……“菲利普·K·迪克的小说变成了电影，约翰·布鲁纳的小说变成了现实”。第一次读《赞吉巴尔之岛》（Stand on Zanzibar）时真觉得太震撼了，不过后来几年我最喜欢的布鲁纳小说变成了《城市广场》（Squares of the City）。它不像《赞吉巴尔》那么有科幻味，但妙在它是基于一场著名的国际象棋对局构思的，而且深入探讨了政治宣传的本质及其对政治机体的影响。而且说实话，要决定……
…"Philip K Dicks novels turn into movies, John Brunners novels turn into reality". Stand on Zanzibar was a real trip the first time i read it, though in later years my favorite Brunner novel has been Squares of the City. Its not as scifi-ey as Zanzibar, but it is interesting for being built on a famous chess game and for exploring the nature of propaganda and its influence on the body politic. And honestly, deciding…
There is even a book mentioned here a number of years ago - a particulae favorite of mine - that features this as a plot point: Squares of the City by John Brunner
…has written four outstanding classics: "Stand on Zanzibar", " The Shockwave Rider", "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Jagged Orbit", and one that was not quite in that league, but was great niche sf, " The Squares of the City". the rest is all what I term "minor sf" for want of a better term - I hesitate to call them potboilers, because some of them are very well written and entertaining, but they are the sort of book that…
…I consider those three, and "the shockwave rider" to be Brunner's four "major" novels. he's also written lots of books that are entertaining enough but nothing really outstanding, and one other, "the squares of the city" that is not on par with the big four but which is inventive and well written enough that I'd recommend it to any fans of his.
…his work was not recognized to the extent that it deserved. Without knowing much about Brunner's life, it's possible to infer that he simply lost his passion. On the other hand, between the first (The Squares of the City) and the last (The Jagged Orbit) of the books in his "golden period", he wrote 11 books that nobody talks about. As far as I can tell, his signal-to-noise ratio was higher than contemporary novelists…
……“菲利普·K·迪克的小说变成了电影，约翰·布鲁纳的小说变成了现实”。第一次读《赞吉巴尔之岛》（Stand on Zanzibar）时真觉得太震撼了，不过后来几年我最喜欢的布鲁纳小说变成了《城市广场》（Squares of the City）。它不像《赞吉巴尔》那么有科幻味，但妙在它是基于一场著名的国际象棋对局构思的，而且深入探讨了政治宣传的本质及其对政治机体的影响。而且说实话，要决定……
…"Philip K Dicks novels turn into movies, John Brunners novels turn into reality". Stand on Zanzibar was a real trip the first time i read it, though in later years my favorite Brunner novel has been Squares of the City. Its not as scifi-ey as Zanzibar, but it is interesting for being built on a famous chess game and for exploring the nature of propaganda and its influence on the body politic. And honestly, deciding…
甚至多年前这里就有人提到过一本书——我个人特别喜欢的一本——它把这个作为一个核心剧情点：约翰·布鲁纳的《城市广场》。
There is even a book mentioned here a number of years ago - a particulae favorite of mine - that features this as a plot point: Squares of the City by John Brunner
……写过四部杰出的经典之作：《赞吉巴尔之岛》、《冲击波骑士》（The Shockwave Rider）、《瞧，这群羊》（The Sheep Look Up）和《锯齿形轨道》（The Jagged Orbit）；还有一部虽说算不上同一个档次，但也是极佳的小众科幻：《城市广场》。剩下的作品我找不出更好的词，统称为“次要科幻”——我不太想把它们称为粗制滥造的商业快餐（potboilers），因为其中有些写得非常好也很有趣，但它们就是那种……
…has written four outstanding classics: "Stand on Zanzibar", " The Shockwave Rider", "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Jagged Orbit", and one that was not quite in that league, but was great niche sf, " The Squares of the City". the rest is all what I term "minor sf" for want of a better term - I hesitate to call them potboilers, because some of them are very well written and entertaining, but they are the sort of book that…
……我认为那三本，再加上《冲击波骑士》，是布鲁纳的“四大杰作”。他还写过很多书，虽然挺有娱乐性但并不算特别拔尖；另外还有一本《城市广场》，虽然比不上那四大名作，但构思巧妙、文笔扎实，足以让我向他的所有书迷推荐。
…I consider those three, and "the shockwave rider" to be Brunner's four "major" novels. he's also written lots of books that are entertaining enough but nothing really outstanding, and one other, "the squares of the city" that is not on par with the big four but which is inventive and well written enough that I'd recommend it to any fans of his.
……他的作品没有得到应有的认可。在不太了解布鲁纳生平的情况下，很容易推测他只是失去了热情。但另一方面，在他“黄金时期”的第一本（《城市广场》）和最后一本（《锯齿形轨道》）之间，他还写了11本无人提及的书。就我看来，他的信噪比（signal-to-noise ratio）还是要高于同代的当代小说家的……
…his work was not recognized to the extent that it deserved. Without knowing much about Brunner's life, it's possible to infer that he simply lost his passion. On the other hand, between the first (The Squares of the City) and the last (The Jagged Orbit) of the books in his "golden period", he wrote 11 books that nobody talks about. As far as I can tell, his signal-to-noise ratio was higher than contemporary novelists…