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June 19, 2008...2:02 pm

settling the world

Interesting look at Stand on Zanzibar at Torque Control. A book about its own present. My feeling in 1969 was that Brunner’s statement of the problem was a more effective appeal to people’s intelligence than any faked-up solution he could provide. But to electrify is never enough: sf so yearns to provide a cure for things & you have to forgive it that.

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