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A GRB plays an important part in the novel Diaspora by Greg Egan. I'd recommend it if you're interested in learning what would actually happen were we to be cl
by Splines 16y ago
A GRB plays an important part in the novel Diaspora by Greg Egan. I'd recommend it if you're interested in learning what would actually happen were we to be closer. (Without being a trained astrophysicist, the events in the novel seemed plausible, so I assume Mr. Egan did his homework).
- JonnieCache 16y agoJust read this book. One of the most mind-melting things I've ever read. Every other page introduces a new concept even more staggering than the last. It deserves its own thread here to be honest. It's about a posthuman society's reaction to a GRB in their vicinity, and its basically one long thought experiment about the various consequences of the human race abandoning corporeal existence.