The Shockwave Rider eBook John Brunner
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In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him, in this smart, edgy novel by a Hugo Award–winning author.
Constantly shifting his identity among a population choking on information, innovation, and novelty, Nickie Haflinger is a most dangerous outlaw, yet he doesn’t even appear to exist. As global society falls apart in all directions, with corporate power run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats, Haflinger is caught and about to be re-programmed. Now he has to try to escape once again, defy the government—and turn the tide of organizational destruction, in this visionary science fiction novel by the author of The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar.
“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 brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it as twitched at me ever since.” —Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock
“One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to save us from ourselves.” —SF Site
Constantly shifting his identity among a population choking on information, innovation, and novelty, Nickie Haflinger is a most dangerous outlaw, yet he doesn’t even appear to exist. As global society falls apart in all directions, with corporate power run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats, Haflinger is caught and about to be re-programmed. Now he has to try to escape once again, defy the government—and turn the tide of organizational destruction, in this visionary science fiction novel by the author of The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar.
“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 brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it as twitched at me ever since.” —Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock
“One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to save us from ourselves.” —SF Site
The Shockwave Rider eBook John Brunner
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. One man has found a way to fight the system, to hide who he is by altering his identity, and makes multiple attempts to change the system for the better. His backstory is filled in as the book progresses, how he came to be who he is and why he is able to do the things he is able to do.
Some of the writing is a bit ham-handed (I don't think Brunner displays a deft hand when it comes to interpersonal relationships), but the more general over-arching themes of government-corporate partnership, social stratification, global surveillance, and cultural oppressiveness are well fleshed out carry the story. If you enjoy cyberpunk or dystopian future stories, it's worth a read.
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The Shockwave Rider eBook John Brunner Reviews
This is an excellent book for those who enjoy working with computers, history, politics and science fiction. I found several passages that match my own philosophy and ideas about government. Definitely worth the time.
A prophetic book, that's only 43 years old; a dystopian future written before people used that word; a cyberpunk novel before there was such a thing. Still relevant today.
A great SF story of a future that could've been. Thought provoking with characters you can care about.
For a book published in 1975, it really felt like it had been written and published in 2005. It was so forward-looking in many ways, and did a really good job of hitting some of the major feelings of modern society, without feeling too dated. Sure, some of it, like the massive preponderance of public phones was a little off, but who could have guessed that cell phones would have killed them entirely? John Brunner is a SF author who deserves way more notice than he's gotten. I'd definitely give this a try.
I will be honest - my actual review is 4 stars instead of 5. This amazing book has been so ignored by the Sci Fi community that I am bumping it up to 5 stars.
Near future Sci Fi is difficult to pull off because if the book stays around long enough the predictions will be disproved. Brunner managed to get a lot of his predictions right. "Tapeworms" and "phages" predicted computer worms and viruses. The hacking and lack of privacy looks correct. We are on the verge of the "genetic optimization" prediction. "Economic Obsolescence" looks correct. Social paranoia from lack of trust from unprecedented data flow looks a lot like the political climate we have today. Globalization also looks like the world of today. Even having organized criminals in government sounds like today. ;-) The hacking of "Delphi Pools" seem a lot like the hacking that is currently in financial markets. Even the over specialization seems correct.
So why is this book ignored? It doesn't even have an audible book yet. I get the impression that John Brunner was not liked by the Sci Fi community.
If Ann Rand wrote the sequel to Orwells 1984 on peyote while Hunter S Thomson screamed obscenities at a nonstop Mod-Squad marathon on the television across the room, this is the story that would result. I feel vaguely that it should concern me that I enjoyed it, but it does not.
"The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner is a story that is quite simply stunning and remarkable. Prescient, erudite, intense, all to real, and disturbing. With similarities to "Catch Me If You Can" and Orwell's "1984" this story will grab you with its eclectic verbiage, emotion, and prophetic storyline. The writing style is fluid, the atmospheric backdrops stunning, the science both encouraging and unsettling. Technology run amok...this is a must read for all futurists and fans of the science fiction genre. 4 stars!!!!
I have LOVED this book for at LEAST 20 years. Maybe longer. In fact, I think it's maybe 30 years. And, if you're not too picky about how it comes off a little "out of date" in the terms it uses, the book will not only seem relevant to present days but will seem eerily prescient. Of special note is his use of an orbital term to describe a metaphor about slowing down to speed up. The phrase "See you later, accelerator." will be forever etched in my mind.
P.S. It's pretty cheap on as well
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. One man has found a way to fight the system, to hide who he is by altering his identity, and makes multiple attempts to change the system for the better. His backstory is filled in as the book progresses, how he came to be who he is and why he is able to do the things he is able to do.
Some of the writing is a bit ham-handed (I don't think Brunner displays a deft hand when it comes to interpersonal relationships), but the more general over-arching themes of government-corporate partnership, social stratification, global surveillance, and cultural oppressiveness are well fleshed out carry the story. If you enjoy cyberpunk or dystopian future stories, it's worth a read.
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