John Brunner

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Host Age

  • by John Brunner
  • tag-4106 | New Worlds Science Fiction #43, January 1956

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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Times Without Numbers

  • by John Brunner
  • in Science Fiction Adventure (25, March 1962)

In an alternate Spanish-dominated 20th century, Don Miguel Navarro is a time traveler in the western world’s Society of Time who are locked in a time-travel cold war with the Confederacy of the East, not to mention their task of tracking down various time crimes.

I try to avoid major spoilers (stop reading now, if you wish), but the reason that Don Miguel ends up in a world without time travel is one that I thought of (long after Brunner) based on fixed-points in mathematics. That idea alone gives the story an extra star.

The original three stories appeared in three consecutive issues of Science Fiction Adventure, and they were later fixed up into a short novel that was subsequently expanded. It’s the expanded version that I read from the CU library.
It wasn’t only the embarrassing experience of being shown off around the hall by her—as it were, a real live time-traveller, exclamation point, in the same tone of voice as one would say, “A real live tiger!” That happened too often for members of the Society of Time not to have grown used to it; there were, after all, fewer than a thousand of them in the whole of the Empire.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Galactic Consumer Report No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Galactic Consumer Reports No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

The Productions of Time

  • by John Brunner
  • 2-part serial, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August and September 1966

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Quicksand


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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Timescoop


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Lostling

  • by John Brunner
  • in The Far Side of Time: Thirteen Original Stories, edited by Roger Elwood (Dodd, Mead, 1974)

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

The Crucible of Time


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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Novel

Muddle Earth


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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena