A viewer asks: “The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz (1981) has been making the rounds in social media. Is this a result of ET time travel shenanigans? If so, for what purpose? What was the inspiration for this author’s description of a deadly biowarfare agent, Wuhan-400, developed at a Chinese lab?”

This was not instigated by the extraterrestrials as a kind of inside joke to put on display a description of a future calamity that turns out to be close to home, so to speak. This was a prophetic awareness intuitively by this author of the future potentiality for this pandemic to be a serious issue and was interwoven using those plot elements of location and the nature of what is truly a bioweapon that would emerge in the future, and borrow them for his fictional story. This happens again and again because writers are, in effect, channeling the divine for inspiration of all kinds. So this allows many opportunities for divine wisdom to be imparted and this may include prophetic descriptions of things to put them within the pool of human consciousness, and this as well can allow shared concepts and ideas to percolate and become a potential focus for human yearnings requesting help for humanity in various ways, or to simply provide clues of future doings of the interlopers, so humans may awaken to the possibility of such manipulations of their world in seeing, inexplicably, how an author has an uncanny description of something that was put on paper well before the actual events themselves that came true in some regard. There are many examples through history; for example, the book about an unsinkable ship named the Titanic published long before the actual Titanic disaster being a sizeable tragedy that is still talked about today. That was also an extraterrestrial-arranged catastrophe to simply diminish human progress by pulling the rug out from under what was felt to be a landmark achievement in shipbuilding technology.