Stand on Zanzibar

Published: June 23, 2021, 4 p.m.

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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.\\xa0 \\xa0Give us a listen.

Want to skip a bit or jump to your favorite part?\\xa0 Here are the time markers for this episode:

01:51 Book\\u2019s Blurb which has no plot synopsis...

02:48 so we attempt one ourselves

05:40 History Lesson\\xa0

12:26 General discussion and big theme\\xa0

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\\xa0

31:57 \\u2026 and we circle back to Chad C. Mulligan

34:40 John Brunner and the future

37:50 The Begi stories

41:20 Five Questions

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Music by Carl Miles

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