A classic fantasy series, Thieves' World® pioneered shared-world anthologies with epic worldbuilding, unforgettable characters, and nonstop action.Missing Game of Thrones ? Dare to "be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again" ( Book Riot ).The series's groundbreaking debut features sto...

Nebula Award Finalist: A "brilliantly crafted, engrossing" dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar ( The Guardian).In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable—unless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fightin...

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 burea...

Three visionary sci-fi novels from the Hugo Award–winning author whose dystopian prescience made him "one of the most important" (SF Site).British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being made available to new generations of readers. The very definition of timeless, Brunner's skillful and often frightening political and social commentary takes its place alo...

An alien race struggles to survive on an uninhabitable planet in this "impeccably detailed and beautifully thought out" novel from a Hugo Award winner ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).On a planet besieged with cosmic dust, where meteors of all sizes frequently hit, wiping out entire civilizations, a strange alien species struggles against extinction over the course of millennia. As their star grows hotter, melting ice caps and causing more earthquakes and...

A thought-provoking novel of a sentient spaceship's voyages, from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar."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 SiteAmong six hundred thousand stars visited by man, sixty thousand have planets hospitable to life, six thousand have developed life and six hundred have been settled, or seeded, with hu...

One journey. Six stories. Mind-blowing fantasy from the Hugo Award winner, "one of the most important science fiction authors" (SF Site).In The Compleat Traveller in Black, six linked tales, comprising one of Brunner's rare ventures into fantasy, relate the legend of a man with many names, who travels the world with a staff made of light and performs his eternal duty by bringing order to a world filled with chaos. What he dispenses is always asked for but n...

Nebula Award Finalist: Mankind has been reduced to slavery by technology and surveillance, in this near-future novel from the author of Stand on Zanzibar.In The Jagged Orbit, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create Stand on Zanzibar, takes a long, hard, disturbing, and hilarious look at the near and not-so-distant future. Catastrophic changes due to rampant drug abuse, uncontrolled violence, high-le...

Three fascinating sci-fi novels from the limitless imagination of the Hugo Award–winning author of the dystopian classic, Stand on Zanzibar.British novelist John Brunner remains "one of the most important science fiction authors . . . [who] held a mirror up to reflect our foibles" (SF Site). Brunner's skillful and often frightening political and social commentary takes its place alongside the most iconic works of Arthur C. Clarke, Aldous Huxley, Margaret A...

Hugo Award Finalist: "Story plotting holding much in common with chess . . . An exciting political thriller in the vein of Graham Greene" (Speculiction).In The Squares of the City, Brunner takes the moves of a classic championship chess game and uses them as the structure to build a novel about a revolution in a South American country obsessed with chess and dominated by a dictator who sees people as pawns in his game of power and survival. Intriguing premi...

"A world on the brink of war . . . Credible characters, suspenseful plotting and Brunner's broad vision make this humane novel a winner" ( Kirkus Reviews).The world is awash in civic decay, military coups and revolutionary governments, bands of believers ('Godheads') roaming the streets and turning plastic crosses into assault weapons. One scientist has discovered a new kind of viral drug, VC, which has the power to drastically alter the human mind. It coul...

The third Thieves' World® anthology—with stories by fantasy's favorite authors—curated by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Myth series.Times are hard, and the citizens of Sanctuary are not their greedy, immoral, grifting selves. But desperate times call for desperate measures, which means the bad guys are about to up their game. No one is safe from Sanctuary's evil charms—not the fish in the waters, not the prince's own Hell H...