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John Brunner (1934–1995)

Autor(a) de Stand on Zanzibar

270+ Works 21,751 Membros 362 Críticas 39 Favorited

About the Author

Legendary science fiction author John Brunner was the winner of the Hugo award and two-time winner of the British Science Fiction Award. He was perhaps the first science fiction author to predict the Internet and coined the term "worm" to descibe computer viruses. Mr. Brunner died in 1995

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Obras por John Brunner

Stand on Zanzibar (1968) 3,194 exemplares
The Sheep Look Up (1972) 1,641 exemplares
The Shockwave Rider (1975) 1,580 exemplares
The Crucible of Time (1982) 734 exemplares
The Jagged Orbit (1969) 725 exemplares
The squares of the city (1965) 582 exemplares
The Whole Man (1964) 556 exemplares
Total Eclipse (1974) 431 exemplares
The Wrong End of Time (1971) 419 exemplares
The Compleat Traveller in Black (1987) 365 exemplares
Times without number (1969) 355 exemplares
Polymath (1963) 346 exemplares
The Stone That Never Came Down (1973) 342 exemplares
The Traveler in Black (1960) 340 exemplares
The long result (1965) 336 exemplares
Players at the Game of People (1980) — Autor — 326 exemplares
Interstellar Empire (1976) 315 exemplares
Children of the Thunder (1988) 301 exemplares
The Dramaturges of Yan (1972) 297 exemplares
Born under Mars (1966) — Autor — 288 exemplares
The Webs of Everywhere (1974) 277 exemplares
The Infinitive of Go (1980) 270 exemplares
Bedlam Planet (1968) 253 exemplares
The tides of time (1984) 247 exemplares
A Maze Of Stars (1991) 242 exemplares
Catch a Falling Star (1968) 234 exemplares
The Productions of Time (1967) 227 exemplares
Age of Miracles (1973) 221 exemplares
Quicksand (1969) — Autor — 221 exemplares
Timescoop (1969) 213 exemplares
To Conquer Chaos (1964) 204 exemplares
Entry to Elsewhen (1972) 202 exemplares
The dreaming Earth (1961) — Autor — 198 exemplares
The Avengers of Carrig (1962) 197 exemplares
The Stardroppers (1972) 193 exemplares
More Things in Heaven (1973) 187 exemplares
The World Swappers (1959) 173 exemplares
Double, Double (1969) 171 exemplares
From This Day Forward (1972) 169 exemplares
Muddle Earth (1993) 167 exemplares
The Atlantic Abomination (1960) 159 exemplares
Out of My Mind {UK Edition} (1968) 139 exemplares
Into the Slave Nebula (1968) 128 exemplares
Not Before Time (1957) — Autor — 118 exemplares
The repairmen of Cyclops (1965) 118 exemplares
Meeting at Infinity (1961) — Autor — 107 exemplares
Now Then! (1965) 100 exemplares
Manshape (1982) 98 exemplares
Time-Jump (1973) 97 exemplares
The day of the star cities (1965) 94 exemplares
No future in it (1962) 92 exemplares
The Super Barbarians (1962) 85 exemplares
The Astronauts Must Not Land / The Space-Time Juggler (1963) — Autor — 83 exemplares
Give Warning to the World (1974) 77 exemplares
The Book of John Brunner (1976) 74 exemplares
A Planet of Your Own / The Beasts of Kohl (Ace Double) (1966) — Autor — 73 exemplares
Secret Agent of Terra / The Rim of Space (1962) — Autor — 66 exemplares
The Altar on Asconel / Android Avenger (1965) — Autor — 59 exemplares
The Evil that Men Do / The Purloined Planet (1969) — Autor — 57 exemplares
Slavers of Space / Dr. Futurity (1960) — Autor — 56 exemplares
The Shift Key (1987) 55 exemplares
The Martian Sphinx (1965) 54 exemplares
Victims Of The Nova (1989) — Autor — 50 exemplares
Rocket To Limbo / Echo In The Skull (Ace Double) (1959) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
The Great Steamboat Race (1983) 50 exemplares
Vulcan's Hammer / The Skynappers (1960) — Autor — 49 exemplares
The Best of John Brunner (1988) 49 exemplares
The Rebellers / Listen! The Stars! (1963) — Autor — 47 exemplares
Beyond The Gate of Worlds (1991) — Autor — 46 exemplares
The 100th Millennium / Edge of Time (1959) — Autor — 45 exemplares
The Atlantic Abomination / The Martian Missile (1960) — Autor — 44 exemplares
Wandl the Invader / I Speak For Earth (Ace Double D-497) (1961) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Secret Martians / Sanctuary In The Sky (1960) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Times Without Number / Destiny's Orbit (1962) — Autor — 38 exemplares
Threshold of Eternity / The War of Two Worlds (1959) — Autor — 38 exemplares
The Gaudy Shadows (1970) 36 exemplares
Father of Lies / Mirror Image (1968) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Black is the Color (1969) 31 exemplares
No Other Gods But Me (1966) 28 exemplares
The Altar on Asconel (1965) 23 exemplares
Endless Shadow (1964) — Autor — 21 exemplares
Out of My Mind (1967) 19 exemplares
A Plague on Both Your Causes (1969) 19 exemplares
A Case of Painter's Ear (1987) 19 exemplares
The Rites of Ohe (1963) 17 exemplares
Foreign Constellations (1980) 17 exemplares
Days of March (1988) 16 exemplares
The Ladder in the Sky (1962) 16 exemplares
A Planet of Your Own (1966) 15 exemplares
The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963) 14 exemplares
Le troupeau aveugle (tome 1) (1972) 14 exemplares
Tomorrow May Be Even Worse (1978) 14 exemplares
Honky in the woodpile (1971) 14 exemplares
Tous à Zanzibar -tome 1 (1968) 13 exemplares
Le troupeau aveugle (tome 2) (1972) 13 exemplares
Enigma from Tantalus (1965) 12 exemplares
Tous à Zanzibar (Tome 2) (1968) 12 exemplares
Listen! The Stars! (1962) 12 exemplares
The 100th Millennium (1959) 11 exemplares
Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : John Brunner (1979) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Wear the Butchers' Medal (1965) 11 exemplares
Sanctuary in the Sky (1960) 10 exemplares
I Speak for Earth (1961) 10 exemplares
The Skynappers (1960) 10 exemplares
Galaxy Science Fiction 1965 April, Vol. 23, No. 4 (1965) — Autor — 10 exemplares
Slavers of Space (1960) 9 exemplares
Threshold of Eternity (1958) 9 exemplares
Thinkertoy {short story} (1996) 8 exemplares
The Evil That Men Do (1969) 8 exemplares
The Space-Time Juggler (1953) 8 exemplares
Good Men Do Nothing (1970) 7 exemplares
New Settlement of Old Scores (1983) 7 exemplares
The Devil's Work (1970) 7 exemplares
Dread Empire [novella] (1971) 6 exemplares
Welten der Zukunft 12 (1986) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Judas [short fiction] (1967) 6 exemplares
Echo in the skull (1959) 5 exemplares
The Things That Are Gods (1979) 5 exemplares
The Iron Jackass (1962) 5 exemplares
A Place of Quiet Assembly (2010) 5 exemplares
Such Stuff [short story] (1962) 5 exemplares
Some Lapse of Time (1963) 5 exemplares
The Psionic Menace (1963) — Pseudonym — 4 exemplares
The Totally Rich [novelette] (1963) 4 exemplares
Fair [short story] (1956) 4 exemplares
The Wager Lost by Winning (1970) 4 exemplares
Puzzle for Spacemen [novelette] (1955) 3 exemplares
Stimulus [novelette] (1962) 3 exemplares
Imprint of Chaos [novelette] (1960) 3 exemplares
The warp and the woof (1966) 3 exemplares
See What I Mean! (1963) 3 exemplares
All Under Heaven {novelette} (1995) 3 exemplares
No Future in It [short story] (1955) 3 exemplares
The Vitanuls (1967) 3 exemplares
The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories (2013) — Autor — 3 exemplares
The Suicide of Man [novelette] (1978) 3 exemplares
Who Steals My Purse [novelette] (1973) 3 exemplares
Sentences of Death (1979) 3 exemplares
While There's Hope (1982) 3 exemplares
The Fourth Power (1960) 2 exemplares
Les Planétaires (2023) 2 exemplares
Father of lies 2 exemplares
Science Fiction Special 25 (1978) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Killing Game (1994) 2 exemplares
X-Hero [short story] 2 exemplares
Host Age 2 exemplares
The Brink 2 exemplares
L'orbite dechiquetee (1971) 2 exemplares
The days of March (1988) 2 exemplares
Moths 2 exemplares
Fair Warning {short story} (1964) 2 exemplares
Single Minded [Short story] (1963) 2 exemplares
Coincidence Day [Short story] (1965) 2 exemplares
Out of Order [short story] (1957) 2 exemplares
Elected Silence [novelette] (1959) 2 exemplares
Orpheus's Brother (1964) 2 exemplares
The Man Who Played the Blues (1955) 2 exemplares
Whirligig! (1967) 2 exemplares
When Gabriel... (1956) 2 exemplares
Badman [short story] (1960) 2 exemplares
Science Fiction Special 13 (1975) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Le Voyageur en noir (2024) 1 exemplar
Horses At Home 1 exemplar
Good with Rice 1 exemplar
Time Scoop 1 exemplar
Even Chance (SS) 1 exemplar
Round Trip [Short story] (1959) 1 exemplar
The Invisible Idiot — Autor — 1 exemplar
Science Fiction Special 8 (1973) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Seizure [Short story] (1966) 1 exemplar
Prerogative [Short story] (1960) 1 exemplar
Pond Water 1 exemplar
The Easy Way Out 1 exemplar
Planet Fall (SS) 1 exemplar
Amends 1 exemplar
La Tétralogie noire (2018) 1 exemplar
Web of Everything 1 exemplar
Dropping Ghyll 1 exemplar
La Cité du Tigre 1 exemplar

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Só a Terra Permanece (1949) — Prefácio, algumas edições3,606 exemplares
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Contribuidor — 1,895 exemplares
Thieves' World (1987) — Contribuidor — 1,544 exemplares
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995) — Contribuidor — 943 exemplares
After the King (1991) — Contribuidor — 759 exemplares
Aftermath (1987) — Contribuidor — 460 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contribuidor — 376 exemplares
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989) — Contribuidor — 328 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 314 exemplares
The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977) — Editor — 265 exemplares
Year's Best SF 2 (1997) — Contribuidor — 260 exemplares
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Contribuidor — 248 exemplares
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) — Contribuidor — 242 exemplares
The Fleet (1988) — Contribuidor — 235 exemplares
The 1976 Annual World's Best SF (1976) — Autor — 212 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
The Overlords of War (1971) — Tradutor, algumas edições200 exemplares
The 1978 Annual World's Best SF (1977) — Contribuidor, algumas edições199 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 190 exemplares
Dangerous Visions 3 (1967) — Contribuidor — 184 exemplares
10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1965) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991) — Contribuidor — 155 exemplares
Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey (1996) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
The Necronomicon (1901) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1961) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
The Ninth Galaxy Reader (1966) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
The Horns of Elfland (1997) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Day of the Tyrant (1985) — Contribuidor — 119 exemplares
Other Worlds, Other Gods (1971) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
8th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1963) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Spectrum 4 (1965) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
After Armageddon (1990) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 (1964) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
The Necronomicon (Chaosium ∙ 2nd Edition ∙ 2008) (2002) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Three Trips in Time and Space (1973) — Autor — 88 exemplares
SF: Authors' Choice 4 (1974) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6 (1980) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1946) — Editor — 76 exemplares
Young Mutants (1984) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
The Ultimate Zombie (1993) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Best SF Stories from New Worlds (1967) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
More Adventures on Other Planets (1963) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Thieves' World: First Blood (2003) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Dark Stars (1969) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
New Worlds of Fantasy (1967) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
The IF Reader of Science Fiction (1966) — Autor, algumas edições59 exemplares
Science Against Man (1970) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Fantasy Annual III (1977) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Best Science Fiction for 1972 (1972) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Best New Horror 4 (1993) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Fellowship of the Stars (1974) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Quark/2 (1971) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Fine Frights (Anthology) (1988) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
The Witchcraft Reader (1969) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Genometry (2001) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Great Science Fiction Adventures (1963) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 8 (1974) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Introductory Psychology through Science Fiction (1974) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Explorations of the Marvellous (1976) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus (2016) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Stars of Albion (1979) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
The Best of British SF 1 (1977) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
The Williamson Effect (1996) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Touch Wood (1993) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Shoredanin kellot (1992) — Autor — 35 exemplares
Alien Worlds (1964) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Heaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the Angels (1995) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Warlocks and Warriors (1971)algumas edições29 exemplares
Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice (1984) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Future Crimes (2021) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Holding your eight hands; an anthology of science fiction verse (1969) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1982 (1982) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void (2021) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Dark Voices 4 : the Pan Book of Horror (1992) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 20, No. 3 [March 1996] (1996) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Drabble Project (1988) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Dark Voices 2 (1990) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Space Pioneers (1954) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 21, No. 4 [April 1997] (1997) — Autor — 16 exemplares
Splinters (1968) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Contribuidor, algumas edições13 exemplares
Galaxy Science Fiction 1969 January, Vol. 27, No. 6 (1969) — Autor — 12 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 65. Cyrion in Bronze. (1983) — Contribuidor, algumas edições10 exemplares
Worlds of Tomorrow No. 02, June 1963 (1963) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Rat Tales (1994) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Hammer and Bolter: Issue 1 (2010) — Contribuidor, algumas edições7 exemplares
Welten der Zukunft 4 (1985) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Time of Passage (1978) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Fantastic. No. 165 (October 1971) (1971) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Fantastic. No. 167 (February 1972) (1972) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction (1988) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 91 • December 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Dark Voices 6 (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Amazing Stories Vol. 47, No. 6 [April 1974] (1974) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Amazing Stories Vol. 45, No. 4 [November 1971] (1971) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Strange Pleasures 2 (2003) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Supernovæ (1993) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Millemondi Inverno 1996 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — Autor — 2 exemplares
Science Fiction Review #29 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Strange Fantasy #13 Fall '70 (1970) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Happy Birthday, John Brunner em Dystopian novels (Setembro 2013)

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Not throwaway Brunner, like many of his lesser known books, but not something to seek out. It's one of those SF books from the 1960s and 1970s that make me wonder if our brains worked differently then. It's fairly far into the future, where we have some space colonies, and have met several alien races, but everything pretty much functions just the same, with a tiny bit more automation. Our hero works for the Bureau of Cultural Affairs, doing low level policy with said aliens. He has a boss that yells at him at the drop of hat for hard to fathom reasons. That appear to stem from our hero being a bit of a sandbagger. That seems to bother people more than the discovery of a new race of aliens. There's an inordinate amount of concern that they first made contact with one of the colonies, called Starhome. There's suspicion that Starhome is doing some devious with protocol but it all seems like a tempest in a teapot, given what should seem to be a major event in human history. There's the usual chauvinistic attitudes towards women. With a title like "The Long Result" I was expecting something a bit more cosmic.

Only for Brunner completists.
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ChrisRiesbeck | 3 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2024 |
Well this was interesting but in beginning very tiresome experience. First two thirds of the book feel like watching multiple parallel movie reels projected on the same screen and overlapping in a way that can make you agitated very soon because basic plot is hidden below these overlays and it takes time for it to come up.

If you ever watched Paul Verhoeven's SF movies then these multiple story paths play the role of Vehoeven's commercial "breaks" but in a much more aggressive manner.

So first part is crazy, its like watching a movie with 100 actors and having about 1-1.5 minute dedicated to each of them. No way you can remember all of this stuff or what is actually going on.

Story is very contemporary. Through our main protagonist, Nick, we are given a very dystopian picture of the future. Picture that unfortunately resonates with out present. It is world where data networks (what today we call Internet) rule everything, everything is run by them (whether that should be the case or not - again same as in our present) and people are considered by powers to be [that control these very networks] as nothing more than objects providing data to mainframe systems (now popularly called clouds, but you get the gist). Information is everything and humans are treated as simple data carriers - external disks or sensors.

Nick, being trained by elite corporation, uses all he knows to evade the now de-facto full control of life executed through the data network. Destined to become one of the soulless, almost robotic operatives that form think tanks for almost every political or social problem or issue, Nick manages to identify this process of eliminating empathy or anything that does not comply with the expected behavior. He proves to be quite an actor and capable to evade the tests and finally manages to escape with the goal of living off the grid. But as he tries to evade and as he lives through multiple identities spanning few years he finally gets caught by the corporation when he finally learns what love is and lowers his guard. And corporation is ruthless, they need to see what is it that turned Nick, their prize operative, against them. And they need to know how to stop it. So they use every means at their disposal.

I wont go into the details here because it would ruin the story but again I have to say story is frighteningly reminiscent of our present.

Constant bombardment of people with useless information - everything that can be useful is made difficult to find while TV shows, commercials, reality shows akin to gladiatorial fights and opinion polls [used more to push people towards certain options then to give actual options, sort of a sinister Schroedinger's cat lab] are everywhere. It is world where nothing is lacking but still life has no meaning, people are estranged from themselves, there is no family, and only constant is continuous movement, migration from one coast to other, of people for various reasons (change is always good being the most popular one) so they cannot grow their roots. Reason is simple, constantly on the move, constantly bombarded by rubbish people get more pliable and smaller problem for the government. And if in this constant movement every place is same as the other so people feel that actually nothing is changed so they remain compliant- then all the better because people will accept anything just to avoid rustling feathers of those who control them especially when they have a hint of what awaits them if they rebel.

As I said terrible, terrible view of the future that became in great part our present.

Author also shows one other part of our present that came up in last two years - how easy it is for vengeful government to foment negative opinions using various so called spin-doctors and rob people from the very means of life (asset freezing) or even their life (through mobbing and attacks via social media) in a matter of seconds. Something that would previously take court orders is now willingly done by banks and companies so they just can be spared of any pogroms by activists - as if reasoning that if people are innocent they will survive but basically leaving them in the open to die, figuratively and literally. How easy it is to erase the person .... And how easy is for the entire population to shrug their shoulders and decide to live under the mass bubble of only one source of information.

Author blames this to the links of organized crime with high levels of government and big corporations. This is only part I disagree - it is not organized crime as a third party (in terms of mafia or something like that) but those forces in government and business that always acted above the law and are now given the ultimate means of control. These are the greatest crime organizations in history of humankind.

Book has a happy ending of sorts, at least provides a dim light at the end of the tunnel. Reason is simple, actions of few can only start the change but people need to chose it and fight for it. And how many will decide to use the information provided in a way it was intended, for knowledge? Very few unfortunately, because it is easier to track celebrities and get on with the most popular political/social idea of the moment and deal with the heretics. Because understanding and attention is to be given only to those who in the end do not affect us directly - when we feel that somebody thinks differently, even by just asking questions - today, discussion is no longer an option, one must silence every difference. In day and age of so much talk about equality world has become aggressively intolerable. As author says people are no longer looked at as individuals but as some preconceived notion of human being together with all expected beliefs and thoughts. If one does not match the mold he is very soon send to recovery institutions.

I just hope there is more than one Precipice in the world. Otherwise ..... bad, bad, bad......

Very interesting book, highly recommended.

P.S.

One of the best parts of the book is the way people try to get meaning to their lives and activities - way marketing experts and other spin-doctors get treated is one of the best kicks from the book :)
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Zare | 25 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |
The worst part is that the resolution is exactly what any decent reader suspected all along. This is okay in the sense that it is tidy and the structure of the novel suits. However, now it feels like the whole thing was a bit of a waste and maybe could have just been a short story.

I like reading Brunner novels. I think he was a very good writer. This novel still has a lot of merit to it. However, its just such a fail in terms of reality, it almost feels like Brunner was hand-waving at things. Well, if you are only going to be dismissive of problems – do not attempt to tackle them and bring them in as the major elements of your story! I cannot understand what happened here, other than to give some credit to Brunner for the oddness of it all. Brunner fans only.… (mais)
 
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AQsReviews | 4 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
Story: 5 / 10
Characters: 6
Setting: 7.5
Prose: 4

Themes: Software, hacking, government, spying
 
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MXMLLN | 25 outras críticas | Jan 12, 2024 |

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