Talk:Tunguska event in fiction

Cleanup needed
People wanted this kept, and from the looks of the AFD: were going to source it and clean it up. It's been a few weeks: very few edits have happened. This needs a bit of cleanup (so it's not list cruft/clutter). Frankly, if I dont see major improvements in a few weeks: it's going back to AFD. Not to sound harsh or rude: but I've seen many "promise to cleanup and improve", that just get ignored. If people care about the article (as they claimed in the AFD): then this shouldn't be an issue. I could do this myself: but I frankly don't have much interest in doing so. Perhaps I'm lazy: or perhaps I'm just too frustrated with false promises. Things take time: but it seems like people don't even seem to want to clean this up. RobJ1981 16:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Pynchon
I don't think that the description of Tunguska as it occurs in Pynchon's novel is quite accurate. Yes, a mysterious entity is distubed by an expedition to the North Pole, but it is transported back to a city in North America (probably intended to be New York), not Siberia. There is a suggestion in the novel that the event was the outcome of a disastrous experiment involving energy waves by the inventor Tesla; or that it was a deliberate attempt to discredit Tesla by those working in a similar field. Although it is some months since I read this exhausting novel, I also recall in it a suggestion that Tunguska was the result of an intrusion of so-called 'Trespassers' from another time or dimension into our world. It may also be worth remarking that, in a correspondence with the geophysical explanation for the event, the novel features an episode in which a man befriends a sentient piece of ball lightning (the novel in general is concerned throughout with themes of light and energy). The polar entity and Tunguska may be linked thematically, but it does not appear that they are as closely related as the contributor claims. (unsigned)

I am reading the novel right now, for the third time, and the contributor is enormously mistaken if he believes the entity is responsible for the Tunguska Event. Both episodes in the novel are separated by a span of several hundred pages and many years. I'm coming up on the Tunguska chapters so I will rewrite this section if nobody does it before me. Without question the summary on this page is totally inaccurate. 199.73.152.100 (talk) 18:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I have now changed the article to reflect the (vague) information Pynchon provides in his novel.199.73.152.100 (talk) 17:19, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Sci-fi short story
One intance of mention in popular fiction is not mentioned yet, which is a sci-fi short story, the only thing is I don't remember the title or author. One thing I do know is that it's at least 20 years old and features a prototype spaceship from earth destined to reach the end of the universe. Its crew suffers various relativity effects due to traveling near the speed of light, mainly consisting of changing size differences of their body limbs and in relation to the spaceship, while having left most galaxy clusters behind already, travelling through darker and darker space. Eventually, all crew members but one explode because the relativity effects on their bodies are like blowing up a balloon, and the last one in fever witnesses how they're suddenly back in an area with stars and crash on earth several hundred years before they started, thereby causing the Tunguska event. I also remember how the whole thing was explained as that they'd obviously "once crossed the entire universe" as if flying in a circle inside a round universe. --79.193.52.60 (talk) 20:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Stalker 2
I'm pretty sure that whoever wrote that down didn't know what he/she was talking about. Tunguska is in Siberia, Stalker games are set in Ukraine that's way to far apart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.97.64.70 (talk) 11:26, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Tunguska in Battlefield 2
Tunguska also appears in Battlefield 2 as the 2K22 Tunguska. It is a vehicle equipped with anti-aircraft autocannons. Should the article mention this occurrence? MCEmperor (talk) 14:17, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Urrrr...No? You should also know that the Tunguska AA platform is a real vehicle, referring to it via some computer game (especially battlefield...) is...ugh, its awful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.15.151.163 (talk) 13:15, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Possible New Entry
It is in marvel comics!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100B:B107:1C45:4C9D:3D11:D523:16B3 (talk) 15:09, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

I was looking at this and noticed that the book Goliath by Scott Westerfeld was not mentioned here, even though it does directly reference the Tunguska event -- the characters fly over the downed trees, even. I was thinking that perhaps it could be a new entry on the list of books that mention the Tunguska event.

1700 (talk) 20:10, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Per WP:IPCV, you'll need an independent source that discusses the reference to the Tunguska event within the book. Cheers! DonIago (talk) 23:54, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh, gotcha. Sorry for not responding sooner. Have a good day! 1700 (talk) 15:21, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
 * This rule is not fairly enforced  Only when u feel like it 76.125.84.46 (talk) 15:18, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree the Goliath entry should made.DMc75771 (talk) 19:39, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems nobody found a secondary source for it. DonIago (talk) 19:52, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Song titled "Tunguska Blast!"
This entry was deleted for lack of third party sources; I believe it is relevant to the page (music being popular culture), and there are plenty of sources.


 * German surf band The Kilaueas have a song titled "Tunguska Blast!" on their 2005 album "Profesor Volcanova" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ojmason (talk • contribs)


 * Please review WP:IPCV. The sources you provided here are not third-party sources that discuss the song in any significant detail. If there are plenty of sources, than it should be easy enough to provide sources that will meet the necessary criteria for inclusion. Also, please sign your posts on Talk pages by adding four tildes (~) to the end. DonIago (talk) 14:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

In videogames
In destroy all humans 2 the Tunguska event plays an important role in the game’s story.

The main villains of the game called the Blisk crashed their warship in 1908 and later took over Russia by establishing the Soviet Union and posing as their leaders. One off these if the main antagonist, Milenkov. The game series is also known for making fun of other real life conspiracy theories such as the moon landing hoax, area 51, the men in black, and the Roswell incident.

In call of duty zombies, the meteorite in Tunguska contained Element 115 which the substance that created the zombies, but is also the place where the map “Call of the dead” takes place on the Group 935 research base. 2A02:A213:8843:1B80:F0F9:8523:20A2:F7FE (talk) 23:55, 23 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Per WP:IPCV, you'll need a secondary source that discusses the Tunguska event in relation to these games. DonIago (talk) 03:04, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Secret Files : Tunguska is classic adventure game. The story heavily revolves around the Tunguska events of 1908. Pretty sure it should be added. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Files:_Tunguska