Chernobyl by Pohl, Frederik
Chernobyl by Pohl, Frederik

Chernobyl

Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear...
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Author: Frederik Pohl
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Chernobyl by Pohl, Frederik

Chernobyl

$49.14
Chernobyl by Pohl, Frederik

Chernobyl

$49.14
Author: Frederik Pohl
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million suffered potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the city around the plant became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. Before the disaster at the Chernobyl plant, nuclear catastrophe had been only a fear, a threat. But when the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, those fears were suddenly all too real.

Frederik Pohl's novel about this disaster was written months after the tragic events. He had the cooperation of many people inside the USSR with access to technical information and first-person accounts of the events of what is still the most tragic nuclear event in human history and only one of two level-7 nuclear accidents, along with the Fukushima disaster of 2011.

This is fiction, but it is the most riveting, realistic account of what happened that has ever been written. It is also a cautionary tale that reminds us of the dangers of nuclear power plants and the terrible devastation they can unleash.

Including a new Afterword by the author, this is an important book.

Author: Frederik Pohl
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 06/17/2014
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.12w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780765375964

About the Author
Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) was one of science fiction's most important authors. Among his many novels are Gateway, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus SF Award, and the Nebula Award, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, which was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and Jem, which won the 1980 National Book Award in Science Fiction. He also collaborated on classic science fiction novels including The Space Merchants with Cyril M. Kornbluth. Pohl was an award-winning editor of Galaxy and If, a book editor at Bantam, and served as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by SFWA in 1993, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


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