Fiction that is looking more and more real

[sonrisa]

What are some that come to mind?

DH brought up the series "Counterpart" from a few years ago. There are divergent realities. The alternate reality suffered a bad pandemic which changed it forever. Apparently we are living in the alternate reality, after all

[strawberry]

1984 😭

[dcrunnergirl52]

Blindness. Obviously different "disease" but the downfall of society keeps coming to mind.

Life As We Knew It, about the moon being knocked closer to the earth and how society is slowly and quickly impacted

[hulley]

Mar 26, 2020 7:17:35 GMT -5 dcrunnergirl52 said:

Life As We Knew It, about the moon being knocked closer to the earth and how society is slowly and quickly impacted

This one for me, too. Especially the part where the mom has them go stock up on food.

[Jalapeñomel]

Station 11

[carmenere]

Remember back when Trump headlines just read like something from The Onion? Those were the days. This dystopian shit is too real.

[yentl]

[Vespasia]

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry. It is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set after most of the population is wiped out by something referred to as the Cough.

It was really good but there's no way I would read it now.

[just]

Severance by Ming La Ling Ma (thanks SwimDeep)

The first half is very much about the normalcy of so much of life even during a (much deadlier) pandemic.

[doxies]

Mar 26, 2020 8:05:37 GMT -5 just said:

Severance by Ming La

The first half is very much about the normalcy of so much of life even during a (much deadlier) pandemic.

Yes!  I forgot about that one.  Didn't it start in China too and they were going to factories there and the people were trying to hide the outbreak?  Then she keeps going to the office and pretending everything is normal as people drop one by one?

[SwimDeep]

Mar 26, 2020 8:05:37 GMT -5 just said:

Severance by Ming La

The first half is very much about the normalcy of so much of life even during a (much deadlier) pandemic.

The author is Ling Ma... not trying to snark. I only know because I just looked it up to add to my library hold list.
I'm looking forward to reading it. Thanks for the rec!

[wildrice]

Mar 26, 2020 7:54:58 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Station 11

This was going to be my suggestion. 

[jaybird]

Mar 26, 2020 8:52:53 GMT -5 wildrice said:

Mar 26, 2020 7:54:58 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Station 11

This was going to be my suggestion. 

Her new book came out this week and is so, so good. And, it's not about pandemics, FYI

[nicbreeful]

The Jakarta Pandemic.

Really good book, I've read it twice. When I first read it, it was a single self published eBook. It looks like it's since been picked up by a publisher and turned into a series. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

Don't recommend reading it right now though if current events have made you a doom and gloom type lol.. because this book is definitely a worst case scenario look at a world flu pandemic. 

ETA It looks like I read this book originally back in 2011. Not only that, it's loanable to anyone that has a Kindle/the Kindle app. Tag me if you'd like to read it and I'll send it to you.

[pedanticwench]

Parable of the Sower

[BlondeSpiders]

Mar 25, 2020 23:05:20 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

What are some that come to mind?

DH brought up the series "Counterpart" from a few years ago. There are divergent realities. The alternate reality suffered a bad pandemic which changed it forever. Apparently we are living in the alternate reality, after all

Was this the show with Lucius Malfoy as the main character? I really liked it, then it got cancelled/

[AJL]

Contagion (obv.)

[sonrisa]

Mar 26, 2020 15:28:30 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Mar 25, 2020 23:05:20 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

What are some that come to mind?

DH brought up the series "Counterpart" from a few years ago. There are divergent realities. The alternate reality suffered a bad pandemic which changed it forever. Apparently we are living in the alternate reality, after all

Was this the show with Lucius Malfoy as the main character? I really liked it, then it got cancelled/

J.K. Simmons plays the main character. Olivia Williams is his wife. 

[susquehanna]

“Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood

[konapoppy]

Yep, we are in Counterpart. I have been saying this to my husband for a few weeks.

[wise_rita]

Chiming in from Australia: On the Beach.

An old but great book!

The insidious wait for doom is really applicable now.

[RitzyHeifer]

The Rationing by Charles Wheelan (it’s political satire about an inept government, although I’d take his fictional inept government over what we actually have...)

[softkitty]

The Stand by Stephen King
Scary but close to reality now. Minus the supernatural aspect.

[af1212]

Mar 27, 2020 4:51:31 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Chiming in from Australia: On the Beach.

An old but great book!

The insidious wait for doom is really applicable now.

Is this the one about nuclear fallout? I feel like was part of a class I took in HS.

[wise_rita]

Mar 28, 2020 18:21:23 GMT -5 af1212 said:

Mar 27, 2020 4:51:31 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Chiming in from Australia: On the Beach.

An old but great book!

The insidious wait for doom is really applicable now.

Is this the one about nuclear fallout? I feel like was part of a class I took in HS.

Indeed it is.  Super good book.

[mountaingirl]

Mar 27, 2020 4:51:31 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Chiming in from Australia: On the Beach.

An old but great book!

The insidious wait for doom is really applicable now.

[br
Love this book. I re-read it about a year ago. My local library had to go up into storage to get it. I’m in a tiny town and the library is kn an old stone building with not much room.

[sillygoosegirl]

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin

[TR]

Mar 26, 2020 15:28:30 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Mar 25, 2020 23:05:20 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

What are some that come to mind?

DH brought up the series "Counterpart" from a few years ago. There are divergent realities. The alternate reality suffered a bad pandemic which changed it forever. Apparently we are living in the alternate reality, after all

Was this the show with Lucius Malfoy as the main character? I really liked it, then it got cancelled/

I know the show you’re talking about! Not the name, unfortunately, I’d have to imdb it. But his two worlds were one where his son had survived an accident and his wife died, and one where his wife had survived, but the son died. And it switched every time he slept maybe?

ETA: Awake. 2012. Time flies.