Talk:Trinitite

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I would like opinions on adding a "use in popular fiction/pop culture" sub-section to this page to include the substance's apperance in the novel Generation-X by Douglas Coupland.

In the novel the character Dag, brings a mason jar full of trinitite as a gift for Claire and subsequently drops the jar causing it to break and spill after Claire's strong and apparently unexpected reaction once Dag explained what it was. If it is relevant to this addition, Couplands story is already well-documented and its contributions discussed in releated pages. The most enduring aspect of the novel is the title itself which popularized the phrase Generation X in America and Canada (though he acknowledges that it was orginally mentioned as a designation for a class system by a non-fiction writer whose name eludes me and was orginally used in the book in the reverse "an x generation") as well as other neogoloisms such as 'McJob'.

I have not added this to the article as it is in my experience the only known example of trinitite being mentioned in novel and am unsure of adding a single sub-section for a single reference.

Personally, the substance fascinated me when I read about it in Generation X and until recenetly after doing a google search (which also took a fair bit of time due to my error of searching for it under the name 'trinite' instead of the correct 'trinitite') I was unsure if it was an example of artistic liscense or an actual substance formed at the above ground test site. Helioglyph 07:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Trinitite is also featured prominently in "The Green Glass Sea" by Ellen Klages ISBN 0670061344, in fact giving it its title. An earlier short story of the same title can be found at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040906/greenglass-f.shtml

Hstolte 16:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)