(mild, mid-book spoilers for Project Hail Mary)
In Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, present-day Earth is faced with an unprecedented crisis. A space-borne bacteria species, quickly designated “astrophage”, has been discovered in our solar system. The astrophage bacteria are perfect absorbers...
I have some ideas for Hey Now, You're an All-Star, Only Shooting Stars Break the Mold, and It's a Cool Place and they Say it Gets Colder.
edit: and I Need to Get Myself Away from This Place
LOL. That sounds like Nazi-conquered countries conveniently forgetting the "whole antisemitism thing". Hard to imagine a communist country which is not aggressively anti-theist.
Earth was dying, the death blow inflicted by a particle accelerator accident. The only way to preserve humanity was to evacuate Earth. The same new physics uncovered by the accelerator accident also gave us the knowledge to build faster-than-light Null Drives. Enormous Orion drive starships...