A Meal of Thorns 52- STAND ON ZANZIBAR with Dan Hartland

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 to discuss these questions and more. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! - Guest: Dan Hartland - Title: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner - Host:Jake Casella Brookins - Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia - Artwork byRob Patterson - Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough References: - Strange Horizon’s 2026 fund-drive - *Strange Horizons*’ Critical Friends podcast - *The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan* - Prism, Plastic, Void by Violet Allen - This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar - *Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir* - We The Parasites by A.V. Marraccini - Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Trade of Blood, Mr. Shivers, and Divine Cities trilogy - Orion’s “SF Masterworks” series - Alfred Bester’s *The Stars My Destination* - Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War - The Club Of Rome’s report “The Limits to Growth” - Brunner’s “Club or Rome Quartet”: *Stand on Zanzibar*, The Sheep Look Up, Shockwave Rider, Jagged Orbit - John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy - New Worlds magazine - "New Wave" science fiction - Timothy Leary - The Beatles’ *Please Please Me* versus *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* - Jad Smith’s John Brunner - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s The Sirens of Titan & Cat's Cradle - William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson - Thomas Disch's 334 & Camp Concentration - *The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne Howland Ehrlich* - *Soylent Green*, dir. Richard Fleischer - Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison - Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” - Vajra Chandrasekera - China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein - *Network, dir. Sidney Lumet* - Marshall McLuhan - *Taylor Sheridan & John Linson’s Yellowstone series* - *Transmetropolitan* comic series by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson et al. - Going Rogue podcast - Warren Ellis sexual coercion allegations; lots more but here’s an early overview from the Guardian - “FogHorn Barge” from Daniel Simon @ SoundBible, CC BY 3.0 - James Ellroy's The Cold Six Thousand - David Runciman’s “Are we doomed?” for *LRB* - Degrowth - KSR’s The Ministry for the Future - E.J. Swift’s *When There Are Wolves Again* - *Strange Horizons*’ “Ageing in Science Fiction” special issue - Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 - Julia Armfield’s Private Rites - Jacqueline Nyathi’s Harare Review of Books - David Brin's Earth - Jerry Pournelle - Dan's Bluesky - The Clarke shortlist discussion will appear on Nerds of a Feather - Tenacious D - The Long Winters - The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA)