Following up from yesterday’s clip of Sir Arthur, here’s a clip from episode 2 of Time Out of Mind, featuring John Brunner. In it Brunner explains why he has taken to writing near-future SF (books like Stand on Zanzibar, Shockwave Rider and The Sheep Look Up) instead of the space opera he was writing early in his career.
In another part of the show Brunner talks about Stand on Zanzibar and notes that in it he predicted a world population of 7 billion. We are now past that. The book is set in 2010, and we are past that too.
Thank you so much for sharing. I’ll be bringing this to my social media crew for consumption, in the hopes I can get a few more of his books read. I admit, I do miss the old style documentaries. They gave people time to say more than 30 seconds worth of clickbait.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Brunner is in my book showcase this month, so that’s nice timing.
You mentioned in your first Time Out of Mind article that people could get in touch to ask about getting copies of all of the episodes.. is that something you could still help with? I’ve seen only one before, and that’s the Worldcon episode already on youtube, would love to see the rest.
I’m planning on uploading them next week. Hopefully they won’t get taken down.
Super! Will keep an eye out.