Back to the Hugos: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner | Sam Jordison | Books | guardian.co.uk

Back to the Hugos: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner | Sam Jordison | Books | guardian.co.uk: "Apparently when Brunner was young it was thought that if everybody in the world were to stand shoulder-to-shoulder they would take up an area the size of the Isle of Wight. Looking at population growth figures, Brunner postulated that by 2010 the same trick would necessitate an island the size of Zanzibar. Hence the title. He also suggests that the resultant over-crowding would necessitate severe eugenic controls – and all the social problems that you might expect when a large percentage of the population are forcibly prevented from breeding, everybody else is limited in the number of offspring they can produce and nobody can have a house of their own because there isn't enough room."