Tonight I review John Brunner's 1969 Hugo Award winning novel "Stand of Zanzibar". I provide a spoiler free plot overview, discuss my likes, my dislikes, make some recommendations, I put it to the memory test and I rank it on our ever growing sci-fi shed ladder where I have been ranking all the Hugo and/or Nebula award winning novels.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Special Offer
01:03 Plot overview
05:25 What I Liked
09:31 What I didn't like
12:05 Memory Test
13:52 Recommendations
15:10 Ranking
20:43 Your feedback
Over the last year I have reread over 60 Hugo and/or Nebula award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I have been ranking them on the ever growing SF Shed Ladder.
I use the following criteria to help me rank these wonderful novels.
1. Concept (how interesting/unique is the SF or F concept)
2. Execution of the concept
3. Characters (interesting character arcs, relatable, interesting)
4. Writing (how much did i enjoy the writing)
5. How memorable are these novels (the memory test)
6. Plot (interesting twists and turns)
7. Ending (does the ending satisfy)
Playlist of all the Hugo Winning Novels
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGMlrr25EAvnteXr3XCOhER4xmU-Po6B6
Playlist of all the Nebula Winning Novels
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGMlrr25EAvkHtGC90-Kqb3ZCfi0Pu0Qb
The Shed Ladder Rankings
1 Hyperion - Dan Simmons
2 Dune - Frank Herbert
3 Gateway Frederik Pohl
4 A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr
5 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
6 Way Station - Clifford Symak
7 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
8 Doomsday Book - Connie WIllis
9 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
10 A Case of Conscience - James Blish
11 Tehanu - Ursula LeGuine
12 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
13 The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuine
14 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuine
15 This Immortal - Roger Zelazny
16 The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke
17 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
18 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
19 Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
20 Ringworld - Larry Niven
21 The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe
22 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K, Dick
23 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
24 Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
25 Red Mars - Kin Stanley Robinson
26 The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu
27 Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
28 Moving Mars - Greg Bear
29 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
30 The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
31 Redshirts - John Scalzi
32 Flowers for Algenon - Daniel Keyes
33 Rite of Passage - Alexei Panshin
34 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
35 Among Others - Jo Walton
36 The Uplift War - David Brin
37 A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
38 Startide Rising - David Brin
39 The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
40 The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
41 The City and the City - China Mieville
42 Man Plus - Frederik Pohl
43 Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney
44 Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang - Kate Wilhelm
45 Double Star - Robert Heinlein
46 A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
47 Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie
48 A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberh
49 Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher
50 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
51 The Terminal Experiment - Robert J Sawyer
52 The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
53 The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R. Delaney
54 The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
55 Timescape - Gregory Benford
56 No Enemy But Time - Michael Bishop
57 The Falling Woman - Pat Murphy
58 Slow River - Nicola Griffith
59 The Obelisk Gate - N.K Jemisin
60 The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin
61 The Stone Sky - N.K Jemisin