Book Series Guide

John Brunner

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John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British writer whose career began with Galactic Storm in 1951 and encompassed science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, contemporary fiction, poetry, erotica, and short-story collections. He wrote under several pseudonyms, including Gill Hunt and Keith Woodcott, and frequently explored overpopulation, ecology, race, technology, social change, and political extremism.

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Stand on Zanzibar

The defining large-scale social science-fiction novel and the clearest entry point to Brunner's major mature work.

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The Sheep Look Up

A powerful ecological dystopia and one of Brunner's central novels.

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The Shockwave Rider

An accessible, influential novel about networks, surveillance, and social control.

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The Traveler in Black

A concise fantasy collection showcasing Brunner's linked-story form.

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Books by series

novel sequence · completed

Interstellar Empire

A space-opera sequence concerning the decline and possible renewal of a galactic empire.

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  1. 1
    The Space-Time Juggler

    Book 1 · novel · 1963

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    The Altar on Asconel

    Book 2 · novel · 1965

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series · completed

Zarathustra Refugee Planets

A sequence about human survivors scattered across worlds after the nova of Zarathustra.

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  1. 1
    Secret Agent of Terra

    Book 1 · novel · 1962

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    Castaways' World

    Book 2 · novel · 1963

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    The Repairmen of Cyclops

    Book 3 · novel · 1965

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series · completed

Max Curfew

A series of spy novels featuring Max Curfew.

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  1. 1
    A Plague on Both Your Causes

    Book 1 · novel · 1969

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  2. 2
    Good Men Do Nothing

    Book 2 · novel · 1970

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  3. 3
    Honky in the Woodpile

    Book 3 · novel · 1971

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (63)
  1. Galactic Storm

    novel · 1951

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    Threshold of Eternity

    novel · 1959

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  3. The 100th Millennium

    novel · 1959

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  4. Echo in the Skull

    novel · 1959

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    The World Swappers

    novel · 1959

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  6. The Brink

    novel · 1959

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  7. Slavers of Space

    novel · 1960

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  8. The Skynappers

    novel · 1960

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    The Atlantic Abomination

    novel · 1960

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  10. Sanctuary in the Sky

    novel · 1960

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  11. I Speak for Earth

    novel · 1961

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  12. Meeting at Infinity

    novel · 1961

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  13. The Super Barbarians

    novel · 1962

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    The Ladder in the Sky

    novel · 1962

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    Times Without Number

    novel · 1962

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  16. The Psionic Menace

    novel · 1963

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  17. The Astronauts Must Not Land

    novel · 1963

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  18. Cover of The Dreaming Earth
    The Dreaming Earth

    novel · 1963

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  19. The Rites of Ohe

    novel · 1963

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  20. Listen! The Stars!

    novel · 1963

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  21. Cover of To Conquer Chaos
    To Conquer Chaos

    novel · 1964

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  22. Endless Shadow

    novel · 1964

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  23. Cover of The Whole Man
    The Whole Man

    novel · 1964

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  24. The Martian Sphinx

    novel · 1965

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  25. Cover of Enigma from Tantalus
    Enigma from Tantalus

    novel · 1965

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  26. The Day of the Star Cities

    novel · 1965

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  27. The Long Result

    novel · 1965

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    The Squares of the City

    novel · 1965

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  29. A Planet of Your Own

    novel · 1966

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  30. The Productions of Time

    novel · 1967

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    Born Under Mars

    novel · 1967

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  32. Quicksand

    novel · 1967

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    Bedlam Planet

    novel · 1968

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  34. Cover of Stand on Zanzibar
    Stand on Zanzibar

    novel · 1968

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  35. Father of Lies

    novella · 1968

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  36. Double, Double

    novel · 1969

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    The Jagged Orbit

    novel · 1969

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  38. Cover of Timescoop
    Timescoop

    novel · 1969

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  39. The Evil That Men Do

    novella · 1969

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  40. Black Is the Color

    novel · 1969

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  41. The Incestuous Lovers

    novel · 1969

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  42. The Gaudy Shadows

    novel · 1970

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  43. The Devil's Work

    novel · 1970

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    The Wrong End of Time

    novel · 1971

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  45. Cover of The Dramaturges of Yan
    The Dramaturges of Yan

    novel · 1972

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  46. Cover of The Sheep Look Up
    The Sheep Look Up

    novel · 1972

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  47. Cover of The Stone That Never Came Down
    The Stone That Never Came Down

    novel · 1973

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  48. Ball in the Family

    novel · 1973

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  49. Total Eclipse

    novel · 1974

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    Web of Everywhere

    novel · 1974

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  51. Cover of The Shockwave Rider
    The Shockwave Rider

    novel · 1975

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  52. The Infinitive of Go

    novel · 1980

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    Players at the Game of People

    novel · 1980

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  54. The Great Steamboat Race

    novel · 1983

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  55. Cover of The Crucible of Time
    The Crucible of Time

    novel · 1983

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  56. Cover of The Tides of Time
    The Tides of Time

    novel · 1984

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  57. Cover of The Shift Key
    The Shift Key

    novel · 1987

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  58. The Days of March

    novel · 1988

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  59. Cover of Children of the Thunder
    Children of the Thunder

    novel · 1989

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  60. Cover of A Maze of Stars
    A Maze of Stars

    novel · 1991

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  61. Cover of Muddle Earth
    Muddle Earth

    novel · 1993

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  62. The Crutch of Memory

    novel · 1964

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  63. Wear the Butchers' Medal Pocket

    novel · 1965

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Poetry (5)
  1. Trip: A Cycle of Poems

    poetry · 1966

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  2. Life in an Explosive Forming Press

    poetry · 1970

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  3. A Hastily Thrown-together Bit of Zork

    poetry · 1974

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  4. Tomorrow May Be Even Worse: An Alphabet of Science Fiction Cliches

    poetry · 1978

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  5. A New Settlement of Old Scores

    poetry · 1983

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Other (14)
  1. No Future in It

    collection · 1962

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  2. Now Then

    collection · 1965

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  3. No Other Gods But Me

    collection · 1966

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  4. Out of My Mind

    collection · 1967

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  5. Cover of Not Before Time
    Not Before Time

    collection · 1968

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  6. Cover of The Traveler in Black
    The Traveler in Black

    collection · 1971

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  7. Cover of Entry to Elsewhen
    Entry to Elsewhen

    collection · 1972

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  8. From This Day Forward

    collection · 1972

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  9. Time-Jump

    collection · 1973

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  10. Cover of The Book of John Brunner
    The Book of John Brunner

    collection · 1976

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  11. Cover of Foreign Constellations: The Fantastic Worlds of John Brunner
    Foreign Constellations: The Fantastic Worlds of John Brunner

    collection · 1980

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  12. The Best of John Brunner

    collection · 1988

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  13. The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories

    collection · 2013

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  14. The Society of Time

    collection · 2020

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