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JonnieCache
on Jan 29, 2015
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Gamma-ray bursts are a threat to life
Greg Egan's fantastic
Disaspora
begins with a GRB hitting earth. It isn't pretty. Hence the title. Best scifi I've ever read.
theoh
on Jan 29, 2015
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Actually the title is "Diaspora"... Nothing to do with disasters.
JonnieCache
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Admittedly I did make a typo there but the diaspora is motivated/necessitated by the disaster.
Udo
on Jan 29, 2015
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It's an interesting typo, also because disaster literally means "bad star".
atlantic
on Jan 29, 2015
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And the etymology of dis-aster is astrological: a negative event caused by an unfavourable planetary configuration, by "bad stars".
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