John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 25 August 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories.
The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA award in 1970. ==Life== Brunner was born in 1934 in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrew's Prep School, Pangbourne.
He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service. He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955.
He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service. He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955.
He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service. He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955.
He married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on 12 July 1958. Brunner had an uneasy relationship with British new wave writers, who often considered him too American in his settings and themes.
Horror fiction about the "swinging London" underground in the 1960s. The Devil's Work, W.
His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and the BSFA award the same year.
His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar exploits the fragmented organizational style that American writer John Dos Passos created for his USA trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of media popularised by Canadian academic Marshall McLuhan, a major cultural figure of the period. The Jagged Orbit (1969) is set in a United States dominated by weapons proliferation and interracial violence.
His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and the BSFA award the same year.
The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA award in 1970. ==Life== Brunner was born in 1934 in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrew's Prep School, Pangbourne.
The Sheep Look Up (1972) depicts ecological catastrophe in America. Brunner is credited with coining the term "worm" (in computing) and predicting the emergence of computer viruses in his 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider, in which he used the term to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network.
He attempted to shift to a more mainstream readership in the early 1980s, without success.
But he was known to be difficult to deal with (his wife Marjorie Brunner had handled his publishing relations before she died). Brunner's health began to decline in the 1980s and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986.
But he was known to be difficult to deal with (his wife Marjorie Brunner had handled his publishing relations before she died). Brunner's health began to decline in the 1980s and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986.
He remarried, to Li Yi Tan, on 27 September 1991.
John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 25 August 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories.
He died of a heart attack in Glasgow on 25 August 1995, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there. ==Literary works== At first writing conventional space opera, Brunner later began to experiment with the novel form.
Mystery set in Europe featuring neo-Nazis. Black Is the Color, Pyramid (1969, republished in 2015).
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