Stand On Zanzibar
$50.90
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2014
Summary
Earth in Overdrive: Stand on Zanzibar
There are over seven billion humans crowding 21st-century Earth. It’s an era defined by intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelics, political assassinations, and scientists appeasing volcanoes. Experience the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed with dazzling inventiveness.
Moving, sensory, and impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a mind-stretcher, beautifully orchestrated to paint a vi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473206373 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473206375 |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Author: | John Brunner |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 528g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 44mm |
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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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