7/8/2023 0 Comments Doomsday book connie![]() First published in 1992, Doomsday Book is set in a future in which time travel has been invented (or discovered). ![]() These thoughts were prompted by a fascinating novel by Connie Willis called Doomsday Book. I have also been thinking about the relationship between illness, mortality and the ethical dimensions of our interactions with one another. I have been thinking about the possible futures open to us - one in which, for example, COVID disappears one in which it becomes endemic but infects fewer people as more and more of us get vaccines and develop antibodies and one in which COVID is simply the first of many pandemic diseases that will appear in our lifetimes - and how our society and our world will be shaped as one of these possible futures unfolds. Published in 1992, Willis’ book has appeared in a number of editions and the Spectator is having some fun presenting them. ![]()
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