- English Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
In CHILDREN OF THE THUNDER, Brunner creates another near-contemporary vision of a world gone awry and proposes a peculiarly disturbing and frightening solution. Starting separately, a small number of very smart and uniquely talented children, none more than fourteen years old, create lucrative designer drugs, kill a Marine commando in unarmed combat, run a sex-ring of chilling depravity.
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- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- John Brunner
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Orbit, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780747405375
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“The swimming pool was empty save for wind-blown litter.”
John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
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