John Brunner

Crime-fighter John Brunner running computations on his Lee and Turner color projector, which he had custom modified for use as a scrying engine.

John Brunner (? - ?) is a time-travelling crime-fighter.

Brunner was a first responder to the Pi disaster, and is widely credited with preventing the Pi catastrophe.

Brunner experienced the first known manifestation of Malleable Past, Useless Future syndrome.

Commentary

Author, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller John Brunner used a bespoke Lee and Turner color projector as a transdimensional scrying engine.

Not quite time travel proper, but he did break the Programmer Moriarity case.

Also, without Brunner's time-scrying, we would never know that [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED] — respectable historical figures — were in fact [EXPLETIVE]-[REDACTED] and [REDACTED]-[EXPLETIVE].

In the News

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  2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.

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  Pipe-smoking figure in The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn said to be John Brunner.

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  Lee and Turner color projector converted to scrying engine.

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  1967: Brunner says he is "bloody certain in his own mind" that Brownian ratchet (nonfiction) is cover story for Brownian racket.

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  Napolean Bonaparte's death mask reveals secrets to John Brunner.

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  Writer and peace activist John Brunner denies being a crime-fighter, "whether time-travelling or otherwise."

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Malleable Past, Useless Future
• Pi catastrophe
• Pika
• Programmer Moriarity

Nonfiction cross-reference

• John Brunner (nonfiction)