Stand on Zanzibar Author:John Brunner 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 age of acceleratubes, Moonbase Zero, intelligent Computers, mass marketed psychedelics, politics by assassination, scientists who burn ... more »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...« less