• The Exclusion Zone

The Exclusion Zone

by Alexis von Konigslow

May 20, 2025 | ISBN 978-1-998408-16-0 | 224 Pages

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She would harness fear. And this terrifying place would help her do it. Renya, a scientist who studies how people react to fear, flees a troubled marriage to conduct research on the scientists working in the “exclusion zone” around Chernobyl. In the eerily silent forests surrounding the research station, she finds more is haunting her than the dangers of radiation exposure. As she gathers data from her colleagues and probes historical records of the Chernobyl disaster, unsettling questions rise to the surface. Who is funding her research? Why are all the scientists’ findings off? And what do those who stalk… Read more

Advance Praise

“The Exclusion Zone is a quietly terrifying novel that evokes both the horror of the recent past and the very real threat to any human future. This is a work about fear: what it is, what it does to us, how we try to hide it and can’t. And yet love is here too, and friendship, and forests, still growing, and beauty even in what is poisoned, reminding us that we have to live in the ruin of what we’ve made as best we can, for as long as we can, if only to bear witness.” – Kate Cayley, author of Householders and How You Were Born