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Blake Anderson's The Great Awakening Sounds the Alarm with a Cautionary Tale
Blake Anderson joins Mookie in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Factory to talk about The Great Awakening, his debut novel built around an amazing premise: every person on Earth shares the exact same near-death-style dream overnight, wakes up transformed, and watches the world's tribalism dissolve into universal empathy. Blake traces the idea back to a debate he watched between Ben Shapiro and Alex O'Connor about religion and open-mindedness. As an atheist, he started asking himself what kind of message would actually convince him God was real, and he landed on the premise driving the whole…
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