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Book Igloo

by Miler Lagos

One of my favorite authors, Steve Alten, predicted what seems to be described as an iPad in 1997 when writing the manuscript for Domain, a book (a favorite of mine) about the Mayan doomsday prophecy of 2012.

I’ve read this book twice before (reading it again for a third time this year) and just realized this. In a newsletter from Steve that I anticipate anxiously every month due to his informative and off-topic content (the joke of the month is my favorite part!), he explains that “[he] had to project what things would be like in 2012” back in 1997. It seems he was spot on.

I wonder what other things he may have predicted (or will predict) successfully in 2012.

(Source: moariarty)

I didn’t try to tell him different. It’s scary to find out that someone else, even a friend, knows just how things are with you. “You are just a kid, Gordie.”

“Gee, thanks, Dad.”

“I wish to fuck I was your father!” he said angrily. “You wouldn’t go around talking about taking those stupid shop courses if I was! It’s like God gave you something, all those stories you can make up, and he said: ‘This is what we got for you, kid. Try not to lose it.’ But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them, and if your folks are too fucked up to do it then maybe I ought to.”

—The Body, Stephen King

(Source: superpasta)