Stand on Zanzibar
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 2010, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.
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John Brunner
John Kilian Houston Brunner (1934–1995) was a prolific British science fiction author.
He was perhaps the first science fiction author to predict the Internet and coined the term "worm" to descibe computer viruses.
John Brunner used several pen names: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt (with E. C. Tubb and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott.
Club of Rome Quartet
"Club of Rome Quartet" was a name given to a series of novels by John Brunner due to their thematic connection to the concerns raised by the actual Club of Rome in the 1972 report, The Limits to Growth, which detailed the consequences of unchecked economic growth on a finite planet
Club of Rome Quartet consists of 4 total books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
