Need help finding a book I read as a teenager. It involved teens with weird powers including the power to reverse entropy. [more inside]
posted by Axle on Jul 21, 2008 - 2 answers

I'm working on a short story, a sort of parallel to Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven, that involves the Sun going nova, and its effects on Earth's last minutes/hours/days. I'm starting to wonder if his description of what would happen if the Sun went nova is 100% accurate, so I'd like to pick it apart. Secondarily, what would happen if the sun turned into a red giant, instead? [more inside]
posted by Merdryn on Nov 1, 2006 - 29 answers

How close would a Near-Earth Supernova have to be to Earth to cause immediate surface effects? And what would those effects be? [more inside]
posted by Chanther on Dec 28, 2005 - 11 answers

Surviving a supernova... [more inside]
posted by Rothko on Aug 22, 2005 - 11 answers