John Brunner

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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • The Productions of Time

    A down-on-his-luck actor finds himself directed toward self-sabotage in this science fiction thriller from the award-winning author of Stand on Zanzibar. In The Productions of Time, Murray Douglas has beaten his alcohol addiction, needs a new acting...

  • Judas

    in Dangerous Visions #3

  • Stand on Zanzibar

    • / Science Fiction
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    The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is lead...

  • The Totally Rich

    in The Late Great Future
    • / General Fiction
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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: • Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

  • The Whole Man

    Gerald Howson lived in a world where medical science could supply artificial nerves or any other part of a maimed body that was needed. Except for him. And Gerald had a gift of enormous power, which, if left to sicken in his grotesque body, wou...

  • The Wrong End of Time

    • / General Fiction
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    In the face of an alien threat, Russia and a xenophobic US must work together to save humanity in “one of the better science fiction novels of the year” (Library Journal). In a near future where a paranoid America has sealed itself off fr...

  • Total eclipse

    • / General Fiction
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    Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thous...

  • Entry to Elsewhen

    The UK author, John Brunner (1934-1995) wrote mostly of science fiction, though he published several thrillers, contemporary novels and volumes of poetry He began very early to submit science fiction stories to periodicals - several of these appeared...

  • The Book of John Brunner



  • The Shockwave Rider

    HE WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS FUGITIVE ALIVE, BUT HE DIDN'T EXIST! Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes... but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First h...

  • The Jagged Orbit

    Nebula Award Finalist:Mankind has been reduced to slavery by technology and surveillance, in this near-future novel from the author of Stand on Zanzibar. In The Jagged Orbit, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create Stand on Za...

  • Quicksand

    DAW Books, 1976. Paperback, first printing. This 1967 novel tells of a troubled psychiatrist trying to unravel the mystery behind a girl discovered wandering in the woods near a mental hospital. She speaks a language no one understands and doesn't se...

  • Interstellar Empire

    Once there was a mighty empire spanning the stars. Once there had been great emperors ruling hundreds of inhabited planets, patrolling the star lanes with fleets of starcruisers, built to the perfection of a technology never before seen by man.And li...

  • Avengers of Carrig

    Once the city of Carrig stood supreme on this planet that had been settled by space refugees in the distant, forgotten past. From every corner of this primitive lost world caravans came to trade - and to view the great King-Hunt, the gruesome test by...

  • Players at the Game of People

    GAMES PEOPLE PLAY-- OR GAMES PLAYED WITH PEOPLE! War hero, jet-setter, gourmet--Godwin Harpinshield was all of these and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame, wealth and power set them above the law and beyond the...

  • Timescoop

    A Pandora's box of evilFreitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past.Now all the riches of the ages were his for the taking. But mere wealth was not what Freitas was after. Suprem...

  • To Conquer Chaos

    The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference. It had been there so long that it was endured, as were the twisted monsters that wandered out of the barrenland and killed. Conrad,...

  • Sheep Look Up

    An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of Earth. In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and e...

  • The Long Result

    When racial hatred turns to murderous menace . . . First a rocket ship loses its engines on take-off and is destroyed. On board - an important extra-terrestrial visitor. Next someone slams into the sealed vehicle used for transporting aliens around i...



  • The Repairmen of Cyclops

    The Corps Galactica, the Galaxy's police force, had pledged itself to a policy of non-interference with the backward Zarathustra Refugee Planets. Langenschmidt, the Corps chief on the planet Cyclops, was content with this ruling. After all, if the re...

  • Catch a Falling Star

  • Manshape

    The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity Spread through dozens of planets, men and their societies had drifted apart in isolation until the Bridge came to link together humanity's multifold worl...

  • Polymath

    Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster...

  • Bedlam Planet

    Everything about the planet revolving about Sigma Draconis seemed to indicate that here was a world that could be made into a second Earth. It was fertile and lacked native inhabitants and dangerous beasts. Then what was troubling the pioneer colony ...

  • The Dramaturges of Yan

    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 an...

  • The Webs of Everywhere

  • Times Without Number

    If the past is tampered with, the present might be totally transformed. So the whole fabric of reality depends on the watchful efforts of the Society of Time. Don Miguel Navarro is a junior officer in this force dedicated to defending the Spanish Emp...

  • The Great Steamboat Race

  • The Crucible of Time

    Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society...



  • The Tides of Time

    First there was the end. After weeks of running from pursuers, Gene and Stacy finally found refuge on an isolated island. But around them the island changed - and so did they. Each time they awoke from sleep, they lived a different life in a diffe...

  • Age of Miracles

    When suddenly all the fissionable material on Earth was exploded, Earthmen had their first notice of the aliens' arrival. And by the time the panic, death and chaos had been sorted out, reports were coming in about mysterious cities scattered across...

  • The Compleat Traveller in Black

    • / Science Fiction
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    This is a collection of stories of the Traveller in Black. It is set in a world where chaos rules. One man - the man with many names, but one nature - is charged with creating order out of the warring forces of nature....

  • More Things in Heaven

    A revised version of THE ASTRONAUTS MUST NOT LAND (1963). It isn't every day that the impossible happens. But when it does, and you're a witness, you have to start looking for answers. The authorities won't talk. So you decide to find out for yoursel...

  • An Elixir for the Emperor

    in The Eternal City

    Collecting tales of Roman glory and decadence written by science fiction authors, this melding of past and future themes includes stories by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, David Drake, and Robert E. Howard...

  • Children of the Thunder

    Telepathic children hold the fate of humanity in their hands in this “compulsively readable novel” from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Washington Post). In Children of the Thunder, Brunner creates another ne...

  • Victims of the Nova

  • A Maze of Stars

    • / Science Fiction
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    A thought-provoking novel of a sentient spaceship’s voyages, from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar. One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to ...

  • The Squares of the City

    • / Science Fiction
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    Ballantine Books, 1965. paperback, 3rd printing stated. Hugo nominee and British Fantasy Award winner. This novel explores the idea of subliminal messages as political tools, and it is notable for having the structure of a famous 1892 chess game betw...

  • Muddle Earth

    ANNOUNCING THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE TALK OF THE GALAXY! MEET: - The cryogenic resurrectee Rinpoche Gibbs. He's not surprised to awaken in the twenty-fourth century, cured of cancer. He is, however, very surprised by everything else... ...



  • The Killing Game

  • New Settlement of Old Scores

    This songbook contains twenty songs by Brunner with original lyrics and some original music. Music is provided for all songs. Each song is illustrated by a different sf or fantasy artist. Available in perfect or GBC (comb) binding....

  • Tomorrow May Be Even Worse

  • The Altar at Asconel

    Whether or not he had wanted to turn back at the last minute, he couldn't have - the wave of dirty, hungry people carried him helplessly along in their fervour reach the temple. Like dope addicts, he told himself, they don't even care about themselve...

  • Born Under Mars

    When mankind colonized the stars, they travelled out from Earth in two directions - to Centaurus and its Southern Hemisphere neighbours and to Ursa Major and the constellations around Polaris. And strange to say the humans who settled on those variou...

  • Enigma from Tantalus

    'We won't be landing anywhere just yet', Waters said to the other passengers on the spaceship Fulmar. 'I was pretty mystified by this story of mechanical breakdown, so I've been checking up.' He hefted his little box. 'I've spent the past half hour s...

  • I Speak for Earth

    'One citizen of your planet shall go to the capital of the Federation of Worlds. He shall live there for thirty days. If your representative can survive and demonstrate his ability to exist in a civilized society with creatures whose outward appea...

  • Into the Slave Nebula

    It was carnival time on Earth. Prosperity was at its peak; science had triumphed over environment; all human needs were taken care of by computers, robots and androids. There was nothing left for humans to do but enjoy, themselves . . . to seek pleas...

  • The Martian Sphinx

    By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population. A solution had to be found quickly - and it was, in 'gravi-power'. Wonderful, unending source of power - only the scientists knew that its use was reducing the Earth's distance...

  • Meeting at Infinity

    Allyn Vage was once a beautiful woman, but due to an accident - which may have been a murder attempt - she was now a hopeless cripple, burned and disfigured and without the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. When they brought her to Jo...



  • A Planet of Your Own

    Kynance Foy was young, beautiful, intelligent an highly trained in both qua-space physics and business law when she left Earth to seek her fortune in the interstellar outworlds. But she found that the further she got from Earth, the tougher became th...

  • The Rites of Ohe

    'How short a time a century really is . . .' The speaker was Immortal Karmesin, and he had lived a thousand years. He stood, a gigantic figure against the rush of time, a permanently open channel for the infants of the galaxy to explore the deep p...

  • The Shift Key

    When the sleepy town of Weyharrow is enveloped by a mysterious fog, the inhabitants find themselves behaving in strange and dangerous ways. Dr Steven Glaze, a young probationary GP, prescribes a most unorthodox treatment for arthritis; the vicar proc...

  • The Stardroppers

    A stardropper got its name from the belief that the user was eavesdropping on the stars. But that was only a guess . . . nobody really knew what the instrument did. The instrument itself made no sense scientifically. A conventional earpiece, an ampli...

  • The Super Barbarians

    The Acre was the only part of an entire world where Earthmen were allowed to live as they pleased and as they were accustomed. For elsewhere on Quallavarra, humanity was forced into servitude by the Vorra, THE SUPER BARBARIANS, who has somehow manage...

  • Web of Everywhere

    He was 'The Visitor' . . .in a society revolutionised and troubled by a transportation device that let you walk through a door and be anywhere in the world - instantly. He was 'The Visitor' . . . at a time when unauthorised travel had caused the viol...

  • The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories

    John Brunner is known for his science-fiction and ecology-minded novels, but thanks to John Pelan, we have collected the stories he wrote in the 70s, 80s and 90s about the man named Secrett. In his introduction Pelan tells more about the enigmatic wr...

  • The Gaudy Shadows

    Tileman could make our fantasies come true - create reality from your dreams - for a very high fee. Catering to the desires of London's most powerful - and decadent - figures, Tileman had top-level connections to guarantee him protection and influenc...

  • The Psionic Menace

    MUST THE UNIVERSE DIE WITH THEM?The Starfolk, arrogant masters of vast stretches of the cosmos beyond the Earth's sphere of influence, were determined to complete the extermination of the mind-reading mutants of Regnier's planet.But to the mutants th...

  • The Skynappers

    When Ivan Wright stepped out of his mountain cabin, rifle in hand, to investigate the sound of a strange helicopter, he stepped right into the middle of a galactic crisis.

    For the crew of that odd aircraft were not men such as he'd ever see...

  • Sanctuary in the Sky

    A cold war among the stars was growing hotter by the minute. As Pag and Cathrodyne struggled for domination, a hot war threatened which would rend and annihilate whole planetary systems. The two master races would have consumed one another long ago, ...

  • The Atlantic Abomination

    An alien hidden in the ocean’s depths is awakened -- and wreaks havoc on mankind -- in this science fiction classic from the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author. In The Atlantic Abomination, an exploratory expedition to the bottom of the ocean discovers t...

  • Out of My Mind

    Thirteen stories of the past, present, and future from the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of Stand on Zanzibar. In Out of My Mind, John Brunner, in mid-career, selects a double-handful and more of what he considers his best work to date, thirteen storie...

  • The World Swappers

    A “very enjoyable” novel of first alien contact from the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (Frederick Pohl). While two very different men -- Counce, who has strange powers and a formidable intellect, and Bassett, a master of money,...

  • From This Day Forward

    “Speculation is compounded with suspense” in these thirteen short works of sci-fi from the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of Stand on Zanzibar -- “Genuine startlers” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Collected when Brunner was at the peak of his...

  • The Space-Time Juggler

    In the long twilight if a galactic empire, the old king is dying. He has little choice but to name his callow young son as heir and his wanton daughter as regent. It seems the long decline is destined to continue. But everything is changed by the app...

  • The Stone That Never Came Down

    “A world on the brink of war . . . Credible characters, suspenseful plotting and Brunner’s broad vision make this humane novel a winner” (Kirkus Reviews). The world is awash in civic decay, military coups and revolutionary governments, bands ...

  • Double, Double

    In Double, Double, a random collection of strangers converges on a seaside town, not knowing one another and having nothing in common. A mystery from the sea, a shape-shifter, begins to take over the people and produce oddly behaving duplicates of th...

  • The Ladder in the Sky

    A young man must deal with the consequences of a demonic possession -- from the science fiction author whose “best writing is turbo-charged with ideas” (BBC). In The Ladder in the Sky, a starving youth, trapped in poverty and with no hope of esca...

  • The Brink

    Ed Carter, a New York reporter on his way to his home town in Omaha for a short vacation, saw the missile in the last moments in its journey back to earth. A sweller on the brink, like all of us, he had no doubt about what it was; Oh God, he thought,...

  • Black Is the Color

    John Brunner is best known for his dystopian novels written 40 years ago, like THE SHEEP LOOK UP and STAND ON ZANZIBAR, but in 1969 he wrote a novel of swinging London and its underworld of sex and voodoo. For the first time since its initial publica...

  • Three Trips in Time and Space

    Each major advance in the technology of communication or transportation has brought profound transformations and dislocations to human society. Three of science fiction's greatest authors--Larry Niven, Jack Vance, John Brunner--explore what would hap...

  • Galactic Storm

    GALACTIC STORM tells the tale of a young genius who uses a supercomputer to discover an alarming trend of global warming that will see half the world's ice-caps melted within fifty years. This leads to an expedition to the South Pole to investigate t...

  • Kingdom of the Worlds

    This unique novel represents a collaboration between two greats of science fantasy writing, published for the first time on the SF Gateway.Between 1956 and 1962, John Brunner wrote three novellas that blurred the boundaries between science fiction an...

  • The Society of Time

  • Give Warning to the World

    • / General Fiction
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    Are there aliens among us? Are the chariots of the gods returning? If so - are they for us or against us? John Brunner, award-winning author and science fiction writer extraordinary, takes the questions now on everyone's mind, and gives one possible...

  • The Infinitive of Go

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    CODE NAME POSTERThe first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought. In spite of paranoid security restrictions, Justin Williams and Cinnamon Wright, co-inventors of the device, counted on it to revolutionise civilisation and...

Award-Winning Books by John Brunner

Stand on Zanzibar
1969 Hugo Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Brunner has published 76 books.

John Brunner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Society of Time, was published in October 2021.

The first book by John Brunner, The Productions of Time, was published in January 1967.

No. John Brunner does not write books in series.
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