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[neonlyte]

First time novelist Chris Cleave (32) had his book launch pulled on Thursday. Title: Incendiary. Subject: Terrorist attack in central London (Arsenal football ground to be exact but don't tell Lou).

Of course the book had to be pulled, though they've not been able to cancel the advertising in this weekends pre-printed newspaer supplements, apology ads have been inserted in the main papers. CC must nevertheless feel gutted having come so far, only to see an unimaginable coincidence defeat his ambition.

 

[The_Fool]

I am sympathetic for his pain. I also worry about his feelings when the book finally does get marketed, which I am sure it will. If it were me, whether it did well or poorly, I would always have concerns about whether events affected how well the book was received and not the quality of the story. And if it did well, I would have guilt, wondering if my success was built on the pain of others.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Amen, Fool. Poor guy.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

That's such a shame. This only happens to authors with enough guts to write about difficult subjects.

Ballard must be having a weird feeling as well, because of Millennium People. Talk about premonition.

 

[CrazyyAngel]

Sad day when reality is faster then fiction ...

 

[CharleyH]

That's such a shame. This only happens to authors with enough guts to write about difficult subjects.

Ballard must be having a weird feeling as well, because of Millennium People. Talk about premonition.

He already sold half-millions.

 

[erise]

Sad, but the reasons for it is of course eve sadder.

Didn't something similar happen in -01? I think I read about an action movie that never got finished or released. It supposedly featured terrorists blowing up a scyscraper.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Sad, but the reasons for it is of course eve sadder.

Didn't something similar happen in -01? I think I read about an action movie that never got finished or released. It supposedly featured terrorists blowing up a scyscraper.

I think that was Swarznegger's (however that's spelled) movie, Collateral Damage (about a New York firefighter whose family is killed by a terrorist bomb). It was released later the next year.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Sad, but the reasons for it is of course eve sadder.

Didn't something similar happen in -01? I think I read about an action movie that never got finished or released. It supposedly featured terrorists blowing up a scyscraper.

The idea of crashing a hijacked airliner into some structure has been a well-known disaster scenario for years and years among engineers and public safety people. In fact, the containment building in a nuclear reactor has to be designed and built to withstand exactly just such an attack, and these specs have been in place for a long time.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

The idea of crashing a hijacked airliner into some structure has been a well-known disaster scenario for years and years among engineers and public safety people. In fact, the containment building in a nuclear reactor has to be designed and built to withstand exactly just such an attack, and these specs have been in place for a long time.

Tom Clancy used that at the end of the book "Debt of Honor" when a distraught Japanese airline pilot crashes a jumbo jet into the US capitol, whiping out the president and most of congress.

The difference is that he beat 9/11 by about 10 years.

But if memory serves, I believe congress actually summoned him to testify at the 9/11 hearings.