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[Linda Rouse]

I wonder if Elena was inspired by Karl Schroeder's scifi short story 
called The Dragon of Pripyat written in 1999? A strange tale of 
Chernobyl 'terrorism'  -  the story starts with the protagonist 
riding his motorbike through the streets of Chernobyl with a geiger 
counter looking for signs of life...
Ironically I read it only a week or so ago...
Linda

At 11:22 AM +1000 28/3/04, Antony Barry wrote:
>On 28/03/2004, at 10:15 AM, Fred Pilcher wrote:
>
>>  But sometimes something like this comes along.
>>
>>  http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
>
>Creepy!  Science fiction becomes reality. The shots of the 
>kindergarden at the end were so sad. The idea of people naively 
>going up on a roof to watch the "beautiful shining" glowing from the 
>top of the Chernobyl reactor building gave me the shivers. It would 
>have been cerenko radiation. Ironically Cerenko was a Russian.
>
>I watched the remake of "On the beach" on the TV a few days ago. It 
>didn't have that terrible scene at the end that the first film did 
>of an empty street (Flinders st??) in melbourne. The photos at this 
>site have the same feel.
>
>Years ago I was told by a friend who watched the first film at a 
>theatre in Melbourne. He says at the end there was dead silence and 
>nobody moved for what seemed like minutes
>
>Tony
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