John Brunner

With the rise of a corporation-sponsored government, pollution in American big cities has reached extreme levels and most (if not all) people's health has been affected in some way.

Human beings born and raised on the more than six hundred thousand stars in the vast Arm of Stars grow up unaware that they were put there by the Ship, the greatest feat of technology ever achieved.

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....

Howard the Duck takes an adventure into fear when he's plucked from Duckworld and finds himself on Earth, bill to proboscis with the melancholy muck-monster Man-Thing! Stuck here on a planet of hairless apes, the furious fowl forges a future for himself in , of all places, Cleveland. but the would-be Master of Quack Fu will have his wings full hanging out with Spider-Man -- and waging "waaaugh" with madcap menaces like the Space Turnip, the Cookie...