Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner - 2021 Tor Essentials Paperback

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art/design: Jamie Stafford-Hill Blurb: “"This is a great science fiction novel that only a great science fiction writer could create.... The unique product of a daring and prolonged smash-and-grab raid of the imagination, a planet-sized jackdaw-nest made of straw, barbed wire, and emeralds."—from the foreword by Bruce Sterling Originally published in 1968, Stand on Zanzibar was a breakthrough in science fiction storytelling technique, and a prophetic look at a dystopian 2010 that remains compelling today. Corporations have usurped democracy, ubiquitous information technology mediates human relationships, mass-marketed psychosomatic drugs keep billions docile, and genetic engineering is routine. Universal in reach, the world system is out of control, and we are all its victims... and its creator. "Science fiction is not about predicting the future; it's about elucidating the present and the past. Brunner's 1968 nightma