I was struck especially by the resonances of Spock's death scene in New Who. RTD has done a couple of scenes which feel to me now as if they are conscious references to it - the Ten/Jack conversation in Utopia (though of course Jack isn't actually dying, which is partly the point) and Ten's own self-sacrifice in The End of Time II. Am I imagining this? Are there other famous examples of protagonists being killed by radiation poisoning on the other side of a transparent screen which I have missed?
2010 films 4) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
I was struck especially by the resonances of Spock's death scene in New Who. RTD has done a couple of scenes which feel to me now as if they are conscious references to it - the Ten/Jack conversation in Utopia (though of course Jack isn't actually dying, which is partly the point) and Ten's own self-sacrifice in The End of Time II. Am I imagining this? Are there other famous examples of protagonists being killed by radiation poisoning on the other side of a transparent screen which I have missed?
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The Power, by Naomi Alderman
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The Story of English in 100 Words, by David Crystal
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Brave New Worlds, ed. John Joseph Adams
Second paragraph of third story ("Ten with a Flag", by Joseph Paul Haines): It only took him a couple of seconds to connect to the traffic web.…
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