John Brunner

John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar isn’t the only vintage science fiction novel making waves this week.

John Brunnerin which a geodesic dome is said to cover the entire island of Manhattanand it floats on air due to the hot-air balloon tuller of the large air-mass under the dome and perhaps the dome's construction of lightweight materials

The Fuller Dome is referenced in the Hugo Award -winning novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunnerin which a geodesic dome is said to cover the entire island of Manhattanand it floats on air due to the hot-air balloon tuller of the large air-mass under the dome and perhaps the dome's construction of lightweight materials.

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; (1963),

Cat’s Cradle (1963), by Kurt Vonnegut; Stand on Zanzibar (1968), by John Brunner;

news blurbs, and rumors on something called “Scanalyzer of society in a postmodern narrative broken up by quotations from radical sociologist Chad Mulligan

In Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner describes the fragmentation of society in a postmodern narrative broken up by quotations from radical sociologist Chad Mulligan (who is rather like Marshall McLuhan), news blurbs, and rumors on something called “Scanalyzer.”

Brunner

Brunner was prolific, and wrote dozens of novels, but Brunner's reputation rests largely on the predictive strength of Brunner's so-called “Club of Rome quartet” and especially Stand on Zanzibar (1968) which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

a sci-fi novel that took place in 2010 called Stand on Zanzibar

In 1969 John Brunner wrote a sci-fi novel called Stand on Zanzibar that took place in 2010.

Jad Smith

In this first intensive review of Brunner's life and works, Jad Smith carefully demonstrates how Brunner's much-neglected early fiction laid the foundation for Jad Smith's classic Stand on Zanzibar and other major works such as The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider.

by Hugo Award winner

Stand on Zanzibar is written by Hugo Award winner and focuses on overpopulation consequences.

John Dos Passos

Stand on Zanzibar is written in a distinctive style also used by John Dos Passos in John Dos Passos's novel USA, which may yet make my top 10 in Zanzibar's own right.