The Best of John Brunner
1988 collection of short stories by John Brunner
0-345-35307-2The Best of John Brunner is a collection of science fiction short stories by British author John Brunner. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine/Del Rey in November 1988 as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction.[1]
Summary
The book contains seventeen short works of fiction by the author, together with an introduction by Joe Haldeman.[1]
Contents
- "Introduction: The Brunner Mosaic" (Joe Haldeman)
- "The Totally Rich" (from Worlds of Tomorrow, Jun. 1963)
- "The Last Lonely Man" (from New Worlds SF no. 142, May/Jun. 1964)
- "Galactic Consumer Report No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines" (from Galaxy Magazine, Dec. 1965)
- "Fair" (from New Worlds Science Fiction no. 45, Mar. 1956)
- "Such Stuff" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jun. 1962)
- "Galactic Consumer Report No. 2: Automatic Twin-Tube Wishing Machines" (from Galaxy Magazine, Jun. 1966)
- "Tracking with Close-ups (21) and (23)" (excerpts from Stand on Zanzibar, 1968)
- "X-Hero" (from Omni, Mar. 1980)
- "No Future in It" (from Science Fantasy, Sep. 1955)
- "Galactic Consumer Report No. 3: A Survey of the Membership" (from Galaxy Magazine, Dec. 1967)
- "What Friends Are For" (from Fellowship of the Stars, 1974)
- "The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug. 1977)
- "Galactic Consumer Report No. 4: Thing-of-the-Month Clubs" (from Galaxy Magazine, Jan. 1969)
- "The Man Who Saw the Thousand-Year Reich" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov. 1981)
- "An Elixir for the Emperor" (from Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Nov. 1964)
- "The Suicide of Man" (from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Jul./Aug. 1978)
- "The Vitanuls" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul. 1967)
Reception
The book was reviewed by Tom Whitmore in Locus no. 334, November 1988.[1]
Awards
The book placed thirteenth in the 1989 Locus Poll Award for Best Collection. [1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d The Best of John Brunner title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- v
- t
- e
Works by John Brunner
- Echo in the Skull (1959)
- The World Swappers (1959)
- Slavers of Space (1960)
- The Atlantic Abomination (1960)
- Secret Agent of Terra (1962)
- The Super Barbarians (1962)
- Listen! The Stars! (1963)
- The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963)
- To Conquer Chaos (1964)
- The Whole Man (1964)
- The Martian Sphinx (1965)
- The Long Result (1965)
- The Squares of the City (1965)
- The Productions of Time (1967)
- Stand on Zanzibar Doubleday (1968), (1969)
- Double, Double (1969)
- The Jagged Orbit (1969)
- The Sheep Look Up (1972)
- Web of Everywhere (1974)
- The Shockwave Rider (1975)
- The Infinitive of Go (1980)
- Players at the Game of People (1980)
- The Crucible of Time (1983)
- The Tides of Time (1984)
- Children of the Thunder (1989)
- A Maze of Stars (1991)
- Muddle Earth (1993)
- Times Without Number (1962)
- Not Before Time (1968)
- The Traveler in Black (1971)
- Entry to Elsewhen (1972)
- The Best of John Brunner (1988)