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John Brunner
By the Author
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…
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…
Threshold of Eternity
Because of a twist in the structure of Time, three strangers were brought unexpectedly together: Red Hawkins of California, Chantal Vareze of London and a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Wrong End of Time
The time is the future. The place, an America so isolated by fear that it is cut off from the rest of the world by…
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…
Give Warning to the World
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…
Children of the Thunder
Britain in the near future: the country is heading toward ecological disaster, chemical waste is seeping into people's brains, deadly parasites contaminate food - and…
Stand On Zanzibar
There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by…
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,…
A Maze of Stars
Among the six hundred thousand stars in the vast Arm of Stars, over six hundred planets had been seeded with human stock by the greatest…
Players at the Game of People
War hero, jet-setter, gourmet - Godwin Harpinshield was all of those and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame,…
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…
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…
The Atlantic Abomination
AWAKEN, TERROR! When the first expedition descended to the bottom of the Atlantic in a perfected high-pressure diving bell, their speculation ran wild as to…
The Infinitive of Go
CODE NAME POSTER The first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought. In spite of paranoid security restrictions, Justin Williams and Cinnamon…
The Crucible of Time
Life had become too interesting on one world crawling across the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy. For as the system moved it swept up…
The World Swappers
The inhabited galaxy was caught in the crushing vice of a struggle for power. The political titans of the planets of mankind were making their…
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…
The Ladder in the Sky
The man in black picked up something which had been leaning beside him. A ring perhaps two feet wide . . . yet when the…
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…
The Dreaming Earth
A daring novel of mankind's strange and startling destiny. . . Here is a novel to equal Arthur C. Clarke's great work, Childhood's End. It…
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,…
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…
Telepathist
Howson was a runt. Twisted, ugly, crippled. The kind of guy people just didn't want to know. But when he took a deep breath, braced…
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…
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 -…
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'.…
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…
The Squares of the City
Ciudad de Vados was the pride of Latin America - a gleaming city of the future where only ten years before there had been barren…
The (Compleat) Traveller in Black
The time was the unguessably remote past - or perhaps the distant future. Throughout the universe, Chaos ruled. Scientific laws of cause and effect held…
The Productions of Time
Until he became an alcoholic, Murray Douglas was one of Britain's leading actors. Now, after treatment, he's ready to resume his career, but his first…
Quicksand
She appeared in our world naked, defenceless, unable to say a word anyone could understand. Her origin was at first simply a puzzle, then a…
Catch a Falling Star
A hundred thousand years from now, it was discovered that a star was approaching the world on a collision course. Its discoverer, Creohan, figured there…
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,…
The 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…
Double, Double
Inkosi - the magnificent Ridgeback Bruno and Hermetic Tradition - a pop-rock-mod group consisting in part of Bruno Twentyman, Cressida Beggarstaff, Gideon Hard, Liz, Nancy,…
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…
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…
The Stardroppers
A stardropper got its name from the belief that the user was eavesdropping on the stars. But that was only a guess . . .…
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…
The Stone That Never Came Down
There was a cure for depression and unemployment. There was a cure for war, madness and national hatreds. There was a cure for prejudice, crime…
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…
Total Eclipse
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Timescoop
A Pandora's box of evil Freitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past.…
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…
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…
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…
The Jagged Orbit
Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. He needs it to keep his audience - and his job.…
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…