A review by 11corvus11
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner

4.0

Interesting to listen to this after reading it so long ago. It def still has a very bleak predictive look on our current ecological collapse. It's missing the advanced tech (which is something i didn't notice much when I read it long ago,) and is dated in gender and race dynamics (but for the time period Brunner have it a good shot to call attention to racism and misogyny.) It has some trauma porn that seems unnecessary though. Also I like bleak dystopias- they validate my despair with the current weight of the world- but our present is so laughably absurd at times that it could have used a bit more levity. Overall an important work of sci-fi especially in the era where stuff in this vein got less attention at times.