I wrote a book called
The Oracle Year, which is about a 27-year-old New Yorker named Will Dando who has a vision of 108 specific future events, things big and small. Once he realizes they’re all going to come true, he devises a plan to gradually release a few of the predictions into the world and otherwise use his foreknowledge for fun and profit. Cut to: the world going nuts once everyone finds out there’s an actual prophet running around, and increasing consternation from Will as he comes to understand that he got these predictions for a reason, and there’s a cost to knowing what’s going to happen.
It’s a fun read, full of twists and turns and, ahem, unpredictable. In celebration of its release, I decided to put together a list of Seven of the Worst Prophecies of All Time...