Shockwave Rider

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no secrets from the system. Brunner illustrates this as a
reality that is not necessarily very desirable. He plants
a character, Nickie Haflinger, onto the scene. As with
many books we can look at this character and see the
author within. Haflinger is a prodigy whose talents allow
him to switch identities with a simple phone call. By the
advanced technology and the ingenuity that is completely
Haflinger’s, we see that the author is not one to be
content with the realities that may be a possibility in
the future of technology.
Brunner clearly illustrates, by the previous
description of Haflinger, that technology and the advances
within that field, are incredibly beneficial, or they can
be. but he is clearly unhappy with the way things have
turned out due to the controlling nature of the
governments. This is further illustrated in the fact that
Brunner’s hero is a young man who is bent on changing the
world. He struggles to evade the officials and uses ...

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does the freedom lie? Or if those
choices, and their end result, can be easily assumed. If a
society is so intricately interconnected, almost to the
point where there is no individuality whatsoever, what
happens when one man or woman stands apart from the crowd?
We know full well how such individuals have been treated
in a society where we claim to embrace the unique and free
minded individual. But to envision such an individual in a
place and time when nearly everyone was essentially
identical, brings the reader to a position where the truth
of such a future is quite stifling and evident. Anyone
with any sense would not like to exist in such a world.
Brunner is ...

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