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The Zarathustra Refugee Planets sequence, made up of Castaways' World dos US; rev vt Polymath , Secret Agent of Terra dos US; rev vt The Avengers of Carrig and The Repairmen of Cyclops dos US; rev , all later assembled as Victims of the Nova omni , deals over a long timescale with the survivors of human-colonized Zarathustra; when the planet's sun goes nova, spaceships carry a few million survivors into exile on a variety of uninhabited worlds.

Despite these two series, and in contrast to some of his older peers, Brunner only rarely attempted to link individual items into series or fixups. Both his space operas and his later, more ambitious works are generally initially conceived in the versions which the reader sees on book publication. Brunner's stories are generally free in form, sometimes experimental. By , with the publication of The Whole Man stories , Science Fantasy 32 and 34 as "City of the Tiger" and "The Whole Man"; exp fixup ; vt Telepathist and The Squares of the City , it was evident that he would not be content to go on indefinitely writing the sf entertainments of which he had become master, even interesting explorations of tropes like Matter Transmission in novels like The Dreaming Earth , material intriguing enough to inspire two of his later attempts to continue publishing works of wide appeal, Web of Everywhere and The Infinitive of Go But tales like this did not constitute attempts to transform his sf habitat.

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More ambitiously, The Whole Man , comprising fundamentally rewritten magazine stories and much new material, and generally considered to be one of Brunner's most successful novels, is an attempt to draw a psychological portrait of a deformed human with telepathic powers see ESP ; Telepathy who gradually learns how to use these powers in psychiatrically curative ways see Dream Hacking ; for to communicate is to be human.

The Squares of the City is a respectable try at a Chess novel in which a chosen venue in this case a city serves as the board and two of the characters are players while others are the various pieces.

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The stiffness of the resulting story may have been inevitable, especially since Brunner was playing out in his fiction a well-known master game. Brunner's magnum opus of the s, Stand on Zanzibar , perhaps the longest Genre-SF novel to that date, came as the climax of the decade. The Dystopian vision of this complex novel, much of which is set in an exemplary New York , rests on the assumption that Earth's population will continue to expand uncontrollably see Overpopulation.

The intersecting stories of two New Yorkers — Norman House, a black executive on a mission to the Third World to facilitate further economic penetration, and Donald Hogan, a White "synthesist" and government agent, whose mission involves gaining control of a Eugenics discovery — provide dominant strands in an assemblage of narrative techniques whose function of providing a social and cultural context see Infodump points up their resemblance to similar Modernist techniques used by John Dos Passos in USA 3vols , but which as John P Brennan has noted fail to conceal the underlying storytelling orthodoxy of the tale.

It is perhaps for this reason that the resulting vision has a cumulative, sometimes overpowering effect, while at the same time the meliorist logic of its pulp plotting which descends from Homer urgently conveys a sense that answers will be forthcoming, and that the protagonists will win through the story they are living. Through its density of reference, and through Brunner's admirable though sometimes insecure grasp of US idiom, the book's anti-Americanism has a satisfyingly American ring to it, so that its tirades do not seem smug; it won the Hugo and the BSFA Award , and its French translation won the Prix Apollo see Awards in Three further novels, all with some of the same pace and intensity, make together a kind of thematic series of Dystopias.

The Jagged Orbit conflates medical and military industrial complexes with the Mafia in a rather too tightly plotted, though occasionally powerful, narrative which also addresses issues of race. The Sheep Look Up , perhaps the most unrelenting and convincing dystopia of the four, and depressingly well documented, deals scarifyingly with Pollution in a plot whose relative looseness allows for an almost essayist exposition of the horrors in store for us.

Unsurprisingly with hindsight , though these novels received considerable critical attention, they in no way made Brunner's fortune.

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He was always extremely open about his finances and his hopes for the future, and made no secret of the let-down he felt on discovering himself, after these culminating efforts, still in the position of being forced to produce commercially to survive. This naivete was humanly touching, but fatal to his career. For some years before his death his health was uncertain, which coinciding with his disillusion caused a severe slowing down of his once formidable writing speed.

In his decreasingly frequent publications since , Brunner tended to return to a somewhat more flamboyant, ironized version of the space-opera idiom he had used earlier, and the relative lack of fluency and enthusiasm of novels like Total Eclipse and Children of the Thunder cannot easily be denied.

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There is a sense in these novels that skill warred with convictions, and that, as a consequence, Brunner could not any longer allow himself the orthodox delights of pure storytelling. He died before the renaissance in Space Opera began to shape British publishing in the s, though the first novels of Iain M Banks had already proclaimed that something new was in the offing; but there are few signs he would have felt comfortable with the free-flowing exuberance of the reinvented mode, which he may have thought ultimately irresponsible. All the same, A Maze of Stars see above , which expanded the Generation Starship of the original Sanctuary in the Sky into a full-fledged sentient World Ship , gave some evidence of an intention to try.

But even The Great Steamboat Race , an associational novel, set on the Mississippi River, which he devoted years to writing, shows some signs of a nagging dis-ease. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.



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To view it, click here. It's that time again for a review of the book I have just finished reading, or something. This book has two full stories, fortunately by the same author sometimes the stories are two separate authors with no connection what-so-ever. The book is designed so that instead of reading it cover-to-cover It's that time again for a review of the book I have just finished reading, or something.

The book is designed so that instead of reading it cover-to-cover you read it cover-to-middle, then flip the book over and read it cover-to-middle. The more I think about it the more I vaguely remember a news-stand near me when I was a kid having this type of paperback book, in addition to having magazines, and the comics, trading cards and candy I used to go there for. Back in the days of real penny bubble gum and five and ten cent candy bars.

In more recent years I've seen this type of book in used book stores. The main story line is medieval in nature, except that the empire is made up of six planets, and they mention spacecraft and helicopters. I'm really disappointed with this story. It doesn't get to feeling like a sci-fi story until near the end when it reads more like an acid-trip of some kind. Then the true nature of the character named Kaleb The Conjurer is revealed, sort of. Through out the story he acts like an eccentric magician, con man. He of course is the title character The Space-Time Juggler.

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I had started reading this a couple of years back when I had gotten the book from off of Ebay, but never got into enough to finish it. I almost should have left it unread. I didn't gain anything from reading it, yet this was the story I had bought the thing for in the first place. It did not live up to what I was expecting.

My hand was shaking so badly I wasn't sure it was worth the trouble For a story written in the early s and set in the 21st Century, I'm not sure how far into it it has a lot of modern references.



Until I had done a little internet research I thought Fax machines were something that was developed in the s I recall a Star Trek Comic book from making a reference to fax machines , but the technology for it goes back to the late s, the first fax copies text were sent in the early s via telegraph wire, the first telephone line faxes were sent sometime during the 60s. The story is written in the first person by the character of David Drummond a science writer, reporter and big brother to one of the sixty astronauts aboard a spaceship called the Starventure, a ship designed to travel to Alpha Centauri via hyperspace.

Well things don't go as planned for the crew as their bodies are changed by some aliens in hyperspace during their trip. What diabolical plan did these aliens have for doing this? And why are these aliens appearing as gigantic monsters in the sky? I don't want to spoil these questions for anybody wanting to read this story.

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I will say this though this story is a highly scientific sci-fi story much of the science talk went over my head. I normally don't like the super scientific terminology stories but this one was pretty fun, but slightly difficult as far as the science lingo to read. In my internet adventures in tracking down info on this story, thinking it might have been used as the basis for an Outer Limits type television show or movie, I found out that an updated re-write of it had been done some ten to twenty years later.

It would make a good movie. I reviewed this on my blog http: Con muchas preguntas por responder que al final consiguen sus respuestas pero dejando para el final la pregunta mayor la viento. Jan 09, Rob Turner rated it really liked it. In a double book?? How could I not read these? Jan 10, John rated it liked it Shelves: Terry rated it really liked it Jan 30, Rita rated it liked it May 27, James rated it it was ok Dec 06, Kay Hawkins rated it it was amazing Oct 15, Jose Manuel rated it it was ok Dec 21, Fernando Alvarez rated it really liked it Sep 07, Fernando Fuenzalida rated it it was ok Sep 26, Lew marked it as to-read Nov 30, MissJessie added it Apr 12, Bored And added it Sep 10, Rob French marked it as to-read Dec 29, Jo Walton added it Mar 19, Tom added it Sep 19, Ainslee marked it as to-read Dec 08, David added it Jan 19, Elizabeth added it Feb 16, Bobby Treat added it Feb 22, Kostas Sarlis added it Apr 30, Mark marked it as to-read Sep 16, Dwight added it Mar 04, Ross Armstrong marked it as to-read Mar 23, Steven marked it as to-read Nov 27, Mctsonic taylor added it Mar 05, Mary marked it as to-read Oct 21, Jeff marked it as to-read Mar 11, Carter marked it as to-read Mar 30, James Turner marked it as to-read Jun 10, MLJolly marked it as to-read Jul 29,