Description
There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st-century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ... all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style.
Moving, sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a real mind stretcher - and yet beautifully orchestrated to give a vivid picture of the whole.
Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created a future world as real as this morning's newspaper... With a new introduction by Ken MacLeod.
About the Author
John Brunner was a prolific British SF writer. In 1951, he published his first novel, GALACTIC STORM, at the age of just 17, and went on to write dozens of novels under his own and various house names until his death in 1995 at the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the HUGO AWARD and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD for STAND ON ZANZIBAR (a regular contender for the 'best SF novel of all time') and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD for THE JAGGED ORBIT.
For more information see www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brunner_john
Reviews
It's time for a new generation to read itAn enormously ambitious novel ... still one of the mightiest chunks of 'future reality' which any SF writer has given us to chew over - SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELSTakes your breath away. It is beyond detailed quibble - GALAXY SCIENCE FICTIONSTAND ON ZANZIBAR is a brilliant and dangerous book - AMAZING STORIES
Awards
Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1970 (UK). Short-listed for Nebula Award 1969 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781473206373
Author John Brunner
Format Paperback
Page Count 672
Imprint Gateway
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Series S.F. Masterworks
Weight(grams) 528g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 44mm
