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John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 25 August 1995) 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 novel and the BSFA Award the same year.
Aug 26, 1995 · 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 17, and published it under the pen-name Gill Hunt, but he did not start writing full-time until 1958.
ISBN. 0-09-919110-5. Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopian New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first in part published in NEW WORLDS in 1967 and in book form in 1968. The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award.
John Brunner has 532 books on Goodreads with 156502 ratings. John Brunner’s most popular book is Stand on Zanzibar.
A successful book written by author John Brunner is the 1965 Hugo Award-nominated novel entitled ‘The Whole Man’. It was released in 1964 by Collier Books. This book revolves around the life of the central character named Gerald Howson.
These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions.
People shop in huge department stores, and the streets are adorned with advertisements in electric lights. But even Verne’s novel has to take second place to John Brunner’s Stand On Zanzibar (S.F. MASTERWORKS), which was published over fifty years ago, in 1968.
