Tag: conspiracy theory
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Fiction, Fact, and Fallout: The Story Behind a Biological Weapons Plot Point
Back in the mid-90s, when I was first writing Access, my “research process” didn’t look anything like it does today. The World Wide Web was barely more than a curiosity—maybe 500 pages total if you believed the jokes at the time—and I was still prowling electronic bulletin boards in the middle of the night, looking…
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When Government Conspiracy Research Walks the Line Between Fiction and Fear
In the earliest drafts of Access, I filled the pages with scraps of research scavenged from late-night dives into electronic bulletin boards and obscure government documents. This was the mid-90s, when the “information superhighway” was more like a gravel road, and part of the fun was seeing what strange, unsettling things you could turn up…
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Conspiracy Theory, Natural Disasters, and Fulfilling our own Prophecies
Today, I read with confusion that the rain that fell here on the Gulf Coast yesterday was black with oil and that I’m being prohibited from speaking out about the true conditions here in the Northwest corner of Florida because I’m secretly under martial law and some sort of lockdown. Really? These words were spoken…