Stand on Zanzibar

There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes... all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style. Donald Hogan was a mild-mannered student, a dilettante intellectual—at least that's what everyone was supposed to think he was. But Donald knew otherwise. He knew he was a spy. But what Donald didn't know was that in a world overpopulated by the billions—in a society squeezed into hive-living madness by megabrain computers, mass-marketed psychedelics, and eugenics—where everyone was struggling for life—he himself was programmed for death!