“I love the place, and when they get love down to a bunch of factors you can analyse with a computer there’ll be nothing left of whatever makes it worth being human!”

—  John Brunner , book Stand on Zanzibar

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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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British author 1934–1995

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