Meggan’s Reviews > Stand on Zanzibar > Status Update

still wrestling with this monster...

at this point its starting to read like a Pynchon novel but more enjoyable. I love it when he excerpts articles from science news in 1967 and imagines how these "advancements" might play out 2010.

Brunner predicts the Tivo and the collapse of the Detroit auto industry decades before it happened

Nice description: "On the face of almost every building, some sort of advertising display, so that spectators in upper rooms looked out of shabby oceans, the middle of a letter O, or the crotch of a receptive girl. A single exception to the cliff-wall nature of the street was formed by the adventure playground, like the intrusion of Einstein into the ordered world of Euclid."

2010-through-the-lens-of-the-1960's: riot it the East Village - people using garbage for weapons and the main character has the latest fist punching technology.