"Brunner writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it!" --The New York Times Book Review "When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write the book, I was fascinated--but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has, with cool brilli
The Shockwave Rider
β Scribed by John Brunner
- Publisher
- Hachette Littlehampton
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Edition
- Gollancz eBook (2011)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0575101660
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook }
ebook, 288 pages
Published 1975
Gollancz eBook (2011)
Masterworks of Science Fiction
He was the most dangerous fugitive alive, but he didn't exist! Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes... but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code - then he escaped. Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerised masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster. He didn't care how he did it... but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs... and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education! First published in 1975.
Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1976), Ditmar Award Nominee for Best International Long Fiction (1976)
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