Show Notes
This may be my scariest episode ever!
We’ve covered non-fiction before, but rarely is the truth more frightening than the stories we tell. This week it just might be… cos Annie Jacobsen is here with Biological War: A Scenario.
It unveils a narrative of speculative reality, in which an engineered pathogen escapes a lab, and runs rampant through our civilisation. Cities fall, millions die, the lights go out.
I dared myself to read it. I dare you to listen to Annie tell us about her research, and the stuff she found that scares the hell out of her.
Enjoy (sort of!)
Other books mentioned:
Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024), by Annie Jacobsen
“A Modest Proposal” (1729), by Jonathan Swift
World War Z (2006), by Max Brooks
The Deluge (2023), by Stephen Markley
A Brief History of the Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (2021), by Andrew H. Knoll
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