Stand on Zanzibar (nonfiction)
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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.
Excerpts
From Here On Down It's Uphill All The Way
"Mr. Hogan, what is a man? Some of him is the message passed down the centuries in a chemical code - but very little. Take a human baby and let it grow among animals as a feral child. At puberty is that a human being, even though it can mate and breed its physical form? No, it’s a bad copy of the animal it was raised by! Listen, there is a point on a chromosome which I can touch - I think I can touch - and after fifty, a hundred failures, I can give a baby forebrain development which might be to ours as my orang-outangs to their mothers’; Who is going to teach that child? When four out of my five apes killed themselves because we could not teach them how to live except as humans - and they weren’t human!"
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In the News
1960: John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to pre-record Eisenhower's speech about the Military-industrial complex.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- How To (Stand on Zanzibar) (nonfiction)
- John Brunner (nonfiction)
- John Brunner on Hatred (nonfiction)
External links:
- Stand on Zanzibar @ Wikipedia