New Releases by John Brunner

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 refugee planets could form their own civilizations from scratch, logically they would come up with cultures suited to their own needs. However, when the case of Justin Kolb came to his attention, Langenschmidt was forced to rethink the problem. Kolb''s accident with the wolfshark revealed to the Corps'' medicos the leg-graft that had been performed on him. It was a perfect match - only its gene-pattern wasn''t Cyclopean, and limb-grafting wasn''t practised on Cyclops. Where had the leg come from, who had been the unknown repairmen, and wasn''t this something that might be violating galactic law? (First published 1965)

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 various worlds began to develop into two differing antagonistic types. For Ray Mallin, born under the surface of Mars in the sparse colony of Earth''s inhospitable old neighbour, neither the anarchic ''bears'' nor the autocratic ''Centaurs'' commanded his loyalty. So when secret agents of both galactic groupings suddenly focus their unwelcome attention on his most recent star-piloting mission, he knew only that something of vast significance was up - and that he unknowingly was the key to it.

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 yourself. That''s what Drummond did. And when he found out. it changed the universe!

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 that had landed and set up shop there? Was it really possible just to create a new Earth on any vacant world waiting a landing? Or was there a lot more to planetary ecologies than humanity realized?

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 worlds . . . and had affirmed once more that all men were brothers and sisters under the skin. But the far away world of Azreal was the exception, the one dissident world that refused the Bridge. It became the task of two agents, a man and a woman, to bring Azreal back into manshape unity, to ferret out the hidden reasons for the stubborn refusal. The problem, with its perils and high risks, was to involve more than just secrets, for Manshape is John Brunner novel that deals with the very fabric of civilization . . .

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 from the sun at a dangerous rate. But if another planet''s gravi-power could harnessed . . . An expedition was launched to Mars, known to be uninhabited - except that a woman was wandering around its surface who claimed she had come from another galaxy to warn Earth of a terrible menace, and there was a huge poly-hedron of metal emanting a force very much like that of gravipower. Someone else had discovered it! A thousand years ago, or now? Friend, or enemy? (First published 1965)

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 leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it''s about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he''s about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. These two men''s lives weave through one of science fiction''s most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos'' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of now, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

El rebano ciego es, en mi opinion y por todo tipo de razones, la mejor novela de ciencia-ficcion jamas escrita, sin discusion. -John Grant, coeditor de The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction La contaminacion atmosferica ha llegado a tales extremos que ponerse una mascara de gas para salir a la calle es ahora lo mas corriente del mundo. Las tasas de mortandad infantil siguen subiendo, y todo el mundo parece estar aquejado de algun tipo de enfermedad. El agua es toxica y solo los pobres beben del grifo. Las acciones del gobierno son inutiles, cuando las emprende, y las grandes corporaciones se disputan los beneficios de las ventas de purificadores de agua, mascaras de gas y alimentos biologicos. El ecologista Austin Train vive a la carrera. Los trainitas, activistas medioambientales y terroristas ocasionales, quieren que encabece su movimiento. El gobierno lo quiere entre rejas o, a ser posible, ejecutado. Los medios de comunicacion quieren espectaculo. Todo el mundo tiene algun plan para Train, pero el ya ha trazado los suyos. Y pronto dejara de correr... El legendario autor de ciencia-ficcion John Brunner, galardonado con el Premio Hugo y dos veces ganador del British Science Fiction Award, un visionario, predijo la creacion de Internet y acuno el termino gusano para describir ciertos virus informaticos. Brunner participo activamente en la comunidad de la ciencia-ficcion; asistio a multitud de convenciones y contribuyo al genero con decenas de novelas. Sus ideas politicas acerca de la superpoblacion, el control de la informacion, los conflictos raciales y el medio ambiente dictan el tono de sus obras mas conocidas: la ganadora del Hugo Todos sobre Zanzibar, la ciberpunk El jinete de la onda de choque, Orbita inestable y El rebano ciego. John Brunner nos abandono en 1995. Introduccion a cargo de David Brin Epilogo del ecologista James John Bell Una obra maestra de tragica complejidad... John Brunner es el Rachel Carson de la ciencia-ficcion. -Ian Watson La mejor novela de Brunner que he leido... asombrosamente controlada y dramatica... una obra de arte. -James Blish Absorbente, tanto a nivel emocional como intelectual. -Booklist Brunner se ha labrado un lugar en la cima de la literatura especulativa mas seria. -Library Journal Una descomunal alucinacion del estertoreo fin del mundo por parte de uno de nuestros autores de ciencia-ficcion con mas talento... la novela, con su sobrecogedora propuesta de una biosfera devastada, impacta a todos los niveles. -Kirkus Reviews Un cautivador diario de la que se nos avecina... el futuro elige el metodo de pago contra reembolso. -Washington Post

"In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from some form of ailment. The water is polluted, and only the poor drink from the tap. The government is ineffectual, and corporate interests scramble to make a profit from water purifiers, gas masks, and organic foods. Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The Trainites, environmental activists and sometime terrorists, want him to lead their movement. The government wants him in jail, or preferably, executed. The media wants a circus. Everyone has a plan for Train, but Train has a plan of his own"--Publisher.

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 he had broken his identity code—then he escaped. Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster. He didn’t care how he did it—but the government did. That’s when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs . . . and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education.

Science fiction-roman.