Now in a Tor Essentials edition, the Hugo Award-winning, uncannily prophetic Stand on Zanizbar is a science fiction novel unlike any before in that remains an insightful look at America's downfall that allows us to see what has been, what is, and what is to come."There are certain things John Brunner achieved, which no one has done before or since." - Bruce SterlingGenetic engineering is routine, corporations have usurped democracy, technology...
In three fascinating and ground-breaking novellas, John Brunner weaves an ingenious tale of a divergent and compelling timeline, and poses complex questions of how we perceive the fourth dimension and its relation to our own identity.
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Excerpt from Sunday Evening Talks With Little FolksOne of the most popular contributors to the Sunday School Visitor. His beautiful sto ries and instructive essays have been read by hundreds with delight and profit who will pe ruse these pages. There is in his style a sim ple purity and directness which pleases old and young, and, what is better, running through all is a vein of unaffected piety. His object is to do good, and we are sure no on...
Excerpt from The Union of the ChurchesFull many a brook, and oft a river, Has parted in its onward ¿ow, And blent again, with joyous quiver, In smiling vale not far below.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pr...
The legendary John Brunner wrote the original Threshold of Eternity in 1957. Sixty years later Damien Broderick revisits the world Brunner created in that classic, forward-looking story and modernizes it to retell the exciting tale of time travelers, augmented intelligences and aliens. When Korean war vet Ret. Corporal Lawrence "Red" Hawkins stumbles across a doctor from the future, he embarks on the most important journey of his life…with the...
John Brunner beschrijft in 'Iedereen op Zanzibar' een toekomst waarin de wereldbevolking uit zijn voegen barst. Er bestaat een enorme kloof tussen arm en rijk. Vage bedrijven weten immense winsten te maken dankzij de algoritmische voorspellingen van hun computers. Bijna iedereen in de ontwikkelde wereld is ontevreden en ongelukkig, maar wordt onder de duim gehouden door een eff ectieve combinatie van kal-meren de middelen en interactieve tv.
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Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created a future world as real as this morning's newspaper ... With a new introduction by Ken MacLeod.
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and k...
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Poor daubs! Not fit to be a chapel's treasure! Full many a taunting word upon them fell, But the good abbot let him, for his pleasure, Adorn with them his solitary Cell.
One night the poor monk mused: Could I but render. Honor to Christ as other painters do, Were but my skill as great as is the tender Love that inspires me when his cross I View!
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