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Chernobyl

The Hugo and Nebula award-winning author presents a "gripping and vivid" fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history (Kirkus).

Chernobyl: The very name conjures the terror of nuclear catastrophe. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused an explosion that spewed radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million had potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the surrounding city became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. When the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, the scenario many had feared became a sudden and terrifying reality.

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. This fictional account vividly brings to life the most tragic nuclear event in human history, only one of two level-7 nuclear accidents, along with the Fukushima disaster of 2011.

Frederik Pohl

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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