John Brunner

John Kilian Houston Brunner (1934–1995) was a prolific British science fiction author.

He was perhaps the first science fiction author to predict the Internet and coined the term "worm" to descibe computer viruses.

John Brunner used several pen names: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt (with E. C. Tubb and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott.