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Was John Brunner’s life a tragedy? In some undeniable senses, yes. Possessed of enormous talents, but also an array of character faults, he became his own worst enemy and his later-era career suffered immensely in large part due to one poor decision to stake too much effort and hopes on a mainstream novel that took too long to write and then failed to sell (
The Great Steamboat Race). And atop those business setbacks, his health was poor and he died awfully young only age 60 in a cosmically apt but somewhat inglorious setting: the 1995 Worldcon.
But on the other hand, now that we have passed the 25th anniversary of his death, the personal details of his life the mortal horrors and human mundanities recede somewhat from the foreground of his biography, and the mountain ranges of his books remain. Thus it is with every writer, great and small, in their posthumous days. And so we can now see that Brunner’s life was, using this perspective, consequential and victorious, no ....

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