Bewilderment
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It had nine moons and two suns, one small and red, the other large and blue. That made for three kinds of day of different lengths, four kinds of sunset and sunrise, scores of different eclipses, and countless flavors of dusk and night.
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I loved Powers’ descriptions of exoplanets that might be harboring life. I didn’t count, but there must have been 20 of them, each with an unusual wrinkle that Powers extrapolates to paint an incredible variety of worlds and living things. Does anyone know if astrobioligists really do have data to support some of these vignettes?
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