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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553052101
• ISBN13: 9780553052107
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.

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.