'The apocalypse of 20th-century sci-fi was always sudden and explosive: nuclear annihilation, asteroid strike, global pandemic. Now the apocalypse comes on little cat feet and reveals itself slowly.' TheWeirdnessIsComing
Photo-Illustration: by Marcus Peabody; source images Getty On October 30, a group of chanting nurses gathered outside a detention facility in San Diego and tried to deliver flu-vaccine kits to the Border Patrol officers. They were turned away, as expected. The Department of Homeland Security had decided not to vaccinate the migrant families it was holding captive. At least six detained children had already died.
The science-fiction writer imagines a dark future, then looks on in horror as the world hurtles into an even darker one. As William Gibson put it to me, “The Zeitgeist from which I necessarily carve my doodles has gone all adamantine.” Trump’s election upset Gibson’s plan for a sequel to his 2014 near-future dystopia, The Peripheral.
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