Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner Extract

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SCANALYZE MY NAME

Stock cue SOUND: Presenting SCANALYZER,Engrelay Satelservs unique thrice-per-day study of thebig big scene, the INdepth INdependent INmediate

Nterface between you and your world!Stock cue VISUAL: cliptage, splitscreen, cut ibridge-melder, Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere depthunder today MAMP, Mid-Atlantic Mining Project),paceover (today freefly-suiting), transiting (toda

Simplon Acceleratube), digging (today as every dayhomimage with autoshout).

Autoshout cue: Its happening its happening!SCANALYZER SCANALYZER SCANALYZER

SCANALYZER SCANALYZER SCANALYZER Stock cue VISUAL: cliptage, wholescreen, plane

Earth turning jerk-jerk-jerk and holding meridians foGMT, EST, PCT, Pacific Conflict Zone Time.

Live cue SOUND: And its six poppa-momma for


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he happening people keeping it straight and steady ohat old Greenwich Mean Timehow mean can timeget, you tell me, hm? Zee for zero, bee for base,ounting down to one after ess ee ekssorreeess

EYE eks! We know whats happening happeninHAPPENING but that piece of the big big scene istrictly up to you, Mr. and Mrs. Everywhereor Mr.

and Miss, or Miss and Miss, or Mister and Mister, takeyour pick, hah-hah! Counting down to one after onepoppa-momma for that good old Eastern Standard tie-yum, one after ten anti-matter for the Pacific Coast, anor all of you fighting the good fight in lonely midocea

one after seven anti-matterPIPS!Clock cue: 5 1-sec. countdown pips on G in alt,minute signal on C in alt.

Plug cue: No time like the present for things tohappen in, no better way to keep time straight anteady than by the signal from General Technicsritonium clock, so accuright it serves to judge thetars.Script cue VISUAL: cliptage, splitscreen, excerpts

rom days news.


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Live cue SOUND: And no better way to keepabreastpardonthan with SCANALYZER!

Cut autoshout cue. (If they havent made it by thisime theyve switched off.) Plug cue: SCANALYZER is the one single, the

ONLY study of the news in depth thats processed byGeneral Technics famed computer Shalmaneser, whoees all, hears all, knows all save only that which YOU,

Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, wish to keep to yourselves.Script cue: the happening world.


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READ THE DIRECTIONS

For toDAY third of MAY twenty-TEN ManhatTENeports mild spring-type weather under the Fulle

Dome. Ditto on the General Technics Plaza.

But Shalmaneser is a Micryogenic computer bathen liquid helium and its cold in his vault.

DITTO Use it! The mental process involved is exactlanalogous to the bandwidth-saving technique employeor your phone. If youve seen the scene youve seehe scene and theres too much new information for yo

o waste time looking it over more than once. Useditto. Use it!

The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)

Less of a machine, more of a human being, bu


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Guinevere Steels real name is Dwiggins, but do yoblame her?

o your slax sufficiently convey your natural poweat a glance?

If youre wearing MasQ-Lines, the answers yes.Tired of half measures, we at MasQ-Line Corp.

have put the codpiece back where it belongs, to sayo the shiggies not kidder but codder.Sheena and Frank Potter are all packed ready to

eave for Puerto Rico because a green and a red lighare just lights to him.

Two participant breakins! Number one: sorree, friend,but nowe are not wrong to say Puerto Ricos

decision leaves a mere two havens for the dissident.sola does enjoy statehood, but the whole area of thePacific its islands occupy is under martial law and yodont get a pass for other than martial reasons. Thanksor asking us, though, its the way of the world, youre

my environment and I am yours, which is why we


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IMPOSSIBLE Means: 1 I wouldnt like it and when ihappens I wont approve; 2 I cant be bothered; 3 Goantbe bothered. Meaning 3 may perhaps be valid buhe others are 101% whaledreck.

The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)

Philip Peterson is twenty years old.

re you undermined by an old-style autoshout unit,one that needs constant reprogramming by hand its not to call you for items that were deschedule

ast week?GTs revolutionary new autoshout reprograms

tself!Sasha Peterson is Philips mother.

Turning to a related subject, rioting crowds todaytormed a Right Catholic church in Malm, Sweden,

while early mass was in progress. Casualty lists sugges

a death toll of over forty including the priest and man


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hildren. From his palace in Madrid Pope Eglantineaccused rival Pope Thomas of deliberately fomentinhis and other recent uprisings, a charge vigorousldenied by Vatican authorities.

Victor and Mary Whatmough were born in the sameountry and have been married twenty yearsshe fo

he second time, he for the third.

What you want to do when you see her in heorlon&-Morler Maxess costumelet

Is what she wants you to do when you see her inher Forlon&Morler Maxess costumelet

If she didnt, she wouldnt have put it onMaximal access is no exaggeration when you spel

t MAXESS Style illustrated is Courtesan But you should see TartWhat there is of it


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Elihu Masters is currently United States Ambassador tohe one-time British colony of Beninia.

Speaking of accusations, Dixierep Senator LowelKyte this anti-matter charged that dicties were noesponsible for nine-tenths of the felonies committed pe

anumsorree!per annum in his home state of Texas

and that Fed efforts to quell the problem were a failure.Privately, officials of the Nark Force have been heardo express concern at the way GTs new productTriptine is catching the dicties fancy.

Gerry Lindt is a draftee.

When we say general at GT we mean GENERAL.We offer the career of a lifetime to anyonenterested in astranautics, biology, chemistry,dynamics, eugenics, ferromagnetism, geology,hydraulics, industrial administration, jet propulsion,

kinetics, law, metallurgy, nucleonics, optics, patent


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ights, quarkology, robotics, synthesis,elecommunications, ultrasonics, vacuumechnology, work, X-rays, ylem, zoology No, we didnt miss out your speciality. We just

didnt have room for it in this ad.

Professor Doctor Sugaiguntung is head of the

Tectogenetics Department at Dedication University ihe Guided Socialist Democracy of Yatakang.

The incidence of muckers continues to maintain its

high: one in Outer Brooklyn yesterday accounted for 21victims before the fuzzy-wuzzies fused him, and anothes still at large in Evanston, Ill., with a total of eleven anhree injured. Across the sea in London a woma

mucker took out four as well as her own three-montbaby before a mind-present standerby clobbered her.Reports also from Rangoon, Lima and Auckland notcup the days toll to 69.


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Grace Rowley is seventy-seven and going a bit weak ihe head.

ere today and gone tomorrow isnt good enoughor us in this modern age. Here today and gone today is the pidgin we pluck.

The Right Honourable Zadkiel F. Obomi is thepresident of Beninia.

Westaway a piece or two, a stiff note was received iWashington this anti-matter from the Yatakangigovernment, claiming naval units working out of Isolahad trespassed into Yatakangs territorial waters.Officials will be polite, but its an open secreYatakangs hundred-island territory gives refuge all theime to Chinese aquabandits who sneak out from so-alled neutral ports and ambush U.S. patrols in mid-

ocean

Olive Almerio is the most successful baby-farmer i


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Puerto Rico.

You know the codders who keep one, two, three

higgies on the string. You know the shiggies whovery weekend blast off with a different codder.nvy them? Neednt.

Like any other human activity this one can beearned. We teach it, in courses tailored to your references.Mrs. Grundy Memorial Foundation (may she spin

n her grave).

Chad C. Mulligan was a sociologist. He gave it up.

Last weeks State Forest fires on the West Coast thataid low hundreds of square miles of valuable timbedestined for plastics, paper and organic chemicals wereoday officially attributed to sabotage by Forestr

Commissioner Wayne C. Charles. As yet it is uncertai


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o whom the guilt belongs: treacherous so-callepartisans among our own, or infiltrating reds.

ogajong is a revolutionary.

The word is EPTIFY. Dont look in the dictionary. Its too new for the dictionary. But youd better learn what it implies. EPTIFY.We do it to you.

Pierre and Jeannine Clodard are both the children oieds-noirs, unsurprisingly as they are brother anister.

Tornado warnings are out in the following states

eff Young is the man to go to anywhere west of the


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Rockies for the rather specialised goods he handlesimefuzes, explosives, thermite, strong acids anabotage bacteria.Turning to the gossipy side: once again the rumour

goes the rounds that the small independent Africaerritory of Beninia is in economic chaos. PresidenKout of Dahomaliain a speech at Bamako warned theRUNGs that if they attempted to exploit the situation alnecessary steps to counter

Henry Butcher is an enthusiastic proselytiser for thepanacea he believes in.

RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may notbe a better one than the erne the blocks live in but itl

be a sight more vivid. The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)

t is definite that the man known as Begi is not alive. O

he other hand, in at least one sense he isnt dead either.


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Also its noised that Burton Dent is bivving it again, ihat he was seen scorting former fuel supply Edgaewel into the particulate stages of this anti-matter.

Meantime, Pacific time, it looks like Fenella Koch hispouse of three years may be turning spousiness intopiciness with creamdream Zo Laigh. Like the slogaayswhy not equals why ker-not!

Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere are construct identities, thenew centurys equivalent of the Joneses, except thatwith them you dont have to keep up. You buy apersonalised TV with homimage attachment whicnsures that Mr. & Mrs. Every-where look, and talk,

and move like you.

HIPCRIME You committed one when you openedhis book. Keep it up. Its our only hope. The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)

Bennie Noakes sits in front of a set tuned to


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SCANALYZER orbiting on Triptine and saying over and over, Christ what an imagination Ive got!

And to close on, the Dept of Small Consolations.Some troubledome just figured out that if you allow fovery codder and shiggy and appleofmyeye a space

one foot by two you could stand us all on the sihundred forty square mile surface of the island oZanzibar. ToDAY third MAY twenty-TEN comeaGAIN!


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Copyright

A Gollancz eBook Copyright John Brunner 1968

All rights reserved.

The right of John Brunner to be identified as the author

of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with theCopyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in Great Britain in 1968

This eBook first published in 2013 by Gollancz

The Orion Publishing Group LtdOrion House5 Upper Saint Martins Lane

London, WC2H 9EAAn Hachette UK Company.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 0 575 10147 0All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and anyresemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.


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