The Stardroppers

The Stardroppers
Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author	John Brunner
Cover artist	Jack Gaughan
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	DAW Books
Publication date	1972
Media type	Print (Paperback)

The Stardroppers is a science fiction novel by British writer John Brunner. It was originally published at novella-length in 1962 as Listen, the Stars, in Analog and then as part of an Ace Double in 1963; in 1972 the revised, novel-length form was published by DAW Books.

Plot introduction

The Stardroppers is about an undercover United Nations agent investigating a new fad, "stardropping", whereby physics-violating equipment is used to listen to sounds believed to be alien or paranormal signals. Superficially a harmless but expensive hobby, stardropping reigns in a fanaticism resembling addiction, where some users assemble in semi-social communes and spend all of their money on increasingly improved equipment. The fad gains an additional aspect of risk when users begin disappearing into thin air, in cases of increasing profile and witnessing.

Reception

Lester del Rey characterized the novel as "a good adventure story [but] not of one Brunner's stronger literary efforts."^[1]

References

↑ "Reading Room", If, April 1973, p.167

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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