If you're a fan of hard science fiction, then Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg may appeal to you.
It's the story of a race of intelligent beings living on the surface of a neutron star; the star is careening through the solar system at the time of the story.
(I mistakenly posted this in the Tarantino thread this morning. And I had already had two cups of coffee, so I don't have a good explanation for how that happened.)
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