has anybody read Morgan Robertson's novel about a fictional passenger ship called the TITAN, which reportedly paralleled nearly in exactly the same way the TITANIC was lost in 1912 and was written a few yrs before the event ? can anybody think of any other such examples of fiction actually becoming truth ?
Coincidental FH books which become OTL- fiction becomes truth...
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Debt of Honor. The book ends with a suicidal JAL pilot doing a kamikaze number on the US Capitol building.
Some Wild Coincidences....
Here are a few wild coincidences that I certainly remember:
A) The Lone Gunmen (FoX-TV)- In one episode, the Lone Gunmen discover an attempt by the military to develop a disaster scenario that would justify the creation of martial law. In the episode, teh scenario that was chosen by military officials was the crashing of a 747 into downtown NYC, specifically the World Trade Center....
B) The Siege (1998)- starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, and Annette Benning, predicts terrorist attacks ordered by a leader who seems to be Osama bin Laden, accusations of torture launched against American soldiers based on the "illegal captivity" of terror cell leaders, the bombing of NYC by suicide bombers, the possiblity of internment of Arab-Americans discussed by political pundits...
C) The Shape of Things to Come (1936) - based on the H.G. Wells novel predicts a war against Germany, with the bombing of London, the removal of Great Britain as a political superpower....
Here are a few wild coincidences that I certainly remember:
A) The Lone Gunmen (FoX-TV)- In one episode, the Lone Gunmen discover an attempt by the military to develop a disaster scenario that would justify the creation of martial law. In the episode, teh scenario that was chosen by military officials was the crashing of a 747 into downtown NYC, specifically the World Trade Center....
B) The Siege (1998)- starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, and Annette Benning, predicts terrorist attacks ordered by a leader who seems to be Osama bin Laden, accusations of torture launched against American soldiers based on the "illegal captivity" of terror cell leaders, the bombing of NYC by suicide bombers, the possiblity of internment of Arab-Americans discussed by political pundits...
C) The Shape of Things to Come (1936) - based on the H.G. Wells novel predicts a war against Germany, with the bombing of London, the removal of Great Britain as a political superpower....
Max Sinister
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When I read the FH of the RPG Shadowrun, I continued that story a bit, writing a few things about Germany in TTL.
Well, and this story of mine started like that:
In 2005, the German government of Social Democrats and Greens falls because of continuing economic problems (in Shadowrun, they were caused because of the Big Earthquake that was supposed to destroy NYC this year, though). The Social Democrat party splits, and a new Socialist party emerges, led by Oskar Lafontaine, and unites with the East German PDS (old Socialists).
Let's see how things go on...
Well, and this story of mine started like that:
In 2005, the German government of Social Democrats and Greens falls because of continuing economic problems (in Shadowrun, they were caused because of the Big Earthquake that was supposed to destroy NYC this year, though). The Social Democrat party splits, and a new Socialist party emerges, led by Oskar Lafontaine, and unites with the East German PDS (old Socialists).
Let's see how things go on...