Published 13:55 IST, March 16th 2020
'Frankenstein' to '1984': These novels predicted the future accurately
Many books like Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and George Orwell's '1984' correctly predicted the future in their works of fiction. Read to know more.
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Sometimes books eerily hit nail on he and predicted future events accurately. While many of se mes have been written for creative purposes only, se mes or parts of work became a reality years after book of fiction was written. Due to this, se authors have earned a lot of fame for being visionaries.
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Here are some books that predicted future in ir own ways
Frankenstein
Frankenstein is a part of gothic fiction. book was written in year 1818 by Mary Shelley, wife of famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In vel, doctor Victor Frankenstein makes a new body by using various organs from de bodies. While this is t exactly what happens in medicine today, book talks about organ transplantation, which became a reality later.
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1984
George Orwell wrote a dystopian vel named 1984 in year 1949. book, while talking about how life is completely controlled by government, introduced a lot of techlogies that later became reality. It also includes artificial intelligence. Things like censorship, propaganda, surveillance, facial recognition, and speech-to-text conversion were a part of Orwell's vel way before y became a reality.
Eyes of Darkness
Dean Koontz might have been a bigger visionary than ors. writer h come up with a vel named Eyes of Darkness in 1981, which talked about a biological weapon named Wuhan-400. vel looks at story of a far who discovers that his son has been infected with a man-me microorganism called ‘Wuhan-400'. This can be connected to COVID-19 virus that originated from Wuhan in China in 2019.
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Gulliver's Travels
In world-famous vel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, writer h claimed something that later turned out to be true. In island of Laputa, which Gulliver discovers, re lived many scientists. Gulliver along with se scientists discovered that Mars has two moons. It is to be ted that book was written in 1726, while Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered in 1877.
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13:55 IST, March 16th 2020