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== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|Crime fighter [[John Brunner]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|Crime fighter [[John Brunner]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|[[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] declines all invitations to form crime-fighting teams, says he prefers academic life. | File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|[[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] declines all invitations to form crime-fighting teams, says he prefers academic life. | ||
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== Excerpts == | |||
From ''Children of the Thunder'' (1988): | |||
"He keyed in his fourteen-letter password, which since this was an American database was THEBEERSTOOCOLD, and waited for the screen to light." | |||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
Revision as of 16:11, 27 June 2018
John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 26 August 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories.
His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and the BSFA award the same year.
In the News
Crime fighter John Brunner uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
Marshall McLuhan declines all invitations to form crime-fighting teams, says he prefers academic life.
Excerpts
From Children of the Thunder (1988):
"He keyed in his fourteen-letter password, which since this was an American database was THEBEERSTOOCOLD, and waited for the screen to light."
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- John Brunner (novelist) @ Wikipedia
- John Brunner @ Wikiquotes