John Brunner (author)
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John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction
Brunner c. 1967
Brunner's short novel The Wanton of Argus was originally published in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1953, before appearing in book form as The Space-Time Juggler.
Brunner's novelette Rendezvous With Destiny was cover-featured on the March 1958 issue of Fantastic Universe.
The Shockwave Rider
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The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and f
John Brunner (author)
…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 that reproduces itself across a computer network. Brunner's work has also been credited for prefiguring…
Cover of first edition (hardcover)