{"product_id":"stand-on-zanzibar-the-hugo-awardwinning-novel-9780765326782","title":"Stand on Zanzibar: The Hugo Award-Winning Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStand on Zanzibar: The Hugo Award-Winning Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Brunner, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780765326782.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling\n\nNorman 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.\n\nThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Orb Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665998110773,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765326787","price":76.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765326782_749be3fa-6de5-487b-a416-3bba134885e8.jpg?v=1782449785","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/stand-on-zanzibar-the-hugo-awardwinning-novel-9780765326782","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}