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Atomic Heart takes place on the grounds of Facility 3826, the Soviet Union's foremost scientific research hub in an alternate history 1955, located in the Kazakh SSR.In 1936, scientist Dmitry Sechenov developed a liquidized programmable module called the Polymer, sparking massive technological breakthroughs in the fields of energy and robotics in the USSR and freeing much of the populace from ...
Pulling Through, by Dean Ing; first half of the book is a novel on a family surviving a nuclear blast, the second half is a non-fiction survival guide; Red Alert, by Peter George; Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois; Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban; The School for Atheists by Arno Schmidt; Second Ending, by James White
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours.
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The novel follows Bobby Western, a salvage diver, across the Gulf of Mexico and the American South. [2] [1] Western is haunted by his father's contributions to the development of the atomic bomb, [2] and tormented by his inability to save his sister Alicia—the protagonist of the novel's proto-sequel, Stella Maris—from suicide, which happens a decade before The Passenger takes place. [3]
She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. [3] Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. [4] She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, [3] but left before graduation. She started ...
The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy , consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun , The Last War in the World and The World Set Free .
Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting. [1]