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He's not saying that zombie epidemics as a topic are over, just that his take on it has been rendered obsolete by current events. It's sort of like a short shor
by dhosek 7y ago
He's not saying that zombie epidemics as a topic are over, just that his take on it has been rendered obsolete by current events. It's sort of like a short short (either written by or edited by Isaac Asimov, I don't remember—I read it forty years ago) that proposed that Everest would never be summited because it had been colonized by Martians. Between acceptance and publication, Everest was summited.
- dhosek 7y agoAnother similar instance just popped into my brain—in college a friend wrote a piece for the college paper in which, writing about political changes in Eastern Europe, he wrote, "but don't expect the Berlin Wall to come down any time soon." As you might have guessed, the Berlin Wall came down between the writing and the publication.
- WalterBright 7y agoI recall a book in the bookstore in 1989 about how IBM was inevitably going to grow and take over the world. Wish I'd bought it. :-)
- macintux 7y agoI stumbled upon a paper I wrote in high school in 1987 about European unification. I came to the same conclusion; thankfully no one but my teacher ever read it, and I doubt she remembered it 2 years later.
- bryanrasmussen 7y ago>Between acceptance and publication, Everest was summited. That's obviously what they want you to think!
- teraflop 7y agoSounds like the story was "Everest", which was indeed written by Asimov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_(short_story)
- dhosek 7y agoThat's the one. Thanks.