Chernobyl
Hardcover first edition cover
Author	Frederik Pohl
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Historical fiction
Published	August 1, 1987
Publisher	Spectra
ISBN	9780553052107

Chernobyl is a novel by Frederik Pohl published in 1987. It is based on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Plot summary

Chernobyl is a novel in which the characters must decide whether to use hastily produced substandard materials or to delay the reactor schedule while it is already overdue.^[1]

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed Chernobyl for White Dwarf #98, and stated that "Avoiding Evil Empire stereotypes, Pohl does his own country a service by reminding us that lots of Americans detest the knee-jerk, anti-commie paranoia which sometimes seems to be the US national stereotype. The technical background is all there too, in palatable form."^[1]

Reviews

Review by Dan Chow (1987) in Locus, #318 July 1987
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1987) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #96 September 1987
Review by Algis Budrys (1987) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1987
Review by John Newsinger (1988) in Vector 142
Review by Andy Robertson (1988) in Interzone, #23 Spring 1988
Review by Andrew Andrews (1988) in Thrust, #31, Fall 1988

References

^ ^a ^b Langford, Dave (February 1988). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 98. Games Workshop. p. 19.

v t e Works by Frederik Pohl
Undersea Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	Undersea Quest (1954) Undersea Fleet (1956) Undersea City (1958)
Heechee Saga	Gateway (1977) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) The Annals of the Heechee (1987) The Gateway Trip (1990) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)
Eschaton trilogy	The Other End of Time (1996) The Siege of Eternity (1997) The Far Shore of Time (1999)
Mars series	Man Plus (1976) Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T. Thomas)
Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)	Farthest Star (1975) Wall Around a Star (1983)
The Starchild Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	The Reefs of Space (1964) Starchild (1965) Rogue Star (1969)
Space Merchants series	The Space Merchants (1953) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) The Merchants' War (1984) Venus, Inc. (1985 Omnibus) (this is a two-in-one volume containing The Space Merchants and The Merchants' War)
Other	Search the Sky (1954) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Preferred Risk (1955) (with Lester del Rey) Slave Ship (1956) Presidential Year (1958) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Wolfbane (1959) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Drunkard's Walk (1960) A Plague of Pythons (1964) The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) Day Million (1970) The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975) Jem (1979) The Cool War (1981) Syzygy (1981) Starburst (1982) The Years of the City (1984) Black Star Rising (1985) The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986) Terror (1986) Chernobyl (1987) Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson) The Day the Martians Came (1988) Narabedla Ltd. (1988) Homegoing (1989) The World at the End of Time (1990) Outnumbering the Dead (1990) Stopping at Slowyear (1991) The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Williamson) Mining the Oort (1992) The Voices of Heaven (1994) O Pioneer! (1998) The Last Theorem (2008) (with Arthur C. Clarke) All the Lives He Led (2011)