Stand on Zanzibar
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005FIPL0G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
These two men's lives weave through one of science-fiction's most praised novels. 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 worldand kill him. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions and society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of our present time and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.. Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politi
A great and important read Dan Potter If the word prescient means anything to you fellow reader this is the book. Published in 1968 it was part of my teenage sci fi reading binge. The author magically [predicts almost all the major technological devices that are so ubiquitous in our daily lives. Computer processing cell phone tech video chat and the list goes on. This is a fine read. Quite fun with the style utilized by the author. Not exactly linear at all times. I guess even the s. Sheeting Skulbustin!! Pangur Ban I read this when it was first published - of course I was MUCH too young (lol) to understand much of it.Now? I am understanding too much of it. I began reading primarily because I remembered certain scenes; I now to my dismay am finding truisms I had been too young to grasp. I am also discovering events and trends and attitudes which were futuristic then, but are discernible - -or frightenly obvious - now.Well worth a careful read!!!. One of my rare re-reads I read this title when it first appeared in the late sixties. Couldn't remember that much of the details,but only the impact it made on me.Here it is seven years past the supposed date of 2010 and indeed we are in a mess.