- Life Imitates Art: The novel was published in 1992, and the action takes place in 2055, but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
- Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
- An elderly doctor who comes out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
- American guests refuse to follow epidemic orders and Dunworthy reflects that this behavior is why so many Americans died in the previous pandemic - the fictional one would that would have happened about 2020.
- Technology Marches On: Dunworthy needs to find a landline telephone despite being in a futuristic university that travels through time. Brasenose's computer has a "moat" rather than a firewall.
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