Twenty years and more after reading Stand on Zanzibar for the first time, I was surprised at how vividly its opening had stayed with me. First up the extended epigraph, a quotation from McLuhan, a warning to the unwary about what Brunner is about to spring on his readers, unsuspecting as they may have been …
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Jun 16 2015
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Fabulous Ones, Science Fiction
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June 16, 2015
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