Stand on Zanzibar (nonfiction)

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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

File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1960: John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to pre-record Eisenhower's speech about the Military-industrial complex.

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