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 famously declined an invitation to join the Tuttle Expedition.

This was Richard Tuttle's attempt to "get to the bottom of it all" by seeking out the Pika in its lair.

Tuttle assembled a crack team of post-Cubists and early Abstract Expressionists, paying them handsomely to "Seek the Pik", as he put it, and the expedition descended in high hopes. But no one returned to tell the tale.

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

In the News

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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

• Malleable Past, Useless Future
• Pi catastrophe
• Pika

Nonfiction cross-reference

• John Brunner (nonfiction)