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Has Murphy's Law chosen 2020 to play itself out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

• JJMcJ 7y ago
  Robert Heinlein had a story The Year Of the Jackpot, about exactly this. Ends with the Sun going nova.
  • gumby 7y ago
    It was the first science fiction story I ever read, and I was 11. I still remember the opening line. "At first Potiphar Breen did not notice the girl who was undressing."
  • addHocker 7y ago
    "There's something wrong with the sunset" "No, with the Sun."
  • gerikson 7y ago
    I wonder if that's where Gibson got the term "the Jackpot" for the slow-motion catastrophe that overtakes future Earth in The Peripheral.