He was 'The Visitor' . . .
in a society revolutionised and troubled by a transportation device that let you walk through a door and be anywhere in the world - instantly.
He was 'The Visitor' . . .
at a time when unauthorised travel had caused the violent deaths of countless millions and the survivors were quaking in fear.
He was 'The Visitor' . . .
in a world where the invasion of privacy was the ultimate crime and where his obsession with visiting places where he had no right to be led him on a perilous adventure towards his own destruction.
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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.