Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic

<p>Pandemics are a recurring trope in science fiction, but this turns out to be surprisingly unhelpful when we're facing a contagion in reality. We talk to Mike Chen, author of the new pandemic novel <em>A Beginning at the End</em>, about how science fiction uses disease as an allegory for almost everything except, well, disease. Mike wrote his novel over a year before the COVID-19 outbreak, and tells us what it's like to make a prediction that comes true--sort of.</p> <p>Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes</p>