Han Song, the Chinese Author Who Inadvertently Predicted the Future

Science fiction is responsible for imagining the future. However, by reading Han Song, one of the leading Chinese writers of the genre, one can sometimes experience the feeling of reading recent history. In 2000, he wrote a novel describing the collapse of the World Trade Center. In 2016, another book imagined the world transformed into a giant hospital, with doctors taking people out of their homes, just as it would sometimes happen during the …