'My novel now feels unnerving': authors who predicted the pandemic | Books
The Children of Men, from 1992, shows societyâs vulnerability ; the clones created in Kazuo Ishiguroâs The 2010 film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguroâs Never Let Me Go. Photograph: AP But as a writer of speculative fiction, I never expected to gauge the distance between my novel and the world I was living in. Some things I wrote about, for instance how characters would feel after years of a pandemic, now feel unnerving. I imagined Dawn â a character who rises quickly up the higher ranks of the civil service partly by dint of remaining alive â being excited to travel aga...
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