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* M. K. Wren's The Phoenix Trilogy takes place a thousand years after a Class 1 Pandemic wipes out most of the planetary civilization. In the chapters covering the historic re-building of human society, almost all of the emerging powerhouse civilizations are from remote areas of the planet. The planetary government winds up being centered in Australia.
* In John Barnes' ''Mother of All Storms'' set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], a UN sanctioned nuclear strike on an illegal [[Balkanize Me|Siberian]] military base sets off a chain of events that culminates in a series of super-sized hurricanes that ravage coastlines on aglobal scale and completely wipe out entire nations (Bangladesh, Japan, Micronesia) as well as the state of Hawaii and cause roughly two billion deaths but thanks to the intervention of {{spoiler|the US' last astronaut raised to a godlike state of cyberconciousness}} civilization as a whole and the Unted States in particular are preserved with the coastal areas due to become new frontiers.
* ''[[Station Eleven]]'', by [[Emily St. John Mandel]], begins with a pandemic that kills off over 99 per cent of humanity. Civilization takes a major hit because there aren't enough people to maintain an industrialized society, but luxuries like touring acting troupes still exist.
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