Did Anthony Burgess describe the Waco Siege before it Happened?

In 1980 British writer Anthony Burgess (1917-93) published Earthly Powers, a long and (for him) fairly conventional novel following the exploits of a gay British writer and his Italian extended family which includes the Pope (as you do). One of the events is the dissolution of a cult called the Children of God - a mass suicide provoked by an armed attack on their compound. More recently I made claims for this section believing it was closer to the events of the Waco siege (1993) than to its more obvious influence, the Jonestown massacre of 1978. However, as far as I can tell there was no mass suicide at Waco - it was heavy-handed armed policing all the way. Nor was there any actual armed assault from outside at Jonestown; Burgess added it to his account to provide a flashpoint for the action.

In some time around 1990-1992 (i.e. still before Waco), I wrote a piece called "Rainlight" which among its various elements followed the adventures of a very early internet troll - very early as this was before even the WWW. This trolling culminated in a FBI raid on a compound in Nebraska, armed invasion and mass suicide. So, similar to the Branch Davidian siege, but closer to Burgess' take on Jonestown.

So it isn't Burgess who riffed on Waco before it happened; it was me.

I was certainly ahead of the curve re the FBI mounting a siege, but there you go.