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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Near-Future SF That Almost Forecast Actual Events
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:58:57 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
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In article <slrnvonem6.1b09.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> 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.

Waaaaaaay back in the 1980s, there was a Canadian show about a pandemic
originating in Toronto. The city was subjected to a rather brutual 
quarantine. One of the fictional news announcers covering the story
was oddly gleeful about it all. That guy was played by Tom Cherington,
who was a well-known (at the time) news guy from Hamilton and he didn't
care for Toronto _at all_. 
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