Shockwave Rider By Brunner

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Shockwave Rider By Brunner

There are numerous books on the science fiction market, that deal with the
myriad of possibilities involving the technology of the future. John Brunner’s
book, “Shockwave Rider,” is one of the most popular, as well as one of the
most famous, books dealing with this issue. Brunner presents many different
realities to the reader, and they are all potentially very realistic in terms of
the current state of technology. For the most part, Brunner seems to illustrate
that technology, as it relates to the world wide datanet, is a good thing. This
is not to say that he does not illustrate it as a very negative reality in the
world he presents to the reader, but he does indicate that the world wide
datanet and technology has great potential to make the world a better place for
all concerned. In Brunner’s book we have a reality that is incredibly tense,
and almost plausible today. The space that the author deals with is filled with
endless bits of information (information overload to be more precise), corporate
domination, and it appears, just like many science fiction books that deal with
the planet earth in the future, everything is known about everyone. there are no
secrets from the system. Brunner illustrates this as a reality that is not
necessarily very desirable. He plants a character, Nickie Haflinger, onto the
scene. As with many books we can look at this character and see the author
within. Haflinger is a prodigy whose talents allow him to switch identities with
a simple phone call. By the advanced technology and the ingenuity that is
completely Haflinger’s, we see that the author is not one to be content with
the realities that may be a possibility in the future of technology. Brunner
clearly illustrates, by the previous description of Haflinger, that technology
and the advances within that field, are incredibly beneficial, or they can be.
but he is clearly unhappy with the way things have turned out due to the
controlling nature of the governments. This is further illustrated in the fact
that Brunner’s hero is a young man who is bent on changing the world. He
struggles to evade the officials and uses all skills available to him, whether
inherent skills or technological ones, to the best of his ability, to put an end
to the misuse of power that is so much a part of his world which involves the
entity of the world wide datanet. Perhaps, one of the most insightful parts of
the book comes in the first half, when Haflinger is exper...

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