![]() Questions not just about the prediction stuff but about the book in general.Ĭhuck, what the fuck did you unleash this time? Still, I get a lot of questions over email - or at the book events I’ve done recently - and I thought, hey, why not talk about some of this stuff. Wayward is, of course, not a book I really intend to be itself a predictive engine either, despite one of its characters being a predictive intelligence called Black Swan. Like, I got anxieties, and I’m gonna put them on each page like a smashed butterfly. Rather, I’m trying to talk about the present, hoping to contextualize what’s going on around me and, even more myopically, in my own crazy head. ![]() ![]() I’m not setting out to predict the future, despite, um, also predicting Elon Musk was gonna be a bad guy (see: Invasive, 2017). ![]() After all, in Wanderers, out in 2019, I wrote about a global pandemic that comes from bats that releases in a contentious election year during the rise of Christofascist white nationalism aaaand, well, yeah. Realistically, I’ve been getting a certain kind of email since around, ohh, March of 2020, which often wants to dance around the question - or ask it directly - of whether or not I *booming voice* PREDICTED THE FUTURE. ![]()
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