Blackout (Elsberg novel)
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Cover of the German edition (2012). | |
| Author | Marc Elsberg |
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| Original title | Blackout – Morgen ist es zu spät |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Disaster |
| Genre | thriller |
| Publisher | Black Swan |
Publication date | 2012 |
Published in English | February 2017 |
| Pages | 350 |
| Awards | Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2012[1] |
| ISBN | 978-1784161897 (first edition in English) |
| Followed by | Zero – Sie wissen, was du tust |
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Blackout - Tomorrow Will Be Too Late is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg.
Published in German in 2012, it has been translated in fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide.[2] The English version will be published in February 2017.
To be realistic, the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.[3]
Description
The novel starts with an electricity grids collapse across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster.[2][3] The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc.[3][4]
It is describes by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller".[2]
Notes and references
- ↑ In the category "Unterhaltung" (entertainment).
- 1 2 3 Blackout (Marc Elsberg), Penguin Books (page visited on 3 September 2016).
- 1 2 3 (French) Blaise Gauquelin, "Coût de la panne. Marc Elsberg plonge l’Europe dans le noir avec l’aide de hackers", Libération, 6 May 2015 (page visited on 4 September 2016).
- ↑ Nico Fried, "Innenminister in der Kritik - De Maizière stellt Zivilschutzkonzept vor", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 24 August 2016 (page visited on 4 September 2016). In this article, the German Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière, cites Marc Elsberg's book Blackout to illustrate the vulnerability of the power supply infrastructure.