“Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner’s magnificent novel that won the 1969 Hugo Award, is now available with an introduction by Bruce Sterling.
General Technics is one of the few all-powerful companies with a rising executive named Norman Niblock House. His work is propelling General Technics to the top of the global power structure, both commercially and politically—it is poised to annex a nation in Africa. He shares a room with a bookworm who appears embarrassed named Donald Hogan. However, Hogan is a spy and about to make a world-changing discovery in genetic engineering that will also endanger his life.
One of science fiction’s most well-regarded novels is intertwined with the lives of these two guys. Stand on Zanzibar, written in a style reminiscent of John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. Trilogy is a snapshot of a globe filled with many billions of people. Where god-like mega computers, widely available psychedelic substances, and routine applications of genetic engineering are squeezing humanity into hive-living insanity, although it was written in 1968, it is eerily prophetic and incredibly potent since it relates to the present.”
