{"product_id":"chernobyl-9780765375964","title":"Chernobyl","description":"\u003cp\u003eChernobyl: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrederik 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding a new Afterword by the author, this is an important book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederik Pohl\u003c\/b\u003e (1919-2013) was one of science fiction's most important authors. Among his many novels are \u003ci\u003eGateway\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus SF Award, and the Nebula Award, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Blue Event Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and \u003ci\u003eJem\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1980 National Book Award in Science Fiction. He also collaborated on classic science fiction novels including \u003ci\u003eThe Space Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e with Cyril M. Kornbluth. Pohl was an award-winning editor of \u003ci\u003eGalaxy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIf\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845196878098,"sku":"9780765375964","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d042a9f-f0ec-4354-b556-7dbb082cabb9.jpg?v=1737343606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chernobyl-9780765375964","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}