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Blackout (Elsberg novel)
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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".[2]
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Author | Marc Elsberg |
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Original title | Blackout – Morgen ist es zu spät |
Language | German |
Subject | Power outage |
Genre | thriller |
Publisher | Black Swan |
Publication date | 2012 |
Published in English | 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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Published in German in 2012, as of 2016[update] it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide.[2] The English version was published in 2017.[2]
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.[3]