The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of now, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.
Stand on Zanzibar: The Hugo Award-Winning Novel
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Author: Brunner, John
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780765326782
Details:
Author: Brunner, John
Brand: Orb Books
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 576
Release Date: 16-08-2011
Part Number: 9780765326782
Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780765326782
