Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner

Cocytus Press, Jun 1, 2010 - Fiction - 560 pages

This dystopian look at the future, one of the most bleak in all of science fiction, is now in a new edition with full-page, full-color designs by Jacob McMurray. Disturbing and unconventional, this is an important work in science fiction, and it won the Hugo Award in 1969.

Each copy of the book is also signed by John Brunner. Brunner passed away in 1985, but in the early 1980s he had worked on a project with Charles Brown of Locus. This project never came to be, but Brunner had signed a few hundred sheets for it.

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Review: Stand on Zanzibar

User Review  - Stephen Thomas - Goodreads

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND I've known of this book for years and have been meaning to read it for as long. And I really wanted to rave about it. It's a classic, after all, so it ought to be good. Well, it is ...

Review: Stand on Zanzibar

User Review  - Benjamin - Goodreads

This dystopia from 1967 feels very 1967... the "experimental" bits that interrupt the narrative and are labeled things like "tracking with close ups" really bugged me at first, but some of them are ...

About the author

John Brunner (1934-1995) was a prolific and highly respected writer of science fiction. Kim Stanley Roibnson (b. 1952) is an American science fiction writer, best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work discusses ecological and sociological themes regularly. Jacob McMurray is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Seattle, Washington. He is also a curator at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stand on Zanzibar
• Author: John Brunner
• Illustrated by: Jacob McMurray
• Contributor: Kim Stanley Robinson
• Publisher: Cocytus Press, 2010
• ISBN: 193361854X, 9781933618548
• Length: 560 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / General