New Releases by John Brunner

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 helplessly along in their fervour reach the temple. Like dope addicts, he told himself, they don''t even care about themselves, only about the thing that is inside the temple! He remembered the day ten years ago when his older brother had been made a Warden of Asconel, a prosperous and happy planet, and he and his other brothers had left in the interests of their people. Now they returned to a world where a fanatical cult had usurped the Warden''s chair, and men and women were offering themselves up as human sacrifices to Belizuek - whoever or whatever that being from beyond the galaxy was . . . I''ll find out, he told himself grimly, when I enter these doors . . . (First published 1965)

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)

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. Now all the riches of the ages were his for the taking. But mere wealth was not what Freitas was after. Supreme power was what he sought, and from the past he picked the men and women who could help him gain absolute mastery over his rivals. But one thing he had not reckoned on - the power these creatures fro the past would have over him, the reign of terror about to begin...

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 peaceful, almost idyllic life, amid ancient and secret relics, co-existing with their strange and compatible neighbours. The arrival of Gregory Chart, the greatest dramatist ever, whose productions were played out in the skies, and whose actors were also the audience, could only disrupt and destroy once the Yanfolk were aroused from their dreaming indifference . . . (First published 1972)

''How short a time a century really is . . .'' The speaker was Immortal Karmesin, and he had lived a thousand years. He stood, a gigantic figure against the rush of time, a permanently open channel for the infants of the galaxy to explore the deep past. He was anathema to the Phoenixes, for their creed was that of birth in death, of regeneration in destruction. And he knew that he - one man - had to unravel the Phoenix mystery, or live to watch it bring fiery death to all the planets of man . . . (First published 1963)

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, robots and androids. There was nothing left for humans to do but enjoy, themselves . . . to seek pleasure where they found it, without inhibitions and without thinking of the price. Then an android died - in a senseless, brutal murder. And young Derry Horn was shocked out of his boredom and alienation. His life of flabby ease had not prepared him for a fantastically dangerous mission to outlying, primitive stars - but now, at last, he had a reason for living. And even when he found himself a prisoner of ruthless slavers, even when he learned the shocking truth about what the androids really were and where they came from . . . even when he saw all the laws of the orderly, civilised universe he knew turned upside-down and inside-out . . . he fought on. For that universe had to be shattered and reborn - even if Derry Horn and the Earth he had irrevocably left behind died in the process! (First published 1968)

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. Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thousand years. What mysterious disaster destroyed man''s nearest neighbour in the colossal emptiness of space? And will the same fate befall Earth? The answers, as Earth degenerates into squabbles, paranoia and self-destruction, are vital. But how to begin the almost insuperable task of cracking the enigma of a long-buried and utterly alien culture?

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

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.

Jadis, pour réussir au-delà de ses capacités, on vendait son âme au diable. A moins que ce ne soit à des êtres plus avancés que nous sur la route de l''évolution et qui traitent certains humains comme des animaux de compagnie ?...

"Once there was a mighty empire spanning the stars. once there had been great emperors ruling hundreds of inhabited planets, patrolling the star lanes with fleets of starcruisers, built to the perfection of a technology never before reached by man. And like all empires in human history, that one, the greatest of them all, declined and fell. Its colony worlds were left to themselves, falling into a galactic Dark Age of ignorance, barbarism, superstition. But they had one heritage in common--the imperial starships still functioned. They were self-repairing, foolproof, impervious, and obeyed the commands of any who reached their simplified controls."--Pg. [4] of cover.