Stand on Zanzibar

✍ Scribed by John Brunner

• Publisher: Macmillan;Orb
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 414 KB
• Edition: 1st Orb ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"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."--Page 4 of cover.;Continuity -- (1). The guilt-edged security -- (2). The dead hand of the past -- (3). After one decade -- (4). Roomie nation -- (5). Hear hear -- (6). Auction Block For me -- (7). Arms and idleness -- (8). The Camel's Back -- (9). Divided Against Itself -- (10). Due Process -- (11). The sound of falling rock -- (12). It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button -- (13). Multiply by a million -- (14). The right man for the job -- (15). Do not pass go, do not collect -- (16). The revised version -- (17). Timescales -- (18). The walls of troy -- (19). Semper aliquid Novi -- (20). The shadow of Grandfather Loa -- (21). More haste -- (22). The price of admission -- (23). He stuck in his thumb -- (24). This scene not shifted -- (25). Daddy of them all -- (26). Here comes a chopper -- (27). Manscape -- (28). From here on down it's uphill all the way -- (29). I beg to report -- (30). Turn her on and let her roll -- (31). Groundwork -- (32). First with the news -- (33). Got it and gone -- (34). There lives more faith in honest doubt -- (35). To await collection -- (36). Makeshift -- (37). Storage -- (38). Not for sale but can be had on application -- (39). Better to be a volcano -- (40). Of the greatest significance -- (41). Sewn on with needle and thread.;The happening world -- (1). Read the directions -- (2). The soft cell -- (3). Domestica -- (4). Spoken like a man -- (5). Citizen Bacillus -- (6). Street seen -- (7). The state of the art -- (8). Be kind to your forfeited friends -- (9). Shambles -- (10). Sour grapes -- (11). How to -- (12). The general feeling -- (13). Resume -- (14). Recruiting posters -- (15). Equal and opposite -- (16). Obituary.;Context -- (0). The Innis mode -- (1). Scanalyze my name -- (2). Editorial slot -- (3). You have to push him over -- (4). The subject matter -- (5). The grand manor -- (6). One comes out where- -- (7). Bullfight -- (8). Isolation -- (9). Guncrit -- (10). The baby and the bathwater -- (11). Come outside and say that -- (12). The sociological counterpart of Cheyne-Stokes respiration -- (13). The old newspaper -- (14). Storm centre -- (15). Bred and born -- (16). Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere : Calypso -- (17). Feeling the overdraft -- (18). Zock -- (19). A free rendering of two national anthems -- (20). The pros and cons of a lunatic society -- (21). Letter -- (22). Mother and baby doing well? -- (23). To be avoided -- (24). One of many essentially identical printouts from Shalmaneser -- (25). A favourite story of Chad Mulligan's -- (26). To myself on the occasion of my twenty-first century -- (27). Study group reports -- (28). A message from our sponsors.;Tracking with closeups -- (1). Mr. President -- (2). Yonderboy -- (3). No you don't! -- (4). Masker aid -- (5). Sceneshifter -- (6). Which side am i on? -- (7). The too much strain -- (8). Ill wind -- (9). Poppyseed -- (10). Smotherlove -- (11). The Sealed Train -- (12). If You Can't Beat Them beaut them -- (13). The gooseberry bush -- (14). Light the touchpaper and retire -- (15). Our parents' feet were black -- (16). The messenger of the gospel of universal love -- (17). Brighter than a thousand men -- (18). In my young days -- (19). Small wants and those easily satisfied -- (20). The old lady under the juggernaut -- (21). The dry child -- (22). The climax of more than a lifetime of achievement -- (23). Begi and the oracle -- (24). No reason, purpose or justification -- (25). The man without convictions -- (26). All in due time -- (27). Recipe for a mucker -- (28). The slow way to die -- (29). While the balance of his mind was disturbed -- (30). Defense d'entrer -- (31). Unto us a child -- (32). The cool and detached view.