Wild card: the Sun kisses the Earth

Aurora Borealis over Esja, Reykjavík (Photo credit: omblod)

In “1859s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth,” Matthew Lasar writes an evocative history of a past ‘wild card’ event – 1859’s massive solar flare that created auroral storms visible over much of the Earth.

If you want a future projection of this scenario, you have no farther to look than Roger Zelazny‘s Flare (one of his later novels and, sorry, Amber fans, not part of any series).