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March 22, 2018 02:21 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/etcdA94CVfo/timing-vs-survivor-bias.html
Science fiction, predicting the present, the adjacent possible, and trumpian comic dystopias
In 2010, Steve Almond started work on a Tea Party-inspired novel called Bucky Dunn Is Running, about a racist demagogue businessman who comes within a whisker of the Republican nomination for their presidential candidate; he'd aimed to have it done for the 2016 election season, but then Trump happened, and his satire seemingly caught up with him. (more…)
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