Tag: American Dirt
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Doomer Lit, Pandemic Fiction, and more…

Fever dreams: did author Dean Koontz really predict coronavirus? (The Guardian) According to an online conspiracy theory, the American author Dean Koontz predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 1981. His novel The Eyes of Darkness made reference to a killer virus called “Wuhan-400” – eerily predicting the Chinese city where Covid-19 would emerge. But the similarities end there:…