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1964 novel by John Brunner

The Whole Man
Ballantine First Edition paperback cover
Author	John Brunner
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1964
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	188 pp

The Whole Man is a 1964 science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965. In the UK, it was published under the title Telepathist.

This novel is often considered a turning point in Brunner's career, a step up from the space operas he'd been turning out as Ace Doubles and pointing towards the richer, more complex books exemplified by Quicksand and Stand on Zanzibar.

The book is a fix-up novel based on three earlier stories:

"City of the Tiger" in Science Fantasy, December 1958
"The Whole Man" in Science Fantasy, April 1959
"Curative Telepath" in Fantastic Universe, December 1959

Plot summary

After an unspecified crisis in a near-future England where telepathy has been discovered, the authorities discover Gerald Howson, a physically deformed youth with greater telepathic power than has ever been seen before. The novel details Howson's struggles to come to grips with his power and his deformity.

References

Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 72. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

Book review at tor.com
Entry at the Internet Science Fiction Database

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)

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)

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