Posted on 02/17/2020 6:46:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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?
In The Eyes of Darkness, a grieving mother, Christina Evans, sets out to discover whether her son Danny died on a camping trip or if – as suspicious messages suggest – he is still alive. She eventually tracks him down to a military facility where he is being held after being accidentally contaminated with man-made microorganisms created at the research centre in Wuhan.
If that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up, read this passage from the book: “It was around that time that a Chinese scientist named Li Chen moved to the United States while carrying a floppy disk of data from China’s most important and dangerous new biological weapon of the past decade. They call it Wuhan-400 because it was developed in their RDNA laboratory just outside the city of Wuhan.”
In another strange coincidence, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which houses China’s only level four biosafety laboratory, the highest-level classification of labs that study the deadliest viruses, is just 32km from the epicentre of the current coronavirus outbreak. The opening of the maximum-security lab was covered in a 2017 story in the journal Nature, which warned of safety risks in a culture where hierarchy trumps an open culture.
Fringe conspiracy theories that the coronavirus involved in the current outbreak appears to be man-made and likely escaped from the Wuhan virology lab have been circulated, but have been widely debunked.
(Excerpt) Read more at scmp.com ...
Chinese foreign students were just starting to trickle out to study overseas.
I don't think they had a Virology Lab built in Wuhan then.
Read Matt Brackens trilogy.
10 years ahead of current events
Luck?
There is a book that “predicted” the Titanic sinking too.
RE: There is a book that “predicted” the Titanic sinking too.
When was it published and what was the title and author of the book? It has to be long before 1912 ( the sinking ), and it has to be before 1911 ( when it was built ).
Absolutely
Fiction yesterday. Still fiction today.
The Wreck of the Titan. About an ocean liner that struck an iceberg in the north sea and sank. Written 14 years before the Titanic sank.
The Wreck of the Titan, 1898.
“She named names”.....
https://youtu.be/LOjSEW09NxE
As a very young kid I remember that this book was mentioned at the end of an episode of the spooky series One Step Beyond which depicted strange events the creator, John Newland, claimed were true.
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Some writers do good research and synthesize.
Searching for it now.
Also, check the listings for the “eyes of darkness” book; insane prices...
That be it. I wonder if the illustration is pre Titanic.
Look up the term ‘remote viewing’ ... some writers may have it without knowing it.
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