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Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner · 初版 1968 年
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为什么值得读
- 精准洞察人性且具极强预言性
- 被视为赛博朋克流派重要源头
- 深刻探讨人口过剩引发的危机
“Stand on Zanzibar 最初出版于 1968 年，在科幻叙事手法上实现了重大突破，对反乌托邦式 2010 年的先知式刻画在今天依然震撼人心。巨型企业篡夺了民主制度，无所不在的信息技术充当着人际关系的媒介，大众普及的心身药物让数十亿人顺从温驯，基因工程更是司空见惯。无远弗届的世界体系已然失控，而我们既是它的受害者……也是它的创造者。”——封底第 [4] 页。
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…版权日期，才意识到 Brunner 当时是在推演理查德·尼克松总统任期的未来走向。顺便说句题外话，是我一个人的错觉吗，还是 John Brunner 隔一本书就有一本写得挺烂？《The Sheep Look Up》很赞，《Stand on Zanzibar》也很棒，但他接着就写出了像《Children of the Thunder》这种大烂作——尽管它也预言了 Usenet、类似 UUCP 的电子邮件以及气候变化的世界。但这些设定都改变不了那本书烂透了的事实…
…copyright date, and realized Brunner was projecting Richard Nixon's presidency forward. Sort of unrelated, is it me or does every other John Brunner book kind of suck? The Sheep Look Up, is good, so is Stand on Zanzibar, but then Brunner wrote real stinkers like Children of the Thunder, which also predicts a world of Usenet, UUCP-like email, and climate change. None of thse things have anything to do with that book sucking…
…泽拉兹尼的《光明王》（Lord of Light）和《不朽》（This Immortal）都很神。菲利普·K·迪克的一些作品也很棒，不过人人都推荐他就是了。:) 差点忘了 John Brunner，去看看《Steel Beach》、《The Sheep Look Up》和《Stand on Zanzibar》吧。
…Zelazny's Lord of Light and This Immortal are both great. Some of Philip K. Dick's stuff is great, but everyone recommends him. :) almost forgot John Brunner, check out Steel Beach, The Sheep Look Up, and Stand on Zanzibar.
《The Shockwave Rider》属于 John Brunner 的近未来小说准系列之一。另外几部是《Stand on Zanzibar》（人口过剩）、《The Sheep Look Up》（生态灾难）以及《The Jagged Orbit》（种族冲突）。
The Shockwave Rider is part of a sort-of-series of near-future novels by John Brunner. The others are Stand on Zanzibar (overpopulation), The Sheep Look Up (ecological catastrophe) and The Jagged Orbit (interracial violence).
任何对赛博朋克起源感兴趣的人，可能也会想读读 John Brunner 在 1968 年出版的小说《Stand On Zanzibar》。
Anyone interested in the roots of cyberpunk might also be interested in John Brunner's 1968 novel *Stand On Zanzibar*.
…仅凭关于记忆的那点稍显可笑的细节去评判整本书，殊不知它在其他很多方面都极具前瞻性，甚至近乎预言。他似乎摸透了人性。在我看来，吉布森的世界和 Brunner 的《Stand on Zanzibar》是迄今为止最具“预言性”的科幻小说。
…judge the book on that one slightly laughable thing about memory when, in other ways, it was incredibly forward looking and almost prophetic. He seems to understand humans. Gibson's world and Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar are imo the most "prophetic" sf books written so far.
那里的问题可能在于，把那个点子扩写成长篇后，反倒不如最初的短篇那么惊艳了。在书单里我遗憾地发现漏掉了一位作者，那就是 John Brunner。《Stand on Zanzibar》、《The Sheep Look Up》和《Shockwave Rider》这几部里任何一本，按理都应该在这份书单里占有一席之地。
The problem there is maybe that the novel length treatment of the idea is not quite as amazing as the original short story. One author that I find sadly missing from the list is John Brunner. Each of "Stand on Zanzibar", "The Sheep Look Up", and "Shockwave Rider" would arguably deserve a place on this list.