The accident at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exposed tens of millions to radiation and threatened all of Europe, occurred shortly after the publication of Feixu Taiwan and seemed to echo the events of the book.
《廢墟台灣》出版不久，蘇聯的車諾比核電廠發生大爆炸，成千上萬的人遭到感染並威脅到整個歐洲，情況就像書中所寫。