Book Review Roundup: Poser And The (former) Planet Pluto

Book Review Roundup: Poser And The (Former) Planet Pluto

"HOW I KILLED PLUTO: And Why It Had It Coming" By Mike BrownThe New York Times"How I Killed Pluto" is a strange artifact, an unlikely hybrid of Dennis Overbye's "Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos" and Anne Lamott's "Operating Instructions." It's not a book about the former ninth planet -- or even planetary astronomy -- lightly salted with Brown's family life.

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