The Dreaming Earth

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, [author_link_683] (with [author_link_534] and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and [author_link_682].