The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru - The Shockwave Rider by Brunner, John - AbeBooks Skip to main content. · Author Bio: John Brunner. John Brunner (–) was born in Preston Crowmarsh, Great Britain. He is the author of over one hundred books, including the Hugo Award–winning Stand on Zanzibar, as well as The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, The Shockwave Rider, A Maze of Stars, and The Compleat Traveller in Black. In addition to writing mystery, science fiction, and fantasy . The Shockwave Rider|John Brunner, Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations Of The Writings Of The Fathers Down To A.D. Volume The Works Of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius Attributed To The First Three Centuries|Gregory Thaumaturgus Dionysius Of Alexandria Archelaus, Matters Of Fact And Of Fiction: Essays |Gore Vidal, Handbook For Academic Authors|Beth .
Sale price: $ or 1 credit. Free with day trial. The Shockwave Rider. By: John Brunner. Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki. Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins. Unabridged. Overall. out of 5 stars The Shockwave Rider Quotes Showing of "There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.". ― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider. The Shockwave Rider audiobook by John Brunner, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. From a Hugo Award-winning author who "writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it" (The New York Times Book Review): In the near future, personal data is logged at an outstanding rate — so hacker Nickie Haflinger's ability to conjure new identities makes him an.
John Brunner is arguably the innovator of the cyberpunk genre (think Neuromancer or Count Zero from William Gibson, or Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age or Snow Crash). The Shockwave Rider tells a story of a dystopian future, where every aspect of daily life is controlled by corporations, humans are slaves to their station in life, and there's no hope or escape. In the best of his books (Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, and Shockwave Rider), Brunner takes one problematic element of modern society and extrapolates into the future. In Stand on Zanzibar it is population pressure; in The Sheep Look Up it is environmental pollution; in Shockwave Rider it is the increasing rate of change and its effect on us. The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word " worm " to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.
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