Maybe.
Maybe they read the book and got an idea.................
Koontz is a great author. He also wrote a book called The Watcher about two genetically modified animals, a Golden Retriever that seemed to have some human DNA and a vile murdering creature that was genetically modified to kill. Both were developed in a genetics lab in the US. The man in the book found the Lab while hiking in the mountains. Both escaped from the lab and were being hunted but the monster was also hunting the Lab to kill it.
I have read it over and over and it sounds like something that could happen in the future. Very scary book.
Thats astonishing.
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I keep trying to remember a story from way back when where there was a killer plague and the Chinese were incinerating anyone who lapsed into a coma.Bring Out Your Dead
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The chicoms should’ve developed a cure FIRST, unless their goal is to thin out the 1.5 BILLION population they have.
Maybe. Though often such foretelling in pop culture isn’t.
Still, Wuhan as I understand it is the only location of this type of lab in China.
It’s not prophesy. Talented writers can envision what can happen and write about it convincingly. 1984.
Geez, I wonder if they will find find the story in an old Simpson s episode too ?
I’ve read or listened to a whole bunch of Koontz books.
Easy reading..
Never read this one though.
I listen to audio books at work, actually i’m in the middle of Koontz’s Ashley Bell right now.
Have to do this one next...
I’ll go one better. In the 2011 movie “Contagion”, an Asian dude making bat soup gives people a super-flu strain.
Does fiction manifest somehow?
Are some sci-fi writers prescient?
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The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400. A chilling literary coincidence or a case of writer as unwitting prophet?
The game/movie Resident Evil. The factory that makes the zombie virus has an umbrella shaped logo (viewed from the top) that is white and red.
The Wuhan Bio Lab has a logo that is the EXACT shape and style of it, but is white and blue.
Much of the play in the video is in Raccoon City.
Corona, move the letters around, spells Racoon. (Missing a “c” - but close enough!)
Have read many Koontz books but not this one. He’s a Catholic who writes about Biblical themes subtly without proselytizing, weaving those truths among astute, entertaining observations of modern culture.
There are too many prophetic sci-fi writers to count. Orwell & Burgess in particular are coming true before our eyes.
Plus, who’da thunk we’d actually have elected congresspeople promoting scary-ass crap straight outta Soylent Green?