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Adam Frank

Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

5 books on the record · 1 Jul 2014 – 31 Dec 2014 · @AdamFrank4

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

#2. Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey. OMG, I am so excited! The next installment of The Expanse series has just been published.

on npr.org · 1 Jul 2014 · Report

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The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey

Together with a few novellas, these books explore one of the most fully fleshed out science fiction universes I have ever encountered.

on npr.org · 1 Jul 2014 · Report

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The Martian by Andy Weir

#1. The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir. This book is a complete surprise.

on npr.org · 1 Jul 2014 · Report

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The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Since then I have been slowly working through this life-changing work told in prose as sharp and clear as the mountain vistas it describes.

on npr.org · 1 Jul 2014 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.