Experience No Other Gods But Me Generated By John Brunner Exhibited In Leaflet
strange happens to Colin Hooper and Vanessa Sherriff, Thrown together by an unknown power, they are wrenched from their own time and space into a world that is Earth and yet not Earth.
Just as mysteriously, they are returned, unharmed, Hooper decides to find out what is going on, despite attempts to dissuade him, Gradually he uncovers part of the truthand the truth is incredible, Earth is being prepared for invasion from a parallel world, and the methods used are both subtle and terrifying.
Here is a bizarre story of terror and imagination by one of science fiction's leading writers.
A story that is totally convincing,
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'No Other Gods But Me', AKA 'A Time to Rend',
'The Man from the Big Dark',
'The Odds Against You', AKA 'Against the Odds', John Brunner was born in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrews Prep School, Pangbourne, then to Cheltenham College.
He wrote his first novel, Galactic Storm, at, and published it under the pen name Gill Hunt, but he did not start writing full time until.
He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force fromto, and married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer onJulyAt the beginning of his writing career Brunner wrote conventional space opera
pulp science fiction.
Brunner later began to experiment with the novel form, Hisnovel Stand on Zanzibar exploits the fragmented organizational style John Dos Passos invented for his USA trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of John Brunner was born in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrew's Prep School, Pangbourne, then to Cheltenham College.
He wrote his first novel, Galactic Storm, at, and published it under the pen name Gill Hunt, but he did not start writing full time until.
He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force fromto, and married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer onJulyAt the beginning of his writing career Brunner wrote conventional space opera pulp science fiction.
Brunner later began to experiment with the novel form, Hisnovel "Stand on Zanzibar" exploits the fragmented organizational style John Dos Passos invented for his USA trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of media popularised by Marshall McLuhan.
"The Jagged Orbit"is set in a United States dominated by weapons proliferation and interracial violence, and hasnumbered chapters varying in length from a single syllable to several pages in length.
"The Sheep Look Up"depicts ecological catastrophe in America, Brunner is credited with coining the term "worm" and predicting the emergence of computer viruses in hisnovel "The Shockwave Rider", in which he used the term to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network.
Together with "Stand on Zanzibar", these novels have been called the "Club of Rome Quartet", named after the Club of Rome whosereport The Limits to Growth warned of the dire effects of overpopulation.
Brunner's pen names include K, H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, Ellis Quick, Henry Crosstrees Jr, and Keith Woodcott. In addition to his fiction, Brunner wrote poetry and many unpaid articles in a variety of publications, particularly fanzines, but alsoletters to the New Scientist and an article about the educational relevance of science fiction in Physics Education.
Brunner was an active member of the organisation Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and wrote the words to "The H Bomb's Thunder", which was sung on the Aldermaston Marches.
Brunner had an uneasy relationship with British new wave writers, who often considered him too American in his settings and themes.
He attempted to shift to a mainstream readership in the earlys, without success, Before his death, most of his books had fallen out of print, Brunner accused publishers of a conspiracy against him, although he was difficult to deal with his wife had handled his publishing relations before she died.
Brunner's health began to decline in thes and worsened with the death of his wife in, He remarried, to Li Yi Tan, onSeptember, He died of a heart attack in Glasgow onAugust, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention thereakaK H Brunner, Henry Crosstrees Jr, Gill Hunt with Dennis Hughes and E C Tubb, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, Keith WoodcottWinner of the ESFS Awards inas "Best Author" andnas "Novelist".
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