![]() ![]() ![]() People dug out their old college copies of Camus’s The Plague or Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, and asked themselves whether rereading Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book was really such a good idea under the circumstances. By the end of the year, Stephen King’s The Stand was back as a TV series even longer than the one back in 1994 like COVID, it’s probably not yet over even as you read this. One of the most widely streamed films during those early months was the decade-old Contagion, which only reminded us of the halcyon days when it was still SF (at least Gwyneth Paltrow died in the first reel, whereas in our timeline she survived to give us Goop, which as I write is hawking a $75 Italian face mask). ![]() What had previously been the most boring software to emerge from the corporate app world, Zoom, suddenly became a lifeline for many, especially those without pants, while a simple trip to pick up groceries began to feel like going out on patrol in Predator, or wandering through a crowd of body snatchers who look just like us. ![]() Many of the usual distractions seemed to go on hold in the spring, and most of them never came back. It should have been a good year for reading. ![]()
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