The Crucible of Time

The Crucible of Time
	First edition
Author	John Brunner
Cover artist	Don Dixon
Language	English
Series	Time
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Rey/Ballantine
Publication date	Sep 1983
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	288 pp
ISBN	0-345-31224-4
Dewey Decimal	823' .914
LC Class	PR6052.R8C78
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The Crucible of Time is a fix-up science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in 1983.

Serials[]

Parts 1 and 2 appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "The Fire is Lit" (Sep 1982) and "Fusing and Refusing" (Jan 1983).

Plot[]

The novel deals with the efforts of an alien species to escape their homeworld, whose system is passing through a cloud of interstellar debris, resulting in a high rate of in-falling matter. The species' unique biology and their biological technology complicate matters.

Awards[]

Locus Award 1984, Best SF Novel (13th place)^[2]

References[]

^ "Time". Scifan.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2002. Retrieved 24 September 2010.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "1984 Locus Poll Award". ISFDB Bibliographic database. Retrieved 21 September 2010.

External links[]

The Crucible of Time title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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[1] "Time". Scifan.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2002. Retrieved 24 September 2010.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[2] "1984 Locus Poll Award". ISFDB Bibliographic database. Retrieved 21 September 2010.

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v t Works by John Brunner
SF&F Novels	(1951) (1959) (1959) Echo in the Skull (1959) The World Swappers (1959) (1959) Slavers of Space (1960) (1960) (1960) (1960) (1961) (1961) Secret Agent of Terra (1962) The Super Barbarians (1962) (1962) (1963) (1963) Listen! The Stars! (1963) The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963) (1963) (1963) (1963) To Conquer Chaos (1964) Endless Shadow (1964) The Whole Man (1964) The Martian Sphinx (1965) (1965) (1965) (1965) (1965) The Long Result (1965) The Squares of the City (1965) (1966) The Productions of Time (1967) (1967) (1967) (1968) Stand on Zanzibar Doubleday (1968), (1969) (1969) Double, Double (1969) The Jagged Orbit (1969) Timescoop (1969) (1970) (1971) (1972) The Sheep Look Up (1972) (1973) (1974) Web of Everywhere (1974) The Shockwave Rider (1975) The Infinitive of Go (1980) Players at the Game of People (1980) The Crucible of Time (1983) The Tides of Time (1984) Children of the Thunder (1989) A Maze of Stars (1991) Muddle Earth (1993)
Spy	(1969) (1971) (1971)
Collections	(1962) Times Without Number (1962) (1965) (1966) (1967) Not Before Time (1968) The Traveler in Black (1971) From This Day Forward (1972), DAW 72 (1973) Entry to Elsewhen (1972) (1973) (1976) (1976) (1980) The Best of John Brunner (1988) (1989) (2013)
Poetry	(1970) (1971) (1974) (1978) (1983)
Nongenre	(1964) (1965) (1969) The Devil's Work (1970) (1983) (1988)