Life imitates SF: Thus spake John Brunner
Jan. 10th, 2006 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peteryoung" Yatakangi! Victory is certain!" This is an extraordinarily spectacular fall from grace: the ever-deepening saga of an Asian scientist guilty of faking research into human cloning. More and more I find myself half-believing Brunner wrote the future*. And not just in Stand on Zanzibar — the recent Benbella edition of The Sheep Look Up includes an appendix which lists a whole raft of environmental disasters Brunner somehow predicted that have also come to pass.
* Mind you, Jules Verne also did a pretty good job of it in Paris in the Twentieth Century, which went unpublished for 130 years while events unfolded.
* Mind you, Jules Verne also did a pretty good job of it in Paris in the Twentieth Century, which went unpublished for 130 years while events unfolded.
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Date: 2006-01-10 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-10 08:31 pm (UTC)(Of course the name the series has come to be known by isn't completely accurate, as Shockwave Rider came out of a combination of Futureshock and the first Whole Earth Catalog - which is why it is the most positive of the sequence.)
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Date: 2006-01-10 08:40 pm (UTC)And Shockwave is the only one of the four not currently in print...
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Date: 2006-01-10 08:42 pm (UTC)