New Releases by John Brunner

The Acre was the only part of an entire world where Earthmen were allowed to live as they pleased and as they were accustomed. For elsewhere on Quallavarra, humanity was forced into servitude by the Vorra, THE SUPER BARBARIANS, who has somehow managed to conquer space. But within the Acre, the underling Terrestrials had cooked up a neat method of keeping teir conquerors from stamping them out altogether. They had uncovered a diabolical Earth secret the Vorra couldn''t abide - and yet couldn''t do without.

By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population. A solution had to be found quickly - and it was, in ''gravi-power''. Wonderful, unending source of power - only the scientists knew that its use was reducing the Earth''s distance from the sun at a dangerous rate. But if another planet''s gravi-power could harnessed . . . An expedition was launched to Mars, known to be uninhabited - except that a woman was wandering around its surface who claimed she had come from another galaxy to warn Earth of a terrible menace, and there was a huge poly-hedron of metal emanting a force very much like that of gravipower. Someone else had discovered it! A thousand years ago, or now? Friend, or enemy? (First published 1965)

It was carnival time on Earth. Prosperity was at its peak; science had triumphed over environment; all human needs were taken care of by computers, robots and androids. There was nothing left for humans to do but enjoy, themselves . . . to seek pleasure where they found it, without inhibitions and without thinking of the price. Then an android died - in a senseless, brutal murder. And young Derry Horn was shocked out of his boredom and alienation. His life of flabby ease had not prepared him for a fantastically dangerous mission to outlying, primitive stars - but now, at last, he had a reason for living. And even when he found himself a prisoner of ruthless slavers, even when he learned the shocking truth about what the androids really were and where they came from . . . even when he saw all the laws of the orderly, civilised universe he knew turned upside-down and inside-out . . . he fought on. For that universe had to be shattered and reborn - even if Derry Horn and the Earth he had irrevocably left behind died in the process! (First published 1968)

Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe. Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thousand years. What mysterious disaster destroyed man''s nearest neighbour in the colossal emptiness of space? And will the same fate befall Earth? The answers, as Earth degenerates into squabbles, paranoia and self-destruction, are vital. But how to begin the almost insuperable task of cracking the enigma of a long-buried and utterly alien culture?

El rebano ciego es, en mi opinion y por todo tipo de razones, la mejor novela de ciencia-ficcion jamas escrita, sin discusion. -John Grant, coeditor de The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction La contaminacion atmosferica ha llegado a tales extremos que ponerse una mascara de gas para salir a la calle es ahora lo mas corriente del mundo. Las tasas de mortandad infantil siguen subiendo, y todo el mundo parece estar aquejado de algun tipo de enfermedad. El agua es toxica y solo los pobres beben del grifo. Las acciones del gobierno son inutiles, cuando las emprende, y las grandes corporaciones se disputan los beneficios de las ventas de purificadores de agua, mascaras de gas y alimentos biologicos. El ecologista Austin Train vive a la carrera. Los trainitas, activistas medioambientales y terroristas ocasionales, quieren que encabece su movimiento. El gobierno lo quiere entre rejas o, a ser posible, ejecutado. Los medios de comunicacion quieren espectaculo. Todo el mundo tiene algun plan para Train, pero el ya ha trazado los suyos. Y pronto dejara de correr... El legendario autor de ciencia-ficcion John Brunner, galardonado con el Premio Hugo y dos veces ganador del British Science Fiction Award, un visionario, predijo la creacion de Internet y acuno el termino gusano para describir ciertos virus informaticos. Brunner participo activamente en la comunidad de la ciencia-ficcion; asistio a multitud de convenciones y contribuyo al genero con decenas de novelas. Sus ideas politicas acerca de la superpoblacion, el control de la informacion, los conflictos raciales y el medio ambiente dictan el tono de sus obras mas conocidas: la ganadora del Hugo Todos sobre Zanzibar, la ciberpunk El jinete de la onda de choque, Orbita inestable y El rebano ciego. John Brunner nos abandono en 1995. Introduccion a cargo de David Brin Epilogo del ecologista James John Bell Una obra maestra de tragica complejidad... John Brunner es el Rachel Carson de la ciencia-ficcion. -Ian Watson La mejor novela de Brunner que he leido... asombrosamente controlada y dramatica... una obra de arte. -James Blish Absorbente, tanto a nivel emocional como intelectual. -Booklist Brunner se ha labrado un lugar en la cima de la literatura especulativa mas seria. -Library Journal Una descomunal alucinacion del estertoreo fin del mundo por parte de uno de nuestros autores de ciencia-ficcion con mas talento... la novela, con su sobrecogedora propuesta de una biosfera devastada, impacta a todos los niveles. -Kirkus Reviews Un cautivador diario de la que se nos avecina... el futuro elige el metodo de pago contra reembolso. -Washington Post

Although skeptics claim that the "Necronomicon" is a fantastic tome created by H.P. Lovecraft, true seekers into the esoteric mysteries of the world know the truth: the "Necronomicon" is the blasphemous tome of forbidden knowledge written by the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred. Even today, after attempts over the centuries to destroy any and all copies in any language, some few copies still exist, secreted away. Within this book you will find stories about the "Necronomicon," different versions of the "Necronomicon," and two essays on this blasphemous tome. Now you too may learn the true lore of Abdul Alhazred.

He was the most dangerous fugitive alive, but he didn’t exist! Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes . . . but technically he didn’t exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code—then he escaped. Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster. He didn’t care how he did it—but the government did. That’s when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs . . . and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education.

Science fiction-roman.

Jadis, pour réussir au-delà de ses capacités, on vendait son âme au diable. A moins que ce ne soit à des êtres plus avancés que nous sur la route de l''évolution et qui traitent certains humains comme des animaux de compagnie ?...

"Once there was a mighty empire spanning the stars. once there had been great emperors ruling hundreds of inhabited planets, patrolling the star lanes with fleets of starcruisers, built to the perfection of a technology never before reached by man. And like all empires in human history, that one, the greatest of them all, declined and fell. Its colony worlds were left to themselves, falling into a galactic Dark Age of ignorance, barbarism, superstition. But they had one heritage in common--the imperial starships still functioned. They were self-repairing, foolproof, impervious, and obeyed the commands of any who reached their simplified controls."--Pg. [4] of cover.

Creohan the astronomer discovers a star on a collision course with Earth and begins a quest to find a way of averting disaster.