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 ...
Dan Hartland
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:
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…
