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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.

• theoh 12y ago
  Actually the title is "Diaspora"... Nothing to do with disasters.
  • JonnieCache 12y ago
    Admittedly I did make a typo there but the diaspora is motivated/necessitated by the disaster.
    • Udo 12y ago
      It's an interesting typo, also because disaster literally means "bad star".
      • atlantic 12y ago
        And the etymology of dis-aster is astrological: a negative event caused by an unfavourable planetary configuration, by "bad stars".