The author of more than sixty novels of science fiction and fantasy, together with novels of mystery or conventional fiction, collections of short stories, many uncollected stories, poems, songs, translations, essays, and a movie script, John Brunner...

John Brunner was one of the leading British science fiction writers of the last four decades. He died in Glasgow while attending - among hundreds of other authors and publishers and nearly 5,000 fans of the genre - the World Science Fiction Convention in...

John Updike, by now, has placed dozens of those books on library shelves. All of them have a style that dazzles and a subject matter of special interest to Christians. Life. That's Updike's subject matter. Life, not in a vacuum, but...

Government is a key ingredient in Brunner's recent work. He develops his major theme, human survival, around it. He directly comments on it as part of his social criticism and frequently makes it a determining factor in his novels. This is certainly the case in [his most politically orientated novels,] The Squares of the City, Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up. All are first-rate political novels because they tell the reader something significant about politics—the act...

John Brunner's best work is related to the tradition of literary naturalism. His fictions offer projections into the relatively near future—a few decades—of trends that are clearly detectable in the present. He works with large canvasses, building worlds out of many individual lives. He himself has expressed his indebtedness to John Dos Passos for his naturalistic blend of fiction and documents from the communications media, but he has altered the technique of Dos Passos in several cruc...