Author kept coming up with scenarios for the fall of the United States — but then they kept coming true

Gary Shteyngart , source of the hit novel Super Sad True Love Story , tells the L.A. Times he wanted to coiffure his novel after the collapse of the United States . But the tragedy scenarios he came up with kept coming lawful .

allot to the Times :

When he began the project in 2006 , Shteyngart planned to write a science - fiction story pose at the fourth dimension of the flop of the United States . But as he compose fancied catastrophe scenarios , many of them in reality happened . He discovered that “ we experience in such a fast - pace society that the moment you require to write about something , that instant is gone . The only manner to bewitch the present is to write about the futurity . ”

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