The World Swappers
Encyclopedia
The World Swappers is a science fiction
novel
by John Brunner
. It was first published in the United States
in 1959, as one half of Ace Double D-391. The other half was Siege of the Unseen by A. E. van Vogt
.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
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...
. It was first published in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1959, as one half of Ace Double D-391. The other half was Siege of the Unseen by A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the "Golden Age" of the genre....
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