Stand on Zanzibar

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Brunner was born in 1934. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was published in 1951 under the house name of Gill Hunt. In 1953 he sold his first story to Astounding Science Fiction as John Loxmith. With the sale of Threshold of Eternity (1959) and The Hundredth Millennium (1959) to Ace Books in the United States, he took up writing full time both under his own name and as Keith Woodcott. During the next six years he managed to write an astonishing twenty-seven novels for Ace along with work for other publishers. As the 1960s progressed, Brunner’s stories became more ambitious and experimental, culminating in Stand on Zanzibar in 1968. This was to win the Hugo Award in 1968, the British Science Fiction Award in 1970, and the French Prix Apollo in 1973. His next three major novels, The Jagged Orbit (1969), The Sheep Look Up (1972), and The Shockwave Rider (1975), explored different dystopian futures, making the four books a series of sorts. During the 1970s his health suffered and this slowed down his output subsequently. He died in 1995 while attending the World Science Fiction Convention at Glasgow.