The Shockwave Rider

Name: The Shockwave Rider
Author: John Brunner

by John Brunner

Computer virus becomes conscious and hunted in a future of ubiquitous networking

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John Brunner

John Brunner was a British science fiction author whose Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up are landmark works of ecological and sociological SF. Stand on Zanzibar won the Hugo Award and predicted overpopulation, information overload, and mass shootings with alarming prescience. He was one of the most politically engaged authors in the genre.

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Stand on ZanzibarOverpopulation and cultural diversity collide in a near-future Earth fragmenting apart
The Sheep Look UpEcological collapse and pollution devastate civilization while power corrupts society
Total EclipseEclipse and catastrophe force humanity to confront its own extinction and renewal
The Jagged OrbitMultiple subcultures and power brokers clash in a fractured metropolitan dystopia