John Brunner's “Stand on Zanzibar” spookily predicted today
The Sheep Look Up is fantastic. It's a very dark novel, but at the same time it has a great sense of irony. In particular, it keeps setting up characters and then throwing them to the wolves faster than you can say "Game of Thrones". For example, the plot is ostensibly about a legendary environmental activist who is about to come out of hiding — he's sought for inciting his followers to violence — at a pivotal time as the world is being thrown into a series of political wars/crises caused, indirectly, by environmental disasters (think Syria) and squabbling for resources, but the moment the hero emerges for his triumphant appeal to the American people, everything blows up in his face.The article doesn't mention The Jagged Orbit, which Brunner considered to form a trilogy together with Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up. Anyone read it?