Editing The Shockwave Rider (section)

==Reception==
[[Spider Robinson]] gave the novel a mixed review, saying that while "the book reads well&nbsp;..., [i]ndividual sections are often brilliant, [and] the message is incisive and timely", that "as a story it limps" and that many characters, including the main antagonists, "are cut from cardboard".<ref>{{cite magazine |url= http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?815889 |title=Bookshelf: Review of ''The Shockwave Rider'' by John Brunner |first=Spider |last=Robinson |author-link=Spider Robinson |magazine=[[Galaxy Science Fiction|Galaxy]] |date=June 1975 |pages=47–48 |via=ISFDb.org}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reviewer Gerald Jonas was even more critical, saying that while Brunner was attempting to write "slice-of-life" fiction about a future society, the result of his arbitrary choices about social details is that "the entire fictional edifice collapses like a house of cards."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Of Things to Come |first=Gerald |last=Jonas |magazine=[[The New York Times Book Review]] |date=20 July 1975}}</ref>