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John Brunner (1934–1995) was a prolific British SF writer. In 1951, he published his first novel,
Galactic Storm
, at the age of just 17, and went on to write dozens of novels under his own and various house names until his death in 1995 at the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Award for
Stand on Zanzibar
(a regular contender for the ‘best SF novel of all time’) and the British Science Fiction Award for
The Jagged Orbit
.
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Copyright © John Brunner 1961
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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in Great Britain in 1961
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is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978 0 575 10120 3
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