The Productions of Time is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner

John Brunner (novelist)

John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year...

and first published in 1967 by New American Library.

Plot summary

The plot follows Murray Douglas as he joins a theatre production with a group of dysfunctional actors. The play is an avant-garde one where the actors make up the script during rehearsal, and rehearsals take place in an isolated country house. It emerges that the author is feeding each participant's vices, in service of the prurient interests of decadent time travellers.