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Sounds like the plot of a B movie...

by kleiba2 5mo ago

rectangleboy 5mo ago
Something like this came up in Robert R. McCammon's 1987 book Swan Song[1], one of the first novels to win the Bram Stoker award[2] for Best Novel (alongside Stephen King's Misery that year). One of the survivors finds a glass ring (something like trinitite) among the post-nuclear-blast rubble of Saks Fifth Avenue[3] in New York and sees visions of the future (or something) through it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award#External_links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award#External_lin... [3] my memories of this book may be embellishing this a bit....
- Schiendelman 5mo ago
  Swan Song, coincidentally, is getting a pilot as a TV series. I'm not sure if it's gotten stuck in development hell or if it's actually going somewhere, it's only been 18 months or so since screenwriting started.
- jdkoeck 5mo ago
  Interesting! Is it any good? Did it age well?
0xEF 5mo ago
Or the start of a new cult? Which could also result in a B movie, I guess.
TurdF3rguson 5mo ago
For God's sake man! You must learn to shield your thoughts from the crystals!
asimovDev 5mo ago
Found footage movie, combining Trinity Test and Philadelphia Experiment maybe? I think it has legs
meffmadd 5mo ago
…or basically the plot of twin peaks
CodeArtisan 5mo ago
The video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R is happening in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area filled with super natural anomalies and artifacts due to the radiation. A legend/rumor says that there is a special crystal granting any wish at the center of the zone, inside the power plant's sarcophagus. The existence of the crystal can't be verified because a cultist faction, The monolith, is preventing anyone to reach the center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Cher...

Sounds like the plot of a B movie...

by kleiba2 5mo ago

Sounds like the plot of a B movie...

Something like this came up in Robert R. McCammon's 1987 book Swan Song[1], one of the first novels to win the Bram Stoker award[2] for Best Novel (alongside Stephen King's Misery that year). One of the survivors finds a glass ring (something like trinitite) among the post-nuclear-blast rubble of Saks Fifth Avenue[3] in New York and sees visions of the future (or something) through it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award#External_links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award#External_lin... [3] my memories of this book may be embellishing this a bit....

Schiendelman 5mo ago
Swan Song, coincidentally, is getting a pilot as a TV series. I'm not sure if it's gotten stuck in development hell or if it's actually going somewhere, it's only been 18 months or so since screenwriting started.
jdkoeck 5mo ago
Interesting! Is it any good? Did it age well?

0xEF 5mo ago

Or the start of a new cult? Which could also result in a B movie, I guess.

TurdF3rguson 5mo ago

For God's sake man! You must learn to shield your thoughts from the crystals!

asimovDev 5mo ago

Found footage movie, combining Trinity Test and Philadelphia Experiment maybe? I think it has legs

meffmadd 5mo ago

…or basically the plot of twin peaks

CodeArtisan 5mo ago

The video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R is happening in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area filled with super natural anomalies and artifacts due to the radiation. A legend/rumor says that there is a special crystal granting any wish at the center of the zone, inside the power plant's sarcophagus. The existence of the crystal can't be verified because a cultist faction, The monolith, is preventing anyone to reach the center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Cher...