When Reality Starts Catching Up With Fiction

Shockingly, despite the outrageous premise, one of the hardest aspects of writing Invasion was keeping the story ahead of real life.

In the book, Canada started preparing for war in 2026.

In the real world... well, it turns out, Canada started preparing for war in 2026.

Today, I found this on YouTube.

Yes. The Canadian military is reportedly modelling what a hypothetical U.S. invasion might actually look like.

To be clear, that doesn't mean anyone in Ottawa thinks American tanks are about to come rolling across the Peace Bridge. Military planners are supposed to consider unlikely contingencies. That's their job.

But there's still something rather surreal about watching defence analysts seriously discuss a scenario that, when I began writing Invasion, was deliberately chosen because it seemed so unlikely.

One of the central assumptions behind the novel is that Canada eventually realizes it can no longer take American friendship for granted, and quietly begins asking a question that would once have seemed absurd:

What if we actually had to defend ourselves against them?

Apparently, that question isn't quite as fictional as it used to be.

All I can say is:

Yikes.

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