Stand on Zanzibar

Stand on Zanzibar is a science fiction novel by the British writer John Brunner, published in 1968 and set in 2010.

The novel is built out of a large cast and a mixture of forms borrowed from the American trilogy of John Dos Passos: chapters that follow characters, chapters that cut between scenes as though a camera were moving, and sections of news, advertising and the chatter of the period. Its subject is overpopulation and what a crowded, medicated, genetically engineered world does to the people in it. House is promoted into a scheme to develop a small African country, and Hogan is given an assignment that requires him to become somebody else, and the two of them discover that the corporations and the intelligence services are playing the same game. Brunner's future is loud and chemically managed, and much of the book's force comes from how ordinary its characters find it.

It won the Hugo Award in 1969 and is one of the novels that defined the New Wave of science fiction.