Episode #113 The Best Science Fiction Novel of 1968 w/ Brian Collins and Lisa Yazsek

If there is a cursed episode of this podcast it is this one. Sparked by an argument on Twitter started when I declared John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar the best SF novel of the 20th century. Multiple people responded saying it wasn’t their favorite of the year. I invited all the people who weighed in and trying to schedule 4 time zones and five people’s schedules proved impossible. So it ended but three people instead six. I tried. Lisa returning two episodes brings it of course and Brian Collins of SF Remembrance blog does a wonderful job helping me guide the conversation on Science Fiction in 1968.  In this episode, we talk about the culture in 1968, the state of the SF community, which books were nominated for the two major awards, where the conventions were held, and deep into the books of that year. Those deep dives include Picnic in Paradise by Joanna Russ, Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch, Nova by Samuel R. Delany, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD, and Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. You can find my books here: Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here: Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/