John Kilian Houston Brunner, 1934-1995. British author
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Finding-Aid for the Brunner Papers [00154]Collection Description
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A major figure in the science fiction genre, Brunner was at his best combining extrapolative exhilaration and the nightmare of future shock. Stand on Zanzibar (1968) with its focus on overpopulation was his recognized blockbuster, winning the coveted Hugo award. It slightly overshadows its companion volumes The Jagged Orbit (1969), The Sheep Look Up (1972) -- a scarifying polemic against pollution which ends with the stench of all America burning -- and The Shockwave Rider (1975), prophetically mapping problems of information overload, computer viruses, rampant hacking and the net. Before his sudden death in 1995, Brunner (who also wrote under the pseudonyms Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Kilian Houston Brunner, Trevor Staine, and Keith Woodcott) won many awards from the science fiction community.
The Washington University holds a typescript carbon copy of Brunner's novel Quicksand (1967), autographed by the author. Brunner presented the ts. to Noreascon II to be auctioned off at its 1980 convention.
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Brunner, John Kilian Houston, 1934-1995. British author