Stand on Zanzibar

Hugo and Nebula Readership Podcast

English - June 23, 2021 16:00 - 48 minutes - 45 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
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We're not quite hip enough for hip crime vocab, are you? On this episode of the Hugo and Nebula Readership podcast, the two sisters are reading the groundbreaking dystopia Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner - it won the Hugo for 1969. Give us a listen.

Want to skip a bit or jump to your favorite part? Here are the time markers for this episode:

01:51 Book’s Blurb which has no plot synopsis...

02:48 so we attempt one ourselves

05:40 History Lesson

12:26 General discussion and big theme

17:28 Dystopias and all that

23:50 Donald and/or Norman?

28:02 Chad C. Mulligan and the HipCrime Vocab

29:32 The Shiggies

31:57 … and we circle back to Chad C. Mulligan

34:40 John Brunner and the future

37:50 The Begi stories

41:20 Five Questions

Music by Carl Miles