Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy? – Yahoo Finance Australia

There’s an old saw from Mark Twain about how truth is stranger than fiction, and I think it’s fair to say we’ve lived through a very strange reality this past year. With all the chaos and change, we’re led to a foundational question: what’s the purpose of speculative fiction and its adjacent genres of science fiction and fantasy when so much of our world seems to already embody the fantastical worlds these works depict?
So I got our occasional fictional columnist Eliot Peper and the author of Veil,…

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