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[[File:John Brunner uses scrying engine to defeat Forbidden Ratio.jpg|thumb|Crime-fighter John Brunner defeats the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat suing Lee and Turner color projector, which Brunner had modified for use as a [[scrying engine]].]]'''John Brunner''' (? - ?) is | [[File:John Brunner uses scrying engine to defeat Forbidden Ratio.jpg|thumb|Crime-fighter John Brunner defeats the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat suing Lee and Turner color projector, which Brunner had modified for use as a [[scrying engine]].]]'''John Brunner''' (? - ?) is an alleged time-traveling crime-fighter. | ||
Brunner was a first responder to the [[Pi disaster]], and is widely credited with preventing the [[Pi catastrophe]]. | Brunner was a first responder to the [[Pi disaster]], and is widely credited with preventing the [[Pi catastrophe]]. | ||
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Author, crime-fighter, and alleged time- | Author, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveler 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. | Not quite time travel proper, but he did break the [[Programmer Moriarity]] case. | ||
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File:Brunner_-_Scrying_engine_-_Edge_of_Eternity.jpg|Brunner analyzes his novel ''Edge of Eternity'' using a bespoke Lee and Turner color [[scrying engine]]. | |||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner. | File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner. | ||
File:The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn.jpg|link=The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn (nonfiction)|Pipe-smoking figure in ''[[The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn (nonfiction)|The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn]]'' said to be John Brunner. | File:The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn.jpg|link=The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn (nonfiction)|Pipe-smoking figure in ''[[The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn (nonfiction)|The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn]]'' said to be John Brunner. | ||
File:Lee and Turner color projector 1902.jpg|Lee and Turner color projector converted to [[scrying engine]]. | File:Lee and Turner color projector 1902.jpg|Lee and Turner color projector converted to [[scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1967: Brunner says he is "bloody certain in his own mind" that [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)]] is cover story for [[Brownian racket]]. | File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1967: Brunner says he is "bloody certain in his own mind" that [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)]] is cover story for [[Brownian racket]]. | ||
File:Totenmaske_Napoleon_Bonaparte.jpg|link=Napolean Bonaparte|[[Napolean Bonaparte|Napolean Bonaparte's death mask]] reveals secrets to John Brunner. | File:Totenmaske_Napoleon_Bonaparte.jpg|link=Napolean Bonaparte|[[Napolean Bonaparte|Napolean Bonaparte's death mask]] reveals secrets to John Brunner. | ||
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] denies being a crime-fighter, "whether time-travelling or otherwise." | File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] denies being a crime-fighter, "whether time-travelling or otherwise." | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [ Post] @ Twitter (21 February 2021) | |||
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1355319518378291200 Post] @ Twitter | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1355319518378291200 Post] @ Twitter | ||
Latest revision as of 19:50, 20 November 2021
John Brunner (? - ?) is an alleged time-traveling 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-traveler 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
Brunner analyzes his novel Edge of Eternity using a bespoke Lee and Turner color scrying engine.
2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.
Pipe-smoking figure in The Nightwatchman Spins a Yarn said to be John Brunner.
Lee and Turner color projector converted to scrying engine.
1967: Brunner says he is "bloody certain in his own mind" that Brownian ratchet (nonfiction) is cover story for Brownian racket.
Napolean Bonaparte's death mask reveals secrets to John Brunner.
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
External links
- [ Post] @ Twitter (21 February 2021)
- Post @ Twitter