My Dystopian Novel Was A Work Of Fiction. So Why Am I Watching It All Come True?
News Source : HuffPost
News Summary
- "The Distractions" was written in 2012, when much of what we’re seeing now didn’t exist.
- By the time it was published in 2025, much of the futuristic landscape I’d “imagined” for the book was bleeding into reality.
- Some of the parallels are humorous, and, like “servergrippers” making coffee, innocuous — considering.
- In other ways, the extent to which my novel’s world mirrors our contemporary reality terrifies me.
When a friend recently sent me this New York Times profile of influencer Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, in a text that said, This reminds me of your novel in its futuristic weirdness, I was on a [+11167 chars]
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