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

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."