Stand On Zanzibar
$34.53
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2014
Summary
There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st-century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes … all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style.
Moving, sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a real mind stretcher - and yet beautifully orchestrated to give a vivid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473206373 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473206375 |
| Author: | John Brunner |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 44mm |
| Series: | S.F. MASTERWORKS |
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An enormously ambitious novel … still one of the mightiest chunks of ‘future reality’ which any SF writer has given us to chew over– SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS
It’s time for a new generation to read it
An enormously ambitious novel … still one of the mightiest chunks of ‘future reality’ which any SF writer has given us to chew over - SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELSTakes your breath away. It is beyond detailed quibble - GALAXY SCIENCE FICTIONSTAND ON ZANZIBAR is a brilliant and dangerous book - AMAZING STORIESAbout The Author
John Brunner
John Brunner was a prolific British SF writer. In 1951, he published his first novel, Galactic Storm, at the age of just 17, and went on to write dozens of novels under his own and various house names until his death in 1995 at the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the HUGO AWARD and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD for STAND ON ZANZIBAR (a regular contender for the ‘best SF novel of all time’) and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD for The Jagged Orbit.
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