Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail 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. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:58:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="24145"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1962 Lines: 23 In article , Christian Weisgerber wrote: >On 2025-01-18, Robert Woodward 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_. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll