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Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
Fiction & Sci-Fi

Stand on Zanzibar

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…rent to recommend them. Are they as good as Dune? Well, it's very hard to say _now_. Assuming humans still exist in 60 years, will they still read them like we read Dune 60 years from its publication? Maybe. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land won in 1961. I've read it, and I don't think it's aged very well. It's certainly not Dune. How many people are still reading the 1969 winner, John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar? I _have_ read it. It's good, but nowhere close to Dune. And how about 1978's winner, Gateway by Frederik Pohl? It's ... fine. It's not even in the same category as Dune, IMO. Dune is an outlier among _all_ winners. It's one of the best SF books of all time, with a voice that st…

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