Stand on Zanzibar

  • Written by John Brunner
  • ISBN: 9781933618548
  • Format: Hardcover, 556pp
  • Publish Date: October 1, 2009
  • Dimensions: Unknown Dimensions
  • Original Price: US$225
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Publication Type: Novel
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About
John Brunner (1934-1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA award in 1970. E served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955.

John Brunner (1934-1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955. His health began to decline in the 1980s, and worsened with the death of his wife Marjorie in 1986. It also won the BSFA award the same year.

This dystopian look at the future, one of the most bleak, yet challenging and unconventional, in all of science fiction. In addition, there is a lengthy article from John Brunner. This is an important work in science fiction, and it won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1969.

However, in the early 1980s, he had worked on a project with the late Charles Brown of Locus. This project never came to be, but Brunner had signed a few hundred sheets for the project.


Edition Details
  • Limited to 300 copies, each signed by John Brunner and Kim Stanley Robinson.
  • Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson.
  • Photographs of John Brunner.
  • Artwork and design by Jacaob McMurray.
  • Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Stand on Zanzibar
  • Childless Couples and Delinquent Children

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