If you can get over the datedness and West-Wing-style fictional place names, /Stand on Zanzibar/ is incredible. It's a tight bundle of late-1960s anxieties about crowding, information overload, overpopulation, and computerization. Brunner uses some of Dos Passos's literary techniques from the U.S.A. Trilogy, which helps to sell the the sense of social vertigo.

This is to say, I cosign the recommendation. It's a must-read, if only as primary source from which to view that generation's social and environmental nightmares. I regard Brunner as kind of a genius.