When life and fiction collide

[Trappin]

When life and fiction collide. Submit your own fiction-life samples. Russian writers literally and figuratively previewed the accident at Chernobyl.

In chronological order. Lev Gumilev tried to explain human consciousness and spirituality via scientific means. An early form of Eurasianism. I can't find his passionarity chart which takes on an aspect of alien-like chernobyl "exclusion zones." Later, in 1962, Two Russian writers (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky,) created the science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. This piece of fiction is strikingly familiar to Chernobyl. 1979 Stalker the film by Andrei Tarkovsky. Stalker the game is familiar to gamers. Book Area X by Jeff Vandermeer. Uncanny-strange fiction. Vandermeer uses a "exclusion zone" to test human understanding of things conceptually foreign to humans. His secular use of techno-scripture is quite interesting and creepy.

Not long after the No. 4 nuclear power plant exploded the townspeople of Pripriat gathered on the bridge and looked directly at the stream of gamma rays ejecting from the open containment vessel - many of these eye witnesses described the light as other-worldly and angelic in nature ( as if angels were flying out of the NPP.)

Lev Gumilev: http://pictures.hypermart.net/theory.htm
Roadside Picnic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
Stalker (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
Chernobyl: https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q
Stalker(game): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K ... _Chernobyl
Kid of Speed: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752442-area-x

[shubla]

Well I went to Japan and I felt like I was inside a Chinese cartoon for the whole time!!

[Miss_Min]

Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler features a plot (by someone seeking control over fossil fuel production) to blow up the twin towers of the New York World Trade Centre. It was published in the summer of 2001.