Works by John Brunner

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by John Brunner, Short Story Collections by John Brunner, the Shockwave Rider, the Stardroppers, Stand on Zanzibar, the Infinitive of Go, Entry to Elsewhen, the Sheep Look Up, the Jagged Orbit, the Compleat Traveller in Black, Secret Agent of Terra, Children of the Thunder, the Whole Man, to Conquer Chaos, the Squares of the City, the Super Barbarians, Not Before Time, the World Swappers, the Martian Sphinx, the Productions of Time, Into the Slave Nebula, Timescoop, Muddle Earth, Players at the Game of People, Double, Double, the Shift Key, Manshape. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Children of the Thunder Children of the Thunder is a 1988 science fiction novel by John Brunner .The novel explores several themes: environment degradation of the modern world (which Brunner believed was shortening his own life), paternal irresponsibility (in the form of accepting cash for donating sperm to a sperm bank ), and conservative (fascist ) tendencies in British politics . The latter may reflect that the book was written during the Thatcher years.Like other Brunner books, the novel lacks cohesiveness in various ways, and is best read as a series of interconnected vignettes, each of which explores the above themes in a different context, with a culminating scene at the end of the book which is frightening in various ways, including a partial role reversal of the protagonist and villain .In those terms, the book can be seen as an attack of the author on excessive sexual freedom of men gained in the so-called sexual revolution . While sexual fulfillment itself is not demonized, the book catalogs extensive collateral damage in the form of single mothers and offspring not properly cared for. But this is not a kind-hearted appeal for better support systems for ...