.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {3036, title = {"The Suicide of Man"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine}, volume = { 2.4 }, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best of John Brunner\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 239-66.

}, month = {July 1978}, pages = {160-85}, abstract = {

Future eutopia proves only a staging ground to an apparently higher existence.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2744, title = {The Shockwave Rider}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2664, title = {Web of Everywhere}, year = {1974}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1977.

}, month = {1974}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Future dystopia based on instant transportation to anyplace. The novel focuses on a man who visits places he is not supposed to visit.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2550, title = {The Stone That Never Came Down}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia with very strict rules regarding behavior that is also racist. The novel focuses on the spread of a drug that radically improves sense impressions and raises awareness that undermines the dystopia and sets the stage for a better society.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2461, title = {The Sheep Look Up}, year = {1972}, note = {

Rpt. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2003, with a brief \"Introduction\" by David Brin (xiii-xiv) and an \"Afterword\" by James John Bell (369-88) on the books environmental message; and Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009. 300 copy ed. illus. Dan J. O\’Driscoll and with an \“Introduction\” by Kim Stanley Robinson (7-11), \“John Brunner A Short Autobiography\” (409-35) by Brunner, \“John Brunner Interviewed by Ian Covell\” (437-55), and \“Noise Level\” (457-59) by Brunner reprinted from\ Science Fiction Review, no. 29 (January-February 1979): 15-16.\ 

}, month = {1972}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A pollution dystopia that presents a world of the near future in which it is necessary to always wear a filter mask whenever one is outside, most food has been contaminated by chemicals used in fertilizers, etc., the water is unsafe for drinking without boiling, etc. Added to this is the leaking of poison gas buried in mountains in Colorado into the water supply and into the food factory and the effects on those who eat the food. Widespread disease, unemployment, and starvation. The corrupt U.S. government is attempting to control the world economy for the benefit of U.S. corporations, and those trying to change the government are under attack. No man between sixteen and sixty can get a visa to leave the country unless they have served in the military or have a medical exemption. The main opposition group lives in an intentional community in Colorado. At the end of the year covered by the book, revolts are occurring throughout the U.S. and many cities are on fire.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2202, title = {The Jagged Orbit}, year = {1969}, month = {1969}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of violence in which it is necessary to be armed on the street.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2125, title = {Stand on Zanzibar}, year = {1968}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Orb, 2011 with a new \“Foreword The Happening World\” (vii-xiv) by Bruce Sterling; as the Collector\&$\#$39;s Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Vincent DiFate and with an \“Introduction\” (unpaged) by David Brin; as 300 copy ed. illus. Jacob McMurray and with an \“Introduction\” by Kim Stanley Robinson\” (9-13 misnumbered 7 in the Table of Contents) and \“Viewpoint. Childless Couples and Delinquent Children\” (549-56 misnumbered 543 in the Table of Contents) by Brunner rpt. from Science and Public Policy 12.3 (June 1985): 149-52. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009; and as New York: Tor Essentials, 2021, with the foreword \“The Happening World\” by Bruce Sterling from the Orb 2011 ed. (v-xii). Extracts were published in New Worlds Science Fiction 51.177 (November 1967): 34-49.

}, month = {1968}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

A complex novel that takes place in a future overpopulation and corporate dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2062, title = {Quicksand}, year = {1967}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia. Dictatorship of immortals. Sex as a drug. Neutered women act as sexual experts.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {2021, title = {"No Other Gods But Me"}, howpublished = {No Other Gods But Me}, year = {1966}, note = {

Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as \“A Time to Rend.\” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

}, month = {1966}, pages = {5-94}, publisher = {Compact Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {1982, title = {"Nobody Axed You"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction}, volume = { 48.150 }, year = {1965}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Time-Jump\ (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.

}, month = {May 1965}, pages = {49-81}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {1983, title = {The Squares of the City}, year = {1965}, month = {1965}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia set in a newly built, intended to be ideal, city in a South American dictatorship. The novel is modeled on a game of chess and deals with a power struggle between the dictator and his main opponent.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {1984, title = {"Wasted on the Young"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Magazine}, volume = { 23.4 }, year = {1965}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ From This Day Forward\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.

}, month = {April 1965}, pages = {95-105}, abstract = {

Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {1898, title = {The Dreaming Earth}, year = {1963}, note = {

U.K. ed. as\ The Dreaming Earth. Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick \& Jackson, 1972.

Originally serialized as \“Put Down the Earth.\” New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 107 -109 (June - August 1961): 4-47,\ 81-122, 77-127.

}, month = {1963}, publisher = {Pyramid}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia and the problems that arise from a drug induced euphoria that leads people to completely drop out. But the dropouts are actually dropping in to new, empty worlds presented as simple eutopias.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {8525, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Jack Fell Down{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Science Fiction Adventures (UK) }, volume = {6.31}, year = {1963}, note = {

Rpt. in Crime Prevention in the 30th Century. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (New York: Walker and Co., 1969), 1-38.

}, month = {March 1963}, pages = {44-82}, abstract = {

While the novella focuses on interplanetary politics, Earth is presented as a technological eutopia that had been brought about largely by the drop in population resulting from colonization.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {1853, title = {Times Without Number}, year = {1962}, note = {

Originally published as \“The Word Not Written.\” Science Fiction Adventures 4.26 [vol. 5 on cover] (May 1962): 62-100; \“Spoil of Yesterday.\” Science Fiction Adventures 4.25 [vol. 5 on cover] ([March] 1962): 2-40; and \“The Fullness of Time.\” Science Fiction Adventures 4.27 [vol. 5 on cover] ([July] 1962): 2-41. Rev. and exp. ed. of the book New York: Ace Books, 1969; rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. UK ed. London: Elmfield Press, 1974.\ The original stories, never before reprinted, can be found in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 13-165, with \“Spoil of Yesterday\” on 13-63, \“The Word Not Written\” on 65-114, and \“The Fullness of Time\” on 115-165.

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian alternative history in which England did not defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, and England became the center on the Spanish empire after Spain was re-conquered by Muslims.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {11587, title = {"The Analysts"}, howpublished = {Science Fantasy}, volume = {16.48}, year = {1961}, note = {

Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87.

}, month = {August 1961}, pages = {2-38}, abstract = {

Most of the story concerns a \“visualizer\” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-7123-5382-3}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} } @booklet {1840, title = {"Put Down This Earth"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction}, volume = {nos. 107 - 109 }, year = {1961}, month = {June - August 1961}, pages = {4-47; 81-120; 77-127}, abstract = {

Overpopulated, authoritarian dystopia. People escape through a drug that ultimately takes them to a new world.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95)} }