“The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas the exterminator couldn't kill and rats that scrabbled in the walls and mice who left droppings like a… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Take stock, citizen bacillus, Now that there are so many billions of you, Bleeding through your opened veins, Into your bathtub, or into the… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“True, you’re not a slave. You’re worse off than that by a long, long way. You’re a predatory beast shut up in a cage… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.” — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better. — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas the exterminator… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune out of… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
