289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid

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