Stand on Zanzibar
Language: English
Publisher: Orb Books
Published: Jan 2, 1971
Awards:
Hugo.Best Novel.Winner.1969
List Of Awards:
Hugo
Date Read:
Jan 1, 2009
Form:
Novel
Pages:
672
Read Status:
read
Shelves:
read
Book Details
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Description:
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering.