Double, Double (Brunner novel)

1969 novel by John Brunner

For the 1949 novel by Ellery Queen, see Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel). For the 1989 novel by Michael Jan Friedman, see Double, Double (Star Trek novel).

Double, Double

First edition cover

Author| John Brunner
Language| English
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Ballantine Books

Publication date

| 1969
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (paperback)
Pages| 222
OCLC| 8427314

Double, Double is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, first published in the United States as an original paperback by Ballantine Books in 1969 and reprinted in 1979 as a Del Rey paperback. A hardcover edition was released in the British market in 1971 by Sidgwick & Jackson.[1]

## Summary

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Bruno and his band The Hermetic Tradition visit the North Kent coast where they plan to hold an open-air cliff-top concert. Events take an unusual turn when the band meet a fish capable of eating and doubling the things it finds.[2]

## Reception

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Spider Robinson dismissed the novel, saying "there just ain't all that much right with it. . . . It's a shame writers have to do this stuff to stay alive."[3]

## References

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1. ^ ISFDB bibliography
2. ^ "John Brunner". kent-maps.online. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
3. ^ "Galaxy Bookshelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1977, p.140.

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Works by John Brunner

SF&F novels|

* Echo in the Skull (1959)
* The World Swappers (1959)
* Slavers of Space (1960)
* The Atlantic Abomination (1960)
* Secret Agent of Terra (1962)
* The Super Barbarians (1962)
* Listen! The Stars! (1963)
* The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963)
* To Conquer Chaos (1964)
* The Whole Man (1964)
* The Martian Sphinx (1965)
* The Long Result (1965)
* The Squares of the City (1965)
* The Productions of Time (1967)
* Stand on Zanzibar Doubleday (1968), (1969)
* Double, Double (1969)
* The Jagged Orbit (1969)
* The Sheep Look Up (1972)
* Web of Everywhere (1974)
* The Shockwave Rider (1975)
* The Infinitive of Go (1980)
* Players at the Game of People (1980)
* The Crucible of Time (1983)
* The Tides of Time (1984)
* Children of the Thunder (1989)
* A Maze of Stars (1991)
* Muddle Earth (1993)

Collections|

* Times Without Number (1962)
* Not Before Time (1968)
* The Traveler in Black (1971)
* Entry to Elsewhen (1972)
* The Best of John Brunner (1988)

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