When Becca Babcock started to write about a character whose life was shaped by the threat of nuclear disaster, she thought she was writing about the past.
The threat of the Cold War and the ripple effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine loom large over Jessica Manchaky’s life in Babcock’s latest novel, Some There are Fearless . Growing up on a northern Alberta military base, Jessica is a child when she hears news of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the disappearance of her Ukrainian relatives.
Like the character in her novel, Babcock grew up in Cold Lake, Alta., but since 2005, has lived in Nova Scotia. She wrote Some There are Fearless during the summer of 2020, not knowing that two years later Russia would invade Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin would threaten to use nuclear weapons and the world would once again live with the real threat of nuclear war.The spark for Babcock’s novel came after she watched a television series on the Chernobyl accident.
In addition to Some There Are Fearless, Babcock has published a short story collection, Every Second Weekend and a novel, One Who Has Been Here Before . He hitchhiked across Canada and volunteered on organic farms in British Columbia. He was in search of a good home, love and community, and a source of income to pay off his student loans.
“It has been estimated that anywhere from four to twelve per cent of chief executive officers are psychopaths. I am one of them,” Moulton writes in the prologue of Hung out to Die . “Many people believe that science and religion are moving in alternate directions. And at first glance, it would appear so. This refers to the days of classical science. However, these two areas of human interest may not be so different after all, just mostly misunderstood or mislabeled.”
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