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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: Near-Future SF That Almost Forecast Actual Events
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:58:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 14:29:26 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> On 2025-01-18, Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
>> People have been writing near-future SF for decades and when the future
>> comes, it doesn't resemble those books. However, on occasion there have
>> been odd matches.
> 
> It's hard to beat the Québécois TV show _Épidémie_, which was presumably
> shot in summer 2019, aired from January to March 2020,
> and presented the fictional outbreak of a coronavirus epidemic in
> Montréal.

You could go back to 1979, where the movie "The China Syndrome"
seemed to prophecy the Three-Mile Island accident. 

In 1886 W. T. Stead wrote a novel that seemed to prophecy the
Titanic disaster. But that was so far ahead of the event that
it might not have registered in public consciousness as
prophecy. But he did go down with the Titanic, so he gets
extra points...