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The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award.
The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award.


== Non-novel ==
In the book, Brunner refers to ''Stand on Zanzibar'' as a ''[[non-novel]]'':
 
In the book itself, Brunner refers to ''Stand on Zanzibar'' as a ''[[non-novel]]'':


<blockquote>This non-novel was brought to you by [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] using Spicers Plus Fabric Bond and Commercial Bank papers interleaved with Serillo carbons in a Smith Corona 250 electric typewriter fitted with a Kolok black-record ribbon.</blockquote>
<blockquote>This non-novel was brought to you by [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] using Spicers Plus Fabric Bond and Commercial Bank papers interleaved with Serillo carbons in a Smith Corona 250 electric typewriter fitted with a Kolok black-record ribbon.</blockquote>


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== In the News ==
 
* [[John Brunner (nonfiction)]]


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==
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* [[John Brunner]]
* [[John Brunner]]


== External links ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
 
* [[John Brunner (nonfiction)]]
 
External links:


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar Stand on Zanzibar] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar Stand on Zanzibar] @ Wikipedia

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Stand on Zanzibar (first edition cover).

Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopian New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1968.

The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award.

In the book, Brunner refers to Stand on Zanzibar as a non-novel:

This non-novel was brought to you by John Brunner using Spicers Plus Fabric Bond and Commercial Bank papers interleaved with Serillo carbons in a Smith Corona 250 electric typewriter fitted with a Kolok black-record ribbon.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Lee and Turner Color Projector used by John Brunner in many of his investigations.

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links: