Tunguska event in fiction
The Tunguska event—an enormous explosion in a remote region of Siberia on 30 June 1908—has appeared in many works of fiction.
History
The event had a long-lasting influence on disaster stories featuring comets.[1]
Cause
While the event is generally held to have been caused by a
Effect
In
microbial life to Earth.[4] Ice from the impact turns out to have peculiar properties in Vladimir Sorokin's 2002 novel Ice and Jacek Dukaj's 2007 novel likewise titled Ice.[12]
See also
References
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- ^ OCLC 38373691.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-97460-8.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-319-42604-4.
- ISBN 978-0-87338-604-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7556-0129-5.
- ^ Britt, Robert Roy (2004-08-12). "Russian Alien Spaceship Claims Raise Eyebrows, Skepticism". Space.com. Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ISBN 978-0-7137-2493-6.
Post-World War 2, aerial photos of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were compared with photos of the flattened Siberian taiga. They were stunningly similar. It took less than six months for someone to draw the obvious conclusion. A. Kasantsev, a science-fiction author, published a short story in January 1946 in which he offered serious speculation that an alien spacecraft powered by nuclear motors had blown up above Tunguska.
- ^ Westfahl, Gary; Stevens, Geoffrey (2023). "Schweigende Stern, Der". In Clute, John; Langford, David; Sleight, Graham (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.). Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ^ Clute, John (2022). "DeSmedt, Bill". In Clute, John; Langford, David; Sleight, Graham (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ Clute, John (2022). "Bensen, D R". In Clute, John; Langford, David; Sleight, Graham (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ Petzer, Tatjana (September 2013). "Re-Writing the Tunguska Event: The icy imagination of Vladimir Sorokin and Jacek Dukaj". Archives of the Arctic. Ice, Entropy and Memory.