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  • THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN
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    THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN
    JOHN BRUNNER
    "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 of believers ('Godheads') roaming the streets and turning plastic crosses into assault weapons. One scientist has discovered a new kind o...

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  • THE WRONG END OF TIME
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    THE WRONG END OF TIME
    JOHN BRUNNER
    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 from the rest of the world by a vast and complicated defense system, a young Russian scientist infiltrates all defenses to tell an almost unbel...

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  • THE WHOLE MAN
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    THE WHOLE MAN
    JOHN BRUNNER
    This "story of a severely handicapped man in a Dystopic world . . . very much reminds you of the Cyberpunk novels that would appear 20 years later" (Wanderings). In  A Whole Man, a baby boy is born in a hospital surrounded by the chaos of battle and civil unrest. The birth is unremarkable and little noted, but the child, Gerald Howson, turns out to be very special. He is afflic...

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  • THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER
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    THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER
    JOHN BRUNNER
    In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him, in this smart, edgy novel by a Hugo Award–winning author.   Constantly shifting his identity among a population choking on information, innovation, and novelty, Nickie Haflinger is a most dangerous outlaw, yet he doesn't even appear to exist. As global society falls apart in all direc...

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  • OUT OF MY MIND
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    OUT OF MY MIND
    JOHN BRUNNER
    Thirteen stories of the past, present, and future from the Hugo Award–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 stories that represent—under the three categories in which he classifies them: Past, Present, Future—his most challenging and entertaining...

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  • TO CONQUER CHAOS
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    TO CONQUER CHAOS
    JOHN BRUNNER
    A postapocalyptic thriller with "the fun aspect of an American International 50's SF movie" from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (Vintage45). In  To Conquer Chaos, John Brunner gives us a heaping helping of classic planetary science fiction adventure. The barrenland is a mystery and an enigma, a dangerous and terrifying place that none who enter ever return f...

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  • THE WORLD SWAPPERS
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    THE WORLD SWAPPERS
    JOHN BRUNNER
    A "very enjoyable" novel of first alien contact from the Hugo Award–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, finance, and business—are locked in a battle for supremacy over the inhabited worlds of the galaxy, an unknown threat to their power lurks...

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  • THE SHEEP LOOK UP
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    THE SHEEP LOOK UP
    JOHN BRUNNER
    Nebula Award Finalist: A "brilliantly crafted, engrossing" dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar ( The Guardian). In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undr...

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  • THE SQUARES OF THE CITY
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    THE SQUARES OF THE CITY
    JOHN BRUNNER
    Hugo Award Finalist: "Story plotting holding much in common with chess . . . An exciting political thriller in the vein of Graham Greene" (Speculiction). In The Squares of the City, Brunner takes the moves of a classic championship chess game and uses them as the structure to build a novel about a revolution in a South American country obsessed with chess and dominated by a dic...

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  • A MAZE OF STARS
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    A MAZE OF STARS
    JOHN BRUNNER
    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 save us from ourselves." —SF Site Among six hundred thousand stars visited by man, sixty thousand have planets hospitable to life, six thousa...

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  • THE JAGGED ORBIT
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    THE JAGGED ORBIT
    JOHN BRUNNER
    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 Zanzibar, takes a long, hard, disturbing, and hilarious look at the near and not-so-distant future. Catastrophic changes due to ram...

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  • CHILDREN OF THE THUNDER
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    CHILDREN OF THE THUNDER
    JOHN BRUNNER
    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 near-contemporary vision of a world gone awry and proposes a peculiarly disturbing and frightening solution. Starting separately, a small number of v...

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  • FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
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    FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
    JOHN BRUNNER
    "Speculation is compounded with suspense" in these thirteen short works of sci-fi from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar—"Genuine startlers" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Collected when Brunner was at the peak of his writing form, this even dozen of his short stories, with a bonus poem thrown into the mix, offers provocative ideas and thrilling action mixe...

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  • THE COMPLEAT TRAVELLER IN BLACK
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    THE COMPLEAT TRAVELLER IN BLACK
    JOHN BRUNNER
    One journey. Six stories. Mind-blowing fantasy from the Hugo Award winner, "one of the most important science fiction authors" (SF Site). In  The Compleat Traveller in Black, six linked tales, comprising one of Brunner's rare ventures into fantasy, relate the legend of a man with many names, who travels the world with a staff made of light and performs his eternal duty by bring...

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  • DOUBLE, DOUBLE
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    DOUBLE, DOUBLE
    JOHN BRUNNER
    A mutant species from the sea unleashes a tide of terror in this horror thriller from "one of the most important science fiction authors" ( SF Site). 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 beha...

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  • THE LADDER IN THE SKY
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    THE LADDER IN THE SKY
    JOHN BRUNNER
    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 escape, is taken prisoner and offered up in an actual "deal with the devil,"—servitude for a year and a day in return for helping a resistanc...

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  • THE ATLANTIC ABOMINATION
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    THE ATLANTIC ABOMINATION
    JOHN BRUNNER
    An alien hidden in the ocean's depths is awakened—and wreaks havoc on mankind—in this science fiction classic from the Hugo Award–winning author. In  The Atlantic Abomination, an exploratory expedition to the bottom of the ocean discovers the remnants of a long-lost civilization, and then, the enormous body of an alien being preserved for unknown millennia. An attempt to raise ...

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  • THE CRUCIBLE OF TIME
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    THE CRUCIBLE OF TIME
    JOHN BRUNNER
    An alien race struggles to survive on an uninhabitable planet in this "impeccably detailed and beautifully thought out" novel from a Hugo Award winner ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   On a planet besieged with cosmic dust, where meteors of all sizes frequently hit, wiping out entire civilizations, a strange alien species struggles against extinction over the course of mille...

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  • THE PRODUCTIONS OF TIME
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    THE PRODUCTIONS OF TIME
    JOHN BRUNNER
    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 job and can't be choosy. Then he ends up in an isolated country estate with every move being recorded by what appear to be alien i...

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  • THE JOHN BRUNNER COLLECTION VOLUME ONE
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    THE JOHN BRUNNER COLLECTION VOLUME ONE
    JOHN BRUNNER
    Three visionary sci-fi novels from the Hugo Award–winning author whose dystopian prescience made him “one of the most important” (SF Site).   British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being made available to new generations of readers. The very definition of timeless, ...

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  • THE JOHN BRUNNER COLLECTION VOLUME TWO
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    THE JOHN BRUNNER COLLECTION VOLUME TWO
    JOHN BRUNNER
    Three fascinating sci-fi novels from the limitless imagination of the Hugo Award–winning author of the dystopian classic, Stand on Zanzibar.   British novelist John Brunner remains “one of the most important science fiction authors . . . [who] held a mirror up to reflect our foibles” (SF Site). Brunner’s skillful and often frightening political and social commentary takes its p...

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  • WINGS OF OMEN
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    WINGS OF OMEN
    JOE HALDEMAN / JOHN BRUNNER / PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    Sixth in the magical, action-packed shared-world series: “Thieves’ World® has grown into a real presence in the fantasy genre” (Fantasy-Faction).   Under the rule of a humanoid race, the city of Sanctuary finds itself divided. Rebels and assassins stalk the shadows, bringing chaos to the streets—which is nothing new to the lawless locals. But even they will have to put aside th...

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  • SHADOWS OF SANCTUARY
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    SHADOWS OF SANCTUARY
    JOE HALDEMAN / JOHN BRUNNER / PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    The third Thieves’ World® anthology—with stories by fantasy’s favorite authors—curated by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Myth series.   Times are hard, and the citizens of Sanctuary are not their greedy, immoral, grifting selves. But desperate times call for desperate measures, which means the bad guys are about to up their game. No one is safe from Sanctuary’s ev...

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  • THIEVES' WORLD®
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    THIEVES' WORLD®
    JOE HALDEMAN / JOHN BRUNNER / PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    Missing Game of Thrones? Dare to “be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again” (Book Riot). A classic series for a new generation of fantasy adventure fans, Thieves’ World® paved the way for the shared-world anthology tradition with epic worldbuilding, unforgettable characters, and nonstop action thanks to th...

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  • TALES FROM THE VULGAR UNICORN
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    TALES FROM THE VULGAR UNICORN
    JOE HALDEMAN / JOHN BRUNNER / PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    Belly up to Thieves’ World®’s favorite bar for tales told by such fantasy stars as Philip José Farmer, David Drake, Janet Morris, and others.   In the second shared-world anthology of the Thieves’ World® series, we see “the gods themselves taking a hand in the fight for the hearts, minds and souls of the citizens of Sanctuary” (Fantasy-Faction).   Via contributions from Philip ...

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  • THE FACE OF CHAOS
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    THE FACE OF CHAOS
    JOE HALDEMAN / JOHN BRUNNER / PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
     War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves’ World® anthology compiled by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Phule’s Company series.   The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering façade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don’t take kindly ...

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  • STORM SEASON
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    STORM SEASON
    JOE HALDEMAN / JOHN BRUNNER / PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    A whirlwind of fantasy action and adventure descends on Thieves’ World®—as related by C. J. Cherryh, Diana L. Paxson, Andrew J. Offutt, and others.   Welcome back to Sanctuary, “the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures” (Black Gate). The Thieves’ World® series continu...

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  • AFTERMATH
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    AFTERMATH
    DAVID DRAKE / JOHN BRUNNER / ANDREW J. OFFUTT
    The mercenary Stepsons leave Sanctuary behind in this tenth volume of the shared-world fantasy anthology series. As Tempus and his mercenary army, the Stepsons, depart from war-torn Sanctuary, there are some who view it as a return to normal. Yet what is normal in this city of thieves and adventurers? Laborers arrive to help in the rebuilding efforts, but some of these able-bod...

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