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@Lizette603_23 Seems like it to me. Never been. Have read #StandonZanzibar #SciFi #JohnBrunner where it was one of the worldbuilding bits that it would be. For 2010.
I'd also think DC is anomalous.
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@Lizette603_23 Seems like it to me. Never been. Have read #StandonZanzibar #SciFi #JohnBrunner where it was one of the worldbuilding bits that it would be. For 2010.
I'd also think DC is anomalous.
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Fantapolemiche del weekend
Non sono più una ragazza, e lo dico con quella serenità che arriva solo dopo molti anni di giornalismo, parecchi scaffali riempiti e un numero imprecisato di entusiasmi sopravvissuti alla prova del tempo. Da bambina mio padre mi metteva in mano Asimov, Heinlein e Vance con la stessa naturalezza con cui altri, più prudenti, consegnano le fiabe. È stata una fortuna enorme. Alla fantascienza devo la curiosità, il vizio di guardare di lato, l’abitudine a diffidare delle superfici lisce e […]https://leargenteetesteduovo.com/2026/06/30/fantapolemiche-del-weekend/
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Fantapolemiche del weekend
Non sono più una ragazza, e lo dico con quella serenità che arriva solo dopo molti anni di giornalismo, parecchi scaffali riempiti e un numero imprecisato di entusiasmi sopravvissuti alla prova del tempo. Da bambina mio padre mi metteva in mano Asimov, Heinlein e Vance con la stessa naturalezza con cui altri, più prudenti, consegnano le fiabe. È stata una fortuna enorme. Alla fantascienza devo la curiosità, il vizio di guardare di lato, l’abitudine a diffidare delle superfici lisce e […]https://leargenteetesteduovo.com/2026/06/30/fantapolemiche-del-weekend/
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#JohnBrunner est un auteur de #Sciencefiction qui n'est pas reconnu à sa juste valeur je trouve, surtout pour ses talents de prospectivistes.
Il faut lire « Le troupeau aveugle » et « Tous à Zanzibar », là encore écrits dans les années 70 ; c'est presque du reportage sur ce qui se passe depuis une 20aine d'années !
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Was passiert, wenn medizinischer Fortschritt mit einer faschistoiden Sozialpolitik zusammenfällt? Und wohin führt uns die quasireligiöse KI-Begeisterung, wenn wir sie konsequent zu Ende denken?
Zwei gefährliche Visionen von #LarryNiven und #JohnBrunner, die ich für #carcosa ins Deutsche übersetzen durfte. -
Was passiert, wenn medizinischer Fortschritt mit einer faschistoiden Sozialpolitik zusammenfällt? Und wohin führt uns die quasireligiöse KI-Begeisterung, wenn wir sie konsequent zu Ende denken?
Zwei gefährliche Visionen von #LarryNiven und #JohnBrunner, die ich für #carcosa ins Deutsche übersetzen durfte. -
#Synthesis is a useful activity. In thinking, taking a couple of apparently unrelated pieces of knowledge and by combining them enabling an unexpected new thing; activity; business; thought ...
As a full-time occupation of its own there are not many #synthetists.
In #SciFi it crops up in #StandOnZanzibar by #JohnBrunner and #RiteOfPassage by #AlexeiPanshin the latter pointed out the need for another discipline, #Ordinology which I suppose is a blend of #library science and computation.
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#Synthesis is a useful activity. In thinking, taking a couple of apparently unrelated pieces of knowledge and by combining them enabling an unexpected new thing; activity; business; thought ...
As a full-time occupation of its own there are not many #synthetists.
In #SciFi it crops up in #StandOnZanzibar by #JohnBrunner and #RiteOfPassage by #AlexeiPanshin the latter pointed out the need for another discipline, #Ordinology which I suppose is a blend of #library science and computation.
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@masek I actually had a full collection of John Brunner's published works, back before the flood. Including a lot of schlock. But when he was "on" he was absolutely dead on, wasn't he!
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@masek I actually had a full collection of John Brunner's published works, back before the flood. Including a lot of schlock. But when he was "on" he was absolutely dead on, wasn't he!
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@angelastella
#JohnBrunner with Eptification - with a bad result - and #JoeHaldeman with some sort of overlays in #WorldsApart and assorted authors with "memory tapes and of course #TheMatrix "now I do!"And in a less friendly way #LarryNiven with #Corpsicles and #RichardMorgan with the #DigitallyStoredHumans and #DigitallyFreightedHumans and uploading into a sleeve.
And a bunch more.
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@angelastella
#JohnBrunner with Eptification - with a bad result - and #JoeHaldeman with some sort of overlays in #WorldsApart and assorted authors with "memory tapes and of course #TheMatrix "now I do!"And in a less friendly way #LarryNiven with #Corpsicles and #RichardMorgan with the #DigitallyStoredHumans and #DigitallyFreightedHumans and uploading into a sleeve.
And a bunch more.
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La boite à livres m’a donné accès à de vieux "J’ai lu" des années 70, de Clifford D. #Simak et #JohnBrunner. C’est de la SF. Et j’adore ce côté délicieusement démodé de ces essais futuristes.Dans celui que je lis (difficilement), et qui fait que j’en parle en commentaire, c’est Brunner qui imagine une société où tout est interconnecté et traité par les ordinateurs.
Il évoque une société malgré tout fragmenté, et le traducteur utilise le mot « tribalisé ». Les populations se sont tribalisées. Ils ont beau tous être connectés, les groupes humains se sont fragmentés, et se sont tribalisés.
"via @biggrizzly - #tribalisé
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Sense of Wonder vous souhaite une bonne année en relisant Tous à Zanzibar de John Brunner (Prix Hugo 1969) !
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Sense of Wonder vous souhaite une bonne année en relisant Tous à Zanzibar de John Brunner (Prix Hugo 1969) !
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John Brunner wrote about an armament firm talking up dangers and arming all sides.
The #Gottschalks IIRC, in #TheJaggedOrbitDystopian? Since you ask, yes, rather.
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John Brunner wrote about an armament firm talking up dangers and arming all sides.
The #Gottschalks IIRC, in #TheJaggedOrbitDystopian? Since you ask, yes, rather.
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@skinnylatte He was with a lot of other things a marine biologist as far as i can renember. Cordwainer Smith
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@skinnylatte He was with a lot of other things a marine biologist as far as i can renember. Cordwainer Smith
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There's a John Brunner book about this
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CHILDREN OF THE THUNDER (1988)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30" x 20"A blunter statement on industrialization than my End of Nature personal works, this was painted in the late 80s for a novel set in the “decaying world of the 90s.” 1/2
#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #illustration #johnbrunner @delreybooks
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CHILDREN OF THE THUNDER (1988)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30" x 20"A blunter statement on industrialization than my End of Nature personal works, this was painted in the late 80s for a novel set in the “decaying world of the 90s.” 1/2
#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #illustration #johnbrunner @delreybooks
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don’t forget the alt text).
Day 1/20
#20books #20books20days #bookstodon #StandOnZanzibar #JohnBrunner
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Book Review: John Brunner’s The Squares of the City (1965) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/03/02/book-review-john-brunners-the-squares-of-the-city-1965/
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Book Review: John Brunner’s The Squares of the City (1965) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/03/02/book-review-john-brunners-the-squares-of-the-city-1965/
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Now that's a cool re-sale shop find. $1. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.
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Now that's a cool re-sale shop find. $1. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.
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Not the #Cyberpunk proper, being written back in 1975, but fucking close. And still extremely to the point even some fifty years later. It feels so damn contemporary I couldn't believe it had been written so long ago.
(I only checked the publishing date after I finished the book) 😯#ShockwaveRider #JohnBrunner #ComputerWorm #hacking #dystopia #mastobooks #SciFi #net #hackers
#GeneticEngineering #dystopian #government #deprogramming #FutureShock -
Not the #Cyberpunk proper, being written back in 1975, but fucking close. And still extremely to the point even some fifty years later. It feels so damn contemporary I couldn't believe it had been written so long ago.
(I only checked the publishing date after I finished the book) 😯#ShockwaveRider #JohnBrunner #ComputerWorm #hacking #dystopia #mastobooks #SciFi #net #hackers
#GeneticEngineering #dystopian #government #deprogramming #FutureShock -
Resale shop find. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. $1.
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Resale shop find. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. $1.
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Currently reading (technically listening). Truly saddening how close this "dystopia" is to reality.
#bookstodon #sciencefiction #scifi #JohnBrunner #TheSheepLookUp #books #novels #reading #audiobooks
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Currently reading (technically listening). Truly saddening how close this "dystopia" is to reality.
#bookstodon #sciencefiction #scifi #JohnBrunner #TheSheepLookUp #books #novels #reading #audiobooks
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I just finished reading (well, listening) Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. It won the Hugo Award, and has often been mentioned both by casual readers and by SF authors a must read, so I decided to give it a go.
I didn’t like it very much, but read till the end. Some minor spoilers included.
The Good & The Bad
The world building is pretty good, and the author uses the trick of having whole sections of jumbled up snippets, like zapping through TV channels, so that you get a bunch of advertisement, news reel and so on.
This is of course a common trope (my favourite Shaun of the Dead scenes plays on this) but it allows the writer to just give a ton of depth while avoiding character infodumping. It does not work too well on an audiobook, alas.
The plot lines are much of the same tho. We have multiple things happening, only tangential to each other.
There’s the megacorp that wants to develop something huge in Africa. There’s the afram (sic) manager which has risen quickly in the company ranks using his ethnicity. There’s the super-AI owned by the megacorp which is unable to approve the plans because they’re based on what it thinks are invalid assumptions. There’s the rising power of China with its own super-AI. There’s government-enforce eugenics, genetic manipulation, buying kids and baby farming in underdeveloped countries. The rise of a new power in south-east Asia. There’s the media controlling narrative and people living in their own bubble. There’s the truth-sayers which speak of the dangers of everything and are not censored, but they are basically ignored.
But, again: there’s so much stuff, and so little unity. I am not saying it’s badly written. It’s written perfectly. It’s just that I have not cared for this style since I hit 30.
The awesome
But wait, let’s go back to the worldbulding: it’s a really good world, and it holds together, and it feels very predictive, and modern and speaking a lot about our society.
But it was published in 1968. This means it is closer to World War I than it is to today. It’s a time when computers were in their infancy, and black&white TVs were still outselling the Color ones.
The author hit so many targets that it’s honestly mindblowing. And the writing still feel fresh and not dated at all.
So, I didn’t like this book very much, but I have to give say: maybe read it anyway.
6.5/10
PS
The AI, Shalmaneser, refuses to predict the economic results of the company’s projects in Beninia. I tried asking ChatGPT, and, alas, it also refused. So, mark one more point for the author.
#ai #books #john-brunner #science-fiction
https://riffraff.info/2023/03/mini-review-stand-on-zanzibar/
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Oh, we're hashtagging our favorite authors?! In no particular order*:
#WilliamGibson
#NealStephenson
#JohnBrunner
#RichardKMorgan
#MasamuneShirow
#PhillipKDick
#KatsuhiroOtomo
#BruceSterling
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some recommendations in no particular order:
#NancyKress - Beggars in Spain (Sleepless Trilogy)
#CJCherryh - Cyteen
#JohnScalzi - Old Man's War / Lock In
#JohnBrunner - Sheep Look Up / Stand on Zanzibar / The Shockwave Rider
#LoisMcMasterBujold - Vorkosiganand my all-time favorite
#TadWilliams - Otherland
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@albinokid Oof! hard to winnow it down to even seven but... #TerryPrachett #MarkTwain #StormConstantine #PatCadigan #TanithLee #JohnBrunner #TheodoreSturgeon
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Il Come Eravamo del Come Saremo: isole nello spazio 9
di Mauro Antonio MiglieruoloLa Fantascienza come poesia per immagini, puntata numero 58
Un
https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/il-come-eravamo-del-come-saremo-isole-nello-spazio-9/
#bottegadelbarbieri #labottegadelbarbieri
#Difuturicen'ètanti #Dossier #EditriceNord #Fantascienzacomepoesiaperimmagini #IlComeEravamodelComeSaremo #IsolenelloSpazio #JohnBrunner #MauroAntonioMiglieruolo #narrativad’anticipazione #spazio #urania -
Il Come Eravamo del Come Saremo: Robot 5
di Mauro Antonio MiglieruoloLa Fantascienza come poesia per immagini, puntata numero 52
Testo
https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/il-come-eravamo-del-come-saremo-robot-5/
#bottegadelbarbieri #labottegadelbarbieri
#Difuturicen'ètanti #Dossier #EditriceNord #fantascienza #Fantascienzacomepoesia #IlComeEravamodelComeSaremo #immaginidellafantascienza #JohnBrunner #MauroAntonioMiglieruolo #narrativad’anticipazione #robot #TuttiaZanzibar