The Crucible of Time

The Crucible of Time is a fix-up science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in 1983.

The Crucible of Time
First edition
Author	John Brunner
Cover artist	Don Dixon
Language	English
Series	Time[1]
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
Followed by	The Tides of Time

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. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
"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

Works by John Brunner
SF&F Novels	Galactic Storm (1951) Threshold of Eternity (1959) The 100th Millennium (1959) Echo in the Skull (1959) The World Swappers (1959) The Brink (1959) Slavers of Space (1960) The Skynappers (1960) The Atlantic Abomination (1960) Sanctuary in the Sky (1960) I Speak for Earth (1961) Meeting at Infinity (1961) Secret Agent of Terra (1962) The Super Barbarians (1962) The Ladder in the Sky (1962) The Dreaming Earth (1963) The Psionic Menace (1963) Listen! The Stars! (1963) The Astronauts Must Not Land (1963) The Space-Time Juggler (1963) Castaways' World (1963) The Rites of Ohe (1963) To Conquer Chaos (1964) Endless Shadow (1964) The Whole Man (1964) The Martian Sphinx (1965) Enigma from Tantalus (1965) The Repairmen of Cyclops (1965) The Altar on Asconel (1965) The Day of the Star Cities (1965) The Long Result (1965) The Squares of the City (1965) A Planet of Your Own (1966) The Productions of Time (1967) Born Under Mars (1967) Quicksand (1967) Bedlam Planet (1968) Stand on Zanzibar Doubleday (1968), (1969) The Evil That Men Do (1969) Double, Double (1969) The Jagged Orbit (1969) Timescoop (1969) The Gaudy Shadows (1970) The Wrong End of Time (1971) The Dramaturges of Yan (1972) The Sheep Look Up (1972) The Stone That Never Came Down (1973) Total Eclipse (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	A Plague on Both Your Causes (1969) Good Men Do Nothing (1971) Honky in the Woodpile (1971)
Collections	No Future in It (1962) Times Without Number (1962) Now Then! (1965) No Other Gods But Me (1966) Out of My Mind (1967) Not Before Time (1968) The Traveler in Black (1971) From This Day Forward (1972), DAW 72 (1973) Entry to Elsewhen (1972) Time-Jump (1973) The Book of John Brunner (1976) Interstellar Empire (1976) Foreign Constellations (1980) The Best of John Brunner (1988) Victims of the Nova (1989) The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories (2013)
Poetry	Life in an Explosive Forming Press (1970) Trip: A Sequence of Poems Through the USA (1971) A Hastily Thrown Together Bit of Zork (1974) Tomorrow May Be Even Worse (1978) A New Settlement of Old Scores (1983)
Nongenre	The Crutch of Memory (1964) Wear the Butcher's Medal (1965) Black Is the Color (1969) The Devil's Work (1970) The Great Steamboat Race (1983) The Days of March (1988)

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