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A very enjoyable book about a world out of control. The title refers to the idea that if you put all the people of the world on the island of Zanzibar, how many would get their feet wet? But what I found the most anachronistic was the sixties' hippy slang.
cytokine_storm · 4037 days ago · link ·
I think making predictions about the future is one of weakest parts of any sci-fi book. Stand on Zanzibar's real strength is that the issues it explores in the 1960's are arguably more relevant today. It presents a world seemingly always on the brink of Malthusian catastrophe that somehow never eventuates and all the insanity and madness inherent in an over-populated world.