Earlier this week I started a new novel called "Lightbreakers," published in late 2025, which I suppose would have to be called science fiction as it revolves around a quantum-based approach to time travel.
It's set in the decades after the catastrophic explosion of a Europa-bound mission with astronauts aboard, so around 2100.
All well and good and entertaining.
A couple days later I saw a reference to a new (to me) 2024 movie set in Iceland: called "When The Light Breaks," it immediately went on my Watch List because all movies set in Iceland are must-see for me.
Why is that? I've never been to Iceland although I entertained thoughts of visiting decades ago; it's that every time I see scenes that take place there, I find them strangely appealing.
Those recent YouTube videos of Icelanders walking up to the edge of ongoing fresh lava flows from an erupting volcano, with no restrictions whatsoever, reinforced my sense of how differently they must perceive the natural world and its dangers and risks.
New Zealanders are like this too; at least, they were when I visited there in the 1980s.
But I digress.
It was only last night, when I was lying in bed reading (not "Lightbreakers": that's my daytime book) did the penny drop:
"Lightbreakers" and "When The Light Breaks"
Doh!
How is that possible?
How can two titles in two different mediums, each in progress for years before their release, have that much in common?
Coincidences and synchronicity have fascinated me as long as I can remember.
I've long believed that coincidence is a glimpse of the scaffolding of the universe: that regular occurrences such as this one continue to emerge out of the quantum foam is comforting, since it's only a matter of time until I dissolve into that very same quantum foam.
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The above was written on Thursday of this week (two days ago).
In the meantime another piece of scaffolding went up.
I was still reading "Lightbreakers" on Thursday (I've since finished it).
On page 237 (of 338) the following passage (see below) appears:
They could hear the sounds of the Cranberries' "Dreams" bleeding through from the neighboring room..."
My heart skipped a beat when I read that, because one day just last week I selected the Cranberries' "Dreams" as my treadmill workspace song of the day, which means it plays on repeat at deafening volume through great speakers two feet from my ears over and over and over, generally 40-50 times.
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