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Stand on Zanzibar
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Stand on Zanzibar (1968) (edit title/settings)

by John Brunner (Author) (edit contributors)

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Donald Hogan was a mild-mannered student, a dilettante intellectual, at least that's what everyone was supposed to think he was.

But Donald knew otherwise.

He knew he was a spy.

But what Donald didn't know was that in a world overpopulated by the billions--in a society... read more

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Stock cue SOUND: "Presenting SCANALYZER, Engrelay Satelserv's unique thrice-per-day study of the big big scene, the INdepth INdependent INmediate INterface between you and your world!"

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Part I: Context
(0) The Inner 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) Bull Fight
(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 Sponsor

Part II: 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

Part III: 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

Part IV: Continuity
(1) The Guilt-Edged Security
(2) The Dead Hand of the Past
(3) After One Decade
(4) Roomie Nation
(5) Hear Fear
(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) The 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
(42) And Say Which Seed Will Grow

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This is book 15 of 70 in Science Fiction Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by The Demolished Man, and followed by The Dispossessed.

This is book 13 of 40 in SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by The Dream Master, and followed by A Canticle for Leibowitz.

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  1. John Brunner (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1968
ISBN: 0-09-919110-5
Page Count: 582

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