Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099191100
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0099191105
Label: Legend paperbacks
Manufacturer: Legend paperbacks
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: June 07, 1990
Publisher: Legend paperbacks
Studio: Legend paperbacks

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Thirty-year old predictions have a habit of going stale, but not John Brunner's startling panoramic view of the year 2010. Even where he got the future we almost inhabit wrong, he understood where things were oing--"Conincidence You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on"--and his world of Artificial Intelligence, gene-engineering, psychedelics, government-sponsored murder and brainwashing is frighteningly enough like our own. Constantly panning from a few individuals and their stories to the chatter of the media and sudden chunks of crucial text, Stand on Zanzibar was a ground-breaking novel in which Brunner broke wide open the stylistic and narrative conventions of SF, and set the agenda for the next decades. Packed with memorable characters--the computer Shalmaneser, the incestuous racist Clodard family, Presidents and newscasters--and sudden flashes of insight from rebel sociologist Chad Mulligan. "Rumour Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks live in but it'll be a sight more vivid." Stand on Zanzibar is a masterpiece of speculative sociological SF, which some have described as a nightmare vision and others as a possible world better than what we are likely to get. --Roz Kaveney




Rating: - Better? Than?
The thing with fortune tellers, is that people tend to remember the things they get right and forget what they get wrong. So it is with this book. Brunner certainly gets very near the mark with many of his predictions but is very wide of the mark with others.

However, don't read this book as a work of prediction. Take it for what it is - a story which is set some 30 years from when it was written and you'll probably find it a more worthwhile read.

I have to confess that ... Read More

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Rating: - The best example of a future dystopia!!
Stand on Zanzibar is a must-read for anyone who considers themselves knowledgeable and interested in published science fiction. Over 650 pages, John Brunner has created a masterpiece which through its unique style delivers a quite dangerous and relevant message. I am proud that I have read this and I am proud it sits on my bookshelf.

What makes the book so different is its meandering between a straight, plot-driven novel and snippets of ‘articles’ of either news events or a sociologist’s ... Read More

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Rating: - A dark future prophecy
Over-population threatens Earth, political struggles and conspiracy movements sprout, people are turning into terrorists out of pure boredom... TV does its best to keep people alienated in an artificial reality...

Written in Brunner's characteristic style, the book is witty, sarcastic and really really bitter.
If you're into dark humor and pessimistic bitter views of reality (as I am) this is the book to read.

One of the (undeservedly) forgotten great classics of SF.

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Rating: - Dated but still a great story
Im not a big fan of SF from the 50s and 60s, generally because I find it a bit to "worthy" and full of its own importance (that said the Dune series is one of my favourites!). I was given this book by my Dad who says its one of his favourites so I had a go. One of the most interesting things I found was to compare the predictions made in the book with what is atcually happening in the world today. Genetic Engineering, super computers, all powerfull corporations. We've got it all. The stuff that is missing like mobile ... Read More

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Rating: - Too Many Rats in a Cage
There was a brief period from the late sixties to the early seventies that saw a veritable explosion of new ideas and new methods of painting those ideas on the reader’s consciousness within the SF field. This book is one of the finer examples of both of those items, winning (quite appropriately) the Hugo award for 1969 (though I thought that Samuel Delany’s Nova was just as deserving that year).

Stylistically, this book is a mosaic, a patchwork of cross-cutting images, scenes, advertisements, ... Read More

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