Prophetic Fiction

The idea of prophecy in fiction was mentioned in lecture and there are examples of it in a few of our assigned readings. Vancouver Short Stories begins with The Prophetess which introduces the idea of the possibility of prophecy in regards to an Indian wild woman/oracle who predicted the Vancouver fire. The real teen violence that is escalating in the Vancouver area that was mentioned on the course fictionandreality blog and as was pointed out by Dr. Ogden in lecture, matches Coupland's vision in Hey Nostradamus!. All Tomorrows Parties is also presenting a prophetic vision of the future in regards to the technocratic consumer society model that the majority of the planet is emulating. The three English writers consisting of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and H.G. Wells are also extremely prophetic in regards to both the utopic and dystopic descriptions of the future. These writers all posited visions of the future that have all manifested themselves in a number of ways and frames the idea of the various prophetic truths that can be found in a work of fiction.