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Tous à Zanzibar (Le Choc du futur, tome 1)
Tous à Zanzibar (Le Choc du futur, tome 1) | John Brunner
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Le xxie siècle comme si vous y étiez. Ses Villes où les gens dorment – légalement – dans les rues, où le terrorisme est un sport et les émeutes urbaines un spectacle. Surpeuplé, démentiel, tout proche. Un monde où l’on s’interroge sur la conscience de Shalmeneser, l’oracle électronique, et où un sociologue brillant, Chad Mulligan, prêche dans le désert.Avec ce livre-univers, John Brunner a battu sur leur propre terrain les meilleurs spécialistes de la futurologie.Tous à Zanzibar a obtenu aux Etats-Unis le prix Hugo, en France le prix Apollo, et en Grande-Bretagne le prix de l’Association britannique de science-fiction. Un classique entre les classiques.
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Twainy
Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner
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I get 12 Audible credits yearly in March. It‘s amazing I have any left.

Amazon: use 6 credits get $20.

I have huge book club picks & a new book in a series I love. YES!

I can only dream of having the luxury of time to read a book, 3/4 of my page count‘s absorbed via ears vs eyes. I don‘t audio shame. Anyway you can get an unabridged book into your imagination - 5â­ï¸!

Current treeware: Malice by John Gwynne. Seeya in 6 months for that review 😆

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rwmg
Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner
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2010's world of 7 billion humans as seen from 1968.

This tour de force of world building combines broad strokes through media snapshots and a focus on a few characters. Much of John Brunner's vision has come true and much has not, and it's worth pondering what trends continued into the present confirming his predictions and what trends suffered discontinuities. 👎

rwmg It's in the relationships between the main characters and particularly between the main characters and their “shiggies“ that the difference between the prediction and the reality is most glaring but nevertheless, I am glad to have revisited this book because despite the gloomy atmosphere, it is fun. 4y
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rwmg
Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner
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The_Penniless_Author Looking at the snow outside my window and guessing we live in very different parts of the country 😂 4y
rwmg @the_Peniless_Author Oh, what part of Indonesia do you live in? If you've got snow, it must be somewhere in the mountains of Irian. 4y
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rwmg
Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner
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10 weeks to get here from The Book Depository

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tournevis
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📘 (cheating here) Tous à Zanzibar. (I can't think of anything else)
âœ’ï¸ Fiction: Carlo Luis Zafón; theory: Slavoj Žižek
🎥 Un zoo la nuit (1987)
🆠Zucchini (not eggplant).
#manicmonday #letterZ @JoScho

JoScho 🖤🖤🖤 5y
tournevis @JoScho 😘😘😘 5y
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Minervasbutler
Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner
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A rare example of an SF novel from the 60s, in all its hip, experimental glory, actually surviving its time and remaining a fascinating, if occasionally infuriating read today. Get past the first few pages which seem designed to alienate the unconvinced reader and this morphs into a great read which touches on profound themes without ever becoming po-faced or worthy. It won't be for everyone but it deserves to be much better known than it is.

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Minervasbutler
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Considering this was written in 1968 it's pretty prescient.