Stand on Zanzibar

By John Brunner, with a foreword by Bruce Sterling

The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award–winning novel from John Brunner, 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.

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 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.

Winner of the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the British Science Fiction Association Award.

Details: Paperback, 576 pages, published August 16, 2011 by Orb Books. ISBN: 9780765326782. Note: this title is out of print at our distributor — listing reflects available stock.