Английская Википедия:Blackout (Elsberg novel)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox book Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg, described by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller".[1]
Published in German in 2012, Шаблон:As of it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide.[1] The English version was published in 2017.[1]
The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.[2]
Plot
The novel starts with a collapse of electrical grids across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster.[1][2] The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc.[2][3] A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. While doing so he himself becomes a hunted person as officials find suspicious e-mails sent from his laptop and think that he is involved.
Film adaptation
The novel is currently being adapted into a miniseries starring Moritz Bleibtreu, directed by Oliver Rihs and Lancelot von Naso and is scheduled to begin filming in fall 2020.[4]
See also
References
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Blackout (Marc Elsberg), Penguin Books (page visited on 3 September 2016).
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:In lang 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 (accessed 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.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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