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User spc476's recommendation, Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up", isn't really a sequel, but appears to take place in the world of "Stand on Zanzibar", which I (pers
by ci5er 10y ago
User spc476's recommendation, Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up", isn't really a sequel, but appears to take place in the world of "Stand on Zanzibar", which I (personally) thought was better written.
Having been influenced by Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock", he (Brunner) also wrote a novel called "Shockwave Rider".
People of that era appear to have been worried more about "The Population Bomb" scenarios than "Global Ecosystem Collapse" scenarios. That said - the underlying driver of ecosystem collapse is overpopulation, so there is a fair amount of thematic overlap.
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson comes to mind, but that might just be my broken brain talking nonsense...
- tgb 10y ago2312 is definitely good ecosystem sci Fi (though it serves less well as a murder mystery sci fi). But it was written quite recently (published 2012).
- DonHopkins 10y agoThere's also "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller" written by Neil Stephenson in 1988, who's written a lot of other classic cyberpunk you may have heard of. >The protagonist is inspired by environmental chemist Marco Kaltofen. Taylor is a recreational user of nitrous oxide, justifying his choice of drug by the eponymous Sangamon's principle: "the simpler the molecule, the better the drug". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(novel)
- okwhatthe2 10y agoAn excellent book, featuring the Boston area as a major character.
- DonHopkins 10y agoAfter reading that book, I was afraid of Legal Sea Foods' All-You-Can-Eat Lobster Buffet.
- samatman 10y agoI think of Shockwave Rider as the first nascent foray into what became cyberpunk. Highly recommended if cyberpunk is something you enjoy. John Brunner's work in general, really, but Shockwave Rider in particular