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Did Stephen King predict the future in "the running man" (lemm.ee)
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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

With thousands of sci-fi books being written every year, one of them is bound to be an accurate prediction.
And "like now, but on steroids" is basically the definition of the sci-fi genre.