100% agree. If you've read this book, that first chapter has likely come to mind a few times this summer. Terrifying.
âpihtawikosisânNothing has scared me on an existential level quite like the opening chapter of The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Published in 2020 it describes one of the most harrowing mass death events from extreme heat I've ever encountered. It is fiction, by a slim margin.