The Whole Man

The Whole Man
Ballantine First Edition paperback cover
Author	John Brunner
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	188 pp

The Whole Man is a 1964 science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965. In the UK, it was published under the title Telepathist.

This novel is often considered a turning point in Brunner's career, a step up from the space operas he'd been turning out as Ace Doubles and pointing towards the richer, more complex books exemplified by Quicksand and Stand on Zanzibar.

The book is a fix-up novel based on three earlier stories:

"City of the Tiger" in Science Fantasy, December 1958
"The Whole Man" in Science Fantasy, April 1959
"Curative Telepath" in Fantastic Universe, December 1959

Plot summary

After an unspecified crisis in a near-future England where telepathy has been discovered, the authorities discover Gerald Howson, a physically deformed youth with greater telepathic power than has ever been seen before. The novel details Howson's struggles to come to grips with his power and his deformity.

References

Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 72. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

Book review at tor.com
Entry at the Internet Science 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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