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John Kilian Houston Brunner ( September 24 , 1934 – August 26 , 1995 ) was a prolific British author of Science Fiction Novel s and stories. He was born at Preston Crowmarsh in Oxfordshire , and went to school at Cheltenham . He wrote his first novel, '' Galactic Storm '', at 17, under the name of Gill Hunt, but did not write full time until 1958 . He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955 , and married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on 1958-07-12 . At first writing conventional Space Opera , he later began to experiment with the novel form. His 1968 novel '' Stand On Zanzibar '' won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and is now considered a classic of the genre. '' The Jagged Orbit '' won the British SF Award in 1971 . His novel '' The Sheep Look Up '' ( 1972 ) was a prophetic warning of ecological disaster. Brunner's best-known work is perhaps 1975 's proto- Cyberpunk '' The Shockwave Rider '', in which he coined the term " Worm ", used to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network. His Pen Name s include: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, and Keith Woodcott. His health began to decline in the 1980s , and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986 . He remarried, to Li Yi Tan , on September 27 , 1991 . Brunner died of a Stroke in Glasgow , Scotland on August 25 , 1995 , while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there. BOOKS 1950s
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