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Subject: Re: Near-Future SF That Almost Forecast Actual Events
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:13:06 -0500
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On 1/19/2025 12:03 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:58:12 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
> <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> "Seemed to prophecy" nothing.
> 
> When it was released, Three-Mile Island was already an event, and the
> wisdom of releasing /The China Syndrome/ so soon after was questioned.

Can you give a cite for that? According to Wikipedia, the film was
release 12 days *before* Three-Mile-Island.

IMDB: Movie release date: March 16, 1979.
Wikipedia: TMI: March 28, 1979

[...]

> If you like, you can point out that it was, no doubt, written and made
> before TMI. But I don't think that works as a prophecy, since nobody
> knew about it.

Given that it was in theaters before and during the accident, I think it
actually does work as prophecy.

[...]

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