Prescience in Fiction

Anti-immigrant rhetoric...build a wall...despise the other...blame victims...carry weapons.I'm not referring to hate speech spouted by some egomaniacal aspirant to power in the United States. This is all from the fictional world created by Lois Lowry in her astonishingly relevant The Giver quartet. I'm just rereading Book 3, Messenger. The last time I read it, Matty's gift felt almost mythic in its savior-like quality. Now I'm struck by the degree to which  the world in the book is our world. By how  farsighted fiction can be. Walls. Immigration. Hatred. Weapons.First published in 2004. Read it now.