Chernobyl

by Frederik Pohl

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765375966
• ISBN13: 9780765375964
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Very good indeed

A totally gripping book. Written a very short time after the Chernobyl accident, this novel is a wonderful story about the people of that doomed town. I loved the way Pohl, a great SF writer, mixes the engineering details with the human drama.The political stuff in the book has been overshadowed by the unrealness what *really* happened in Russia after it has been written; but it's still a must-read, in my opinion.