Every time there’s an advance in the state of knowledge, a movement into a brave new world (another literary reference, of course), some commentator or other informs us that we’re closer to meeting a Frankenstein (meaning, of course, the monster).
There’s definitely ironic books who criticize or simply acknowledge the events that currently occur in their time. The Sea of Tranquility (amazing book, btw) was published in 2022. It acknowledges the pandemic by referencing an oncoming pandemic in the actual plot of the book itself. The pandemic in the book plays a rather large, integral role.
