num_pages: 650
description: This is a giant of a book, in many senses of the word. It had to be, to give elbow-room for its subject matter. There are seven billion-plus of our species crowding the surface of twenty-first century Earth in an age of acceleratubes, Moonbase Zero, intelligent Computers, mass marketed psychedelics, politics by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes - hive-living hysteria that is reaching its bursting point all over the world. But a hive seldom knows about its madness until it's too late. Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created a future world as real as this morning's paper - moving, sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays. This book is a real mind-stretcher - yet beautifully orchestrated to give a vivid picture of the whole. Read it with care - move in with it - this may be where we're headed...
language: English
title: Stand on Zanzibar
titlecomplete: Stand on Zanzibar
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 16297
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Prix Tour-Apollo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books