John Brunner

John Brunner was a renowned British novelist of science fiction, thriller, and fantasy novels. He has written a number of successful standalone novels in the science fiction/fantasy genre. Brunner has also written several spy fiction stories, short story collections, poetry, non-genre, pornography, and translation works.

The best place to start is the Max Curfew series, the earliest of John Brunner's multi-book series: it opens with A Plague On Both Your Causes (1969) and runs to 3 books across 1969–1971, ending with Honky in the Woodpile (1971).

John Brunner has 162 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1959 and 2020. 44 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Max Curfew series with 3 books — and 118 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. John Brunner's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Max Curfew (1969–1971, 3 books).

This guide splits John Brunner's 162 books into 4 named series and 118 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Max Curfew (3 books, 1969–1971); Thieves' World (19 books, 1979–2013); Isaac Asimov's Anthology (19 books, 1980–2001); Empire (3 books, 1963–1965).