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Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic
Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Mar 26, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Pandemics are a recurring trope in science fiction, but this turns out to be surprisingly unhelpful when we're facing a contagion in reality. We talk to Mike Chen, author of the new pandemic novel A Beginning at the End, about how science fiction uses disease as an allegory for almost everything except, well, disease. Mike wrote his novel over a year before the COVID-19 outbreak, and tells us what it's like to make a prediction that comes true--sort of. Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes
Released:
Mar 26, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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