John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 25 August 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories.

[2] Brunner had an uneasy relationship with British new wave writers, who often considered him too American in his settings and themes.

He died of a heart attack in Glasgow on 25 August 1995, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there.

His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar exploits the fragmented organizational style that American writer John Dos Passos created for his U.S.A. trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of media popularised by Canadian academic Marshall McLuhan, a major cultural figure of the period.

[1] In addition to his fiction, Brunner wrote poetry and published many unpaid articles in a variety of venues, particularly fanzines.

[7] Brunner was an active member of the organisation Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and wrote the words to "The H-Bomb's Thunder", which was sung on the Aldermaston Marches.