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"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since."
-- Alvin Toffler
Author of Future Shock
He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code -- then he escaped.
Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.
He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!
Genre: Science Fiction
"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since."
-- Alvin Toffler
Author of Future Shock
He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code -- then he escaped.
Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.
He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!
Genre: Science Fiction
Used availability for John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider
Hardback Editions
August 1975 : UK Hardback
February 1975 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
January 2020 : UK Paperback
March 1995 : USA Paperback
October 1984 : USA Mass Market Paperback
January 1989 : USA Mass Market Paperback
Title: The Shockwave Rider
Author(s): John Brunner
ISBN: 0-345-00978-9 / 978-0-345-00978-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Availability: Amazon
May 1988 : UK Paperback
June 1981 : USA Mass Market Paperback
February 1978 : USA Mass Market Paperback
February 1977 : UK Paperback
February 1976 : USA Mass Market Paperback
Audio Editions
July 2020 : Audio CD
July 2020 : Audio CD
April 2020 : USA Audio edition
April 2020 : Australia Audio edition
April 2020 : Canada Audio edition
April 2020 : UK Audio edition
Kindle Editions
April 2014 : USA, Canada, UK Kindle edition
September 2011 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
September 2011 : Canada Kindle edition
Title: The Shockwave Rider (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Author(s): John Brunner
Publisher: Gateway
Availability: Amazon CA