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On a selfish note, at $12.5K we release a banger of an essay on world building, that I can't wait to share with you all!
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Amazing that SH is nearly halfway already. Thank you so much to all who’ve donated, can confirm it means a lot. 💜
In fact, another review has been unlocked: @notquitehydepark.bsky.social on @adamroberts.bsky.social’s Short History of Fantasy.
Important review of important book. (It’s how we roll.)
While the fund drive is one, we’re also still doing a regular issue this week. First review is a debut with us from Akumbu Uche, on Kill the Poet, Save the World! by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu.
“Whether you fall in with the geeks, the mystics, the revolutionaries, or the romantics” there’s a poem here.
From @williamshaw.bsky.social, a review of Dead Boys in Space, a "thoughtful" poetry collection in which the HIV/AIDS crisis is reimagined - and millions live differently.
"As the title suggests, this is a collection about grief, both for an individual and for a whole cohort of people."
Gautam Bhatia
Roberts describes a literary history that looks like a sturdy tree, sometimes a baobab and sometimes a banyan.
Another great episode, and it's years since I read SoZ, but the most striking thing to me is their critique of Brunner 'failing to see solutions'. I'm not saying they're wrong, but I think it's relatively rare to hear contemporary SF novels praised for offering solutions. Interesting disjunct.
Gotta say that @casella.bsky.social is making a very strong case for deserving a Hugo Award win. This is a really excellent podcast episode.
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It's always good to talk the talk with @casella.bsky.social, even when it's about something as sticky as Stand On Zanzibar.
I *think* we came out feeling it had been worth hacking away at it. We certainly covered a lot of ground in and around what is a troublesome book.
How well? You decide ...
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It is almost impossible to read the words Kill the Poet, Save the World!—the title of the debut poetry collection by Nigerian author Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu—without recalling “Save the cheerleader, …
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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"!
As is often the way with grief, this processing is complicated.
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Classic SF with Andy Johnson
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:
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:
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:
Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons
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…
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…
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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…
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:
A Meal of Thorns
A Meal of Thorns
A Meal of Thorns
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…
