Description

There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st-century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes … all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style.

Moving, sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a real mind stretcher – and yet beautifully orchestrated to give a vivid picture of the whole.

Publisher Review

It's time for a new generation to read it An enormously ambitious novel ... still one of the mightiest chunks of 'future reality' which any SF writer has given us to chew over - SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS Takes your breath away. It is beyond detailed quibble - GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION STAND ON ZANZIBAR is a brilliant and dangerous book - AMAZING STORIES