John Brunner - Jad Smith

Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934–...

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1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. During his exemplary career, the British author wrote with a stamina matched by only a few other great science fiction writers and with a literary quality of even fewer, importing modernist techniques into his novels and stories and probing every major theme of his generation: robotics, racism, drugs, space exploration, technological warfare, and ecology.

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In this first intensive review of Brunner's life and works, Jad Smith carefully demonstrates how Brunner's much-neglected early fiction laid the foundation for his classic Stand on Zanzibar and other major works such as The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider. Making extensive use of Brunner's letters, columns, speeches, and interviews published in fanzines, Smith approaches Brunner in the context of markets and trends that affected many writers of the time, including Brunner's uneasy association with the "...

Based on extensive research and filled with thoughtful commentary and insights, Jad Smith's book will stand alone as the one essential resource on John Brunner, an important science fiction writer who merits much more attention than he has so far received. Gary Westfahl, editor of Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits The comparative neglect of the late John Brunner probably derives from the fact that he does noThe comparative neglect of the late John Brunner probably derives from the fact that he does not fit comfortably into any of the standard models of discourse within science-fiction criticism; one of the strengths of Jad Smith's work is that it addresses this. - Times Literary Supplement, January 2013