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Elizabeth Tasker

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Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo.

Her research explores how stars and planets form by building mini universes inside her computer. She is a keen blogger, feeling that there is an equally great story in a trip across the world as there is in making use of a public bathroom. This ideology was confirmed when she won the 'Leap Local' travel writing awards in 2010 for an article on Japanese toilets.

Her popular science book, 'The Planet Factory', was published in September 2017 (November 2017 in the USA) by Bloomsbury Sigma. Her science writing has also appeared in Scientific American, Astronomy Magazine, NExSS Many Worlds, Nautilus, space.com and the ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 507 ratings · 77 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth 4.05 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Can We Trust a Handful of Grains to Tell Us About the Early Earth? A Look at the Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample

The Hayabusa2 sample return capsule returning to Earth. The bright streak in the sky is the capsule, shock heated as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The bright lights on the ground are buildings. (JAXA)

In the early hours of December 6, 2020, what appeared to be a shooting star blazed across the sky above the Woomera desert in South Australia. The source was the sample return capsule from JAXA’s

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Elizabeth Tasker and 4376 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: "I had been wondering where my cat was when the phone rang. It was a woman offering to have no strings sex with me. I made some non-committal remarks to her and put the receiver down. I hate those cold callers. I had nothing to do that day, or any oth" Read more of this review »
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Elizabeth Tasker rated a book it was ok The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Unemployed man with zero drive boils pasta and meets strangers who instantly overshare their traumatic life story in ever more unhinged monologues. Women appear. Exclusively defined by someone's extremely specific sexual fetishes. Murakami is a well ...more
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Elizabeth Tasker made a comment on Sarah’s review of The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial – from three of Australia's finest writers, including the winner of the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize " How is this is a book already?! "
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Elizabeth Tasker rated a book it was amazing Rotherweird (Rotherweird #1) by Andrew Caldecott	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Due to a secret buried in history, Rotherweird is a self-governing town where very few new comers are ever welcome. The story is a fantasy mystery, with an original plot and a large group of key characters rather than a single protagonist. I thought t ...more
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Elizabeth Tasker rated a book really liked it Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
After seemingly accidentally murdering his master, Charles the robotic valet leaves his employment and attempts to fulfil the next required task. But beyond the walls of the mansion, he finds a world in ruins for both humans and robots. Equally inadv ...more
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Elizabeth Tasker and 13 other people liked Sarah's review of Martyr!: "I struggled with this. For some very personal reasons, and then for a deep-seated hatred of a lazy plot device. I will start by saying that while I award this one singular star for plot/ contents, I will give it four for writing which is how we have a" Read more of this review »
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Elizabeth Tasker rated a book liked it Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) by Anne Rice	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3.5 stars. I wanted to love this book more, as Anne Rice's work is a classic in the genre of vampire story telling. However, I found Louis's inability to be anything other than depressed and moody incredibly wearing. He likes neither past, present, n ...more
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Elizabeth Tasker rated a book liked it All the Wicked Girls by Chris Whitaker (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
"All the wicked girls" is well written, with stylistic writing that adds to the atmosphere of the tale and a slow, steady reveal of the storyline. However, I struggled to connect with any of the characters because the situation is wholly depressing! ...more
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Elizabeth Tasker rated a book really liked it What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This tale consists of five nearly independent short stories of people who have lost their path in life. The ways in which their lives have gone off track are highly relatable: one young woman took one of the only job offers she received once she fini ...more
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Elizabeth Tasker wants to read Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain by Rebecca Charbonneau	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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