About the Book: Stand On Zanzibar
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 picture of the whole.
About 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