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How do you think fiction writers will deal with Coronavirus?

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TheYearOfSmallThings · 17/02/2021 22:57

Will we have a rash of novels set during the pandemic? Or will it be ignored in fictionland? Or just a passing mention?

I was looking for references to the 1918 flu in contemporaneous fiction, and I found almost none, which has set me wondering.

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WonkyCactus · 17/02/2021 23:06

I follow the Irish writer Catherine Ryan Howard on Instagram and she's recently finished writing a novel set in lockdown. She's a crime writer so I think she's using the lockdown as a plot device to throw people together.

That's the first pandemic novel I've heard about. I kind of hope we don't get many novels set in 2020/21. I'm not sure I'd want to read a fictional take on this pandemic, at least not any time soon!