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The novelists who predicted our present
- the__alchemist 10mo agoFor another Stephenson plot device: The Ameristan, Artificial Inanity, Apes, and post-truth society memes from Fall; or, Dodge in Hell hit close to home! Only 6 years ago though, so he had enough hints. edit: Artificial Inanity was from Anathem.
- dctoedt 10mo agoRobert A. Heinlein's "Future History" anticipated an amazing number of present-day phenomena, e.g., the rise of Christian theocrats. I sometimes idly wonder whether he was his time-traveling character Lazarus Long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long
- deafpolygon 10mo agoDid you forget Stephen King’s The Dead Zone?