President “Obomi” (1968)
Predicting that the United States would someday have an African-American president? Not that impressive. Predicting that the United States would have an African-American president a full 40 years before it happens, and picking his name as “President Obomi?” Well, now you’ve got our attention. , an award-winning 1968 science-fiction novel set in 2010, was just two letters off the real future president’s unique last name. We can’t even begin to explain that.
It turns out, Stand on Zanibar’s author, John Brunner, also predicted DVRs, satellite news, terror threats, and legal marijuana. But we still can’t get over “President Obomi.”
