new novel: "full doomsday event"

[pynchonoid]

922 pages sounds like a great Xmas gift and holiday
project, to me.  I already pre-ordered a batch, price
is already down to $22 or something at Amazon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

"The Tunguska event was an explosion that occurred at
60°55′N 101°57′E, near the Podkamennaya
(Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Evenkia,
Siberia, at 7:17 a.m. on June 30, 1908.

The explosion was caused most probably by the airburst
of a meteorite or comet 6 to 10 kilometers (4–6 mi)
above the Earth's surface. The energy of the blast was
later estimated to be between 10 and 15 megaton TNT.
It felled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150
square kilometers (830 sq mi).

In recent history, the Tunguska event stands out as
one of the rare large-scale demonstrations that a full
doomsday event is a real possibility for the human
race." [...]

Contents


    * 1 Description
          o 1.1 Select Eyewitness Reports
    * 2 History
    * 3 Earth Impactor hypothesis
          o 3.1 Meteoroid airburst
          o 3.2 Blast patterns
          o 3.3 Asteroid or comet?
    * 4 Unexplained phenomena
    * 5 Speculative hypotheses
          o 5.1 Black hole
          o 5.2 Antimatter
          o 5.3 Electromagnetism
          o 5.4 UFOs
          o 5.5 The Wardenclyffe Tower
    * 6 Tunguska event in fiction
    * 7 References
    * 8 Books on Tunguska
    * 9 See also
    * 10 External links


....wikipedia article picture looks a bit like the
Vineland cover....




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