Polymath (24 page)
John Brunner (1934-1995) was a prolific British SF writer. In 1951, he published his first novel,
Galactic Storm
, at the age of just 17, and went on to write dozens of novels under his own and various house names until his death in 1995 at the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Award for
Stand on Zanzibar
(a regular contender for the ‘best SF novel of all time’) and the British Science Fiction Award for
The Jagged Orbit
.
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright © John Brunner 1974
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First published in Great Britain in 1974
This eBook first published in 2011 by Gollancz
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is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978 0 575 10163 0
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