Thus, when he describes how our society would crumble down after a few days without electricity, you might understand that I got worried. The author is - at least on this end - very well documented. The procedures performed, at least on the IT side are spot on. The IT related parts, the electronics and the security (or lack thereof) are horrifyingly well described. You might remember this sentence Matt Damon said in the the movie " The Martian":It feels kind of the same in this book.īehind the novel with its suspense, adventure and weird situations, there is a solid foundation of science, engineering and (IT-)security. I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this" Matt Damon in The Martian Let's science the shit out of this "So in the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option. This is all I can say without revealing crucial details of the stories. So he decides to investigate on his own, leading us to discovering what happened and exactly how. But no-one, not even the police, is willing to listen to him. He accidentally finds an information that he deems important. The story follows the footsteps of an ex-hacker during the blackout. And when they woke up, the power was still off. By the time people realized what had happened, the only lights that were left, were the spotlights of cars carefully making their ways through the chaos. One day, all the traffic lights went black, creating an initial chaos. This is the premise of this fantastic story: Blackout by Marc Elsberg. We would go be overwhelmed by our primitive drive to survive! What would happen? Our infrastructure would fall down hard. Imagine what would happen if it lasted for days instead of hours. Now imagine what would happen if the whole continent went black. but it lasted a few hours and was only in our city block. I think there was a dark evening with candles somewhere in my childhood. When was the last time you experienced a real blackout? Years? I can't remember mine.
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