The Fiction that Predicted the Future18 Mar 2020The prophetic writer who gives us hopeThe visionary sci-fi author envisaged an alternate future that foresaw many aspects of life today, from big pharma to Trumpism. Now she has a cult following.18 Mar 20205 Sep 2019The story of cannibalism that came trueEdgar Allan Poe was a prophetic master of macabre twists and turns. But most uncanny is the book he wrote about a ship wreck – and how life imitated art, writes Hephzibah Anderson.5 Sep 201921 Jun 2019The fiction that predicted space travelAs a scientist, many of Arthur C Clarke’s predictions for the future came true. But his wildly imaginative science-fiction writing is his greatest legacy.21 Jun 201910 May 2019The 1968 novel that predicted todayIn the first of BBC Culture’s new series on fiction that predicted the future, Hephzibah Anderson looks at the work of John Brunner, whose vision of 2010 was eerily accurate.10 May 2019
