Double,_Double_(Brunner_novel)

<i>Double, Double</i> (Brunner novel)

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 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]

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Summary

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

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

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


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