The Shockwave Rider

The Shockwave Rider ( Original title: The Shockwave Rider) is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, which was published in 1975 and is set in a dystopian future.

Work

The criticism sees the novel as one of the first forerunner of the cyberpunk genre, in part, he is associated with the New Wave literature.

Alvin Toffler's book inspired by future shock, the novel shows an America of the 21st century, which is dominated by computer networks.

It is noteworthy that the protagonist starts cracking skills to escape the nets. In many details today's world is anticipated, for example, in coining the term worm for a program that perpetuates itself in a computer network itself or in the description of a computer network, similar or identical to the Internet, in time, however, far ahead of its actual institutionalization.

Quite a few services and effects of the Internet, about the possibility of online grief boxes, viruses and worms, or even the quick and "total " information dissemination are anticipated and described by Brunner directly or indirectly. As a model may have served around the concept of " global village " here associated with the global spread of television and travel discussion.

The U.S. television series The Pretender draws heavily on elements back from the shockwave rider.

Expenditure

• John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider. Harper & Row, 1975 ( first edition ) ISBN 0-06-010559-3.
• John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider. Heyne, 1979, ( German edition ) ISBN 3-453-30584-1.
• John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider. Heyne, 1992, ( special edition ) ISBN 3-453-04263-8.
• Marilyn Ferguson: The Aquarian Conspiracy. Earthscan, 1984, ISBN 3-426-04123-5, p 130 ( about Precipice ).

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Science fiction literature
• Novel, epic
• Dystopia
• John Brunner