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Stand on Zanzibar audiobook

  • By: John Brunner
  • Narrator: Erik Bergmann
  • Length: 21 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: August 02, 2011
  • Language: English
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Stand on Zanzibar Audiobook Summary

The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically—it’s about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he’s about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world…and kill him.

These two men’s lives weave through one of science fiction’s most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of now, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.

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Stand on Zanzibar Audiobook Narrator

Erik Bergmann is the narrator of Stand on Zanzibar audiobook that was written by John Brunner

In praising Erik Bergmann’s narration of Robert Ludlum’s The Moscow Vector, AudioFile magazine said, “Erik Bergmann skillfully infuses the myriad characters with distinct accents in this spine-tingling trek…Bergmann moves this captivating plot from the frying pan into the nuclear furnace.” Bergmann has also narrated books in The Justice League series as well as Stephen P. Kiernan’s The Curiosity, whose cast won an AudioFile Earphones Award.Bergmann has been performing since the age of ten, practicing mimicry and character voices since he could form a syllable. Making a living doing voice-over work in New York City, Erik can also be heard narrating the Area 51 and Justice League audiobook series, as well as the voice of Fred on the companion audiobook for the Warner Bros. feature film Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. He has also dabbled in television, making appearances on Saturday Night Live and Break a Leg and doing voiceover work for Random! Cartoons.

About the Author(s) of Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner is the author of Stand on Zanzibar

Stand on Zanzibar Full Details

Narrator Erik Bergmann
Length 21 hours 3 minutes
Author John Brunner
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date August 02, 2011
ISBN 9781427211132

Additional info

The publisher of the Stand on Zanzibar is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427211132.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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