Critical Reception
Algis Budrys declared that Stand on Zanzibar "takes your breath away," saying that the novel "put itself together seemingly without effort paints a picture of the immediate future as it will, Brunner convinces you, certainly be."
Thirty years after its initial publication, Greg Bear praised Stand On Zanzibar as a science fiction novel that, unusually, has not become dated since its original appearance: "It's not quite the future we imagined it to be, but it still reads as fresh as it did back in 1968, and that's an amazing accomplishment!"
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