The coronavirus, on the other hand, was not. In Koontz's novel, "Wuhan-400" is a human-made weapon.Here are a few things this "prediction" gets wrong: However, that's pretty much where the similarities end. It's also true that Wuhan, China, is the city at the center of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. It's true that Koontz named a fictional biological weapon "Wuhan-400" in this novel. This is a genuine page from the novel "The Eyes of Darkness." The passage can be seen in Amazon's preview of a mass market paperback edition of this novel that was released in December 2008. But in February 2020, after such an outbreak had occurred, eagle-eyed Koontz fans shared this passage as if the famous thriller author was a prognosticator. When readers first came across a biological weapon named "Wuhan-400" in Dean Koontz's novel "The Eyes of Darkness," we doubt anyone had the notion that the famous thriller author was "predicting" a real-world outbreak of COVID-19, coronavirus disease. Other than the name, his fictional biological weapon had little in common with the virus that caused a real outbreak in 2020. Dean Koontz did not predict an outbreak of a new coronavirus.
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