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The last grafs bring to mind Arthur C. Clarke's Hugo-winning 1955 short story The Star. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story) htt

• arethuza 8y ago
  It reminded me of the meeting location at the start of The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks. [I seem to remember it was a sliver of a planet held around an exploding star used as a meeting location - largely because doing that kind of thing is cool if you are godlike AIs].
  • arethuza 8y ago
    "The two craft met within the blast-shadow of the planetary fragment called Ablate, a narrow twisted scrue of rock three thousand kilometres long and shaped like the hole in a tornado." https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-hydrogen-sonata/ https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-hydrogen-sonat...
• piker 8y ago
  Available here: https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf