Stand on Zanzibar: The Hugo Award-Winning Novel

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The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination both in the marketplace and politically---its about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy and hes about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. These two mens lives weave through one of science fictions most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos U.S.A. Trilogy Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers mass-marketed psychedelic drugs and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968 it speaks of now and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.