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1988 collection of short stories by John Brunner

The Best of John Brunner
Cover of first edition
Author	John Brunner
Cover artist	Barclay Shaw
Language	English
Series	Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ballantine/Del Rey
Publication date	1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	xii, 288
ISBN	0-345-35307-2
Preceded by	The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

The Best of John Brunner is a collection of science fiction short stories by British author John Brunner. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine/Del Rey in November 1988 as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction.

Summary

The book contains seventeen short works of fiction by the author, together with an introduction by Joe Haldeman.

"Introduction: The Brunner Mosaic" (Joe Haldeman)
"The Totally Rich" (from Worlds of Tomorrow, Jun. 1963)
"The Last Lonely Man" (from New Worlds SF no. 142, May/Jun. 1964)
"Galactic Consumer Report No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines" (from Galaxy Magazine, Dec. 1965)
"Fair" (from New Worlds Science Fiction no. 45, Mar. 1956)
"Such Stuff" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jun. 1962)
"Galactic Consumer Report No. 2: Automatic Twin-Tube Wishing Machines" (from Galaxy Magazine, Jun. 1966)
"Tracking with Close-ups (21) and (23)" (excerpts from Stand on Zanzibar, 1968)
"X-Hero" (from Omni, Mar. 1980)
"No Future in It" (from Science Fantasy, Sep. 1955)
"Galactic Consumer Report No. 3: A Survey of the Membership" (from Galaxy Magazine, Dec. 1967)
"What Friends Are For" (from Fellowship of the Stars, 1974)
"The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug. 1977)
"Galactic Consumer Report No. 4: Thing-of-the-Month Clubs" (from Galaxy Magazine, Jan. 1969)
"The Man Who Saw the Thousand-Year Reich" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov. 1981)
"An Elixir for the Emperor" (from Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Nov. 1964)
"The Suicide of Man" (from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Jul./Aug. 1978)
"The Vitanuls" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul. 1967)

The book was reviewed by Tom Whitmore in Locus no. 334, November 1988.

The book placed thirteenth in the 1989 Locus Poll Award for Best Collection.

v t e Works by John Brunner
SF&F novels	Echo in the Skull (1959) The World Swappers (1959) Slavers of Space (1960) The Atlantic Abomination (1960) Secret Agent of Terra (1962) The Super Barbarians (1962) Listen! The Stars! (1963) The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963) To Conquer Chaos (1964) The Whole Man (1964) The Martian Sphinx (1965) The Long Result (1965) The Squares of the City (1965) The Productions of Time (1967) Stand on Zanzibar Doubleday (1968), (1969) Double, Double (1969) The Jagged Orbit (1969) The Sheep Look Up (1972) Web of Everywhere (1974) The Shockwave Rider (1975) The Infinitive of Go (1980) Players at the Game of People (1980) The Crucible of Time (1983) The Tides of Time (1984) Children of the Thunder (1989) A Maze of Stars (1991) Muddle Earth (1993)
Collections	Times Without Number (1962) Not Before Time (1968) The Traveler in Black (1971) Entry to Elsewhen (1972) The Best of John Brunner (1988)

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Collections

v t e Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction
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