A very worthwhile and engaging listen here on John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar (1968), though I'm surprised by the view that it is "a relatively easy book to get your head around"!
Episode 52! @danhartland.bsky.social returns for a discussion of John Brunner's cynical yet sympathetic STAND ON ZANZIBAR, what it's like to read it today, and how its failures of prescience might be the best thing about it:
Classic SF with Andy Johnson
Brunner’s prescient classic about overpopulation: is it about overpopulation? Was it prescient? And, for that matter: what does it mean to be a classic? Reviewer and editor Dan Hartland joins…
