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Greg Egan's fantastic Disaspora begins with a GRB hitting earth. It isn't pretty. Hence the title. Best scifi I've ever read.



Actually the title is "Diaspora"... Nothing to do with disasters.


Admittedly I did make a typo there but the diaspora is motivated/necessitated by the disaster.


It's an interesting typo, also because disaster literally means "bad star".


And the etymology of dis-aster is astrological: a negative event caused by an unfavourable planetary configuration, by "bad stars".




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